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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Iwata 'TURNED down Natal tech' back in 2007 --Good decision or not? (rumor)

Paperdiego on 27 January 2010
--OkeyDokey-- said:
Paperdiego said:

so you think Microsoft will be able to make natal a success even after having nintendo, the gaming innovator, turn down the tech years before mircosoft even knew about it?

 

Nintendo turned down discs... how did that end again?

with the lowest piracy rate of any console at the time.

 

 



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Reasonable on 27 January 2010

Taking this at face value it was a good move for Nintendo. This doesn't mean it won't be a good move for MS though, just that it wasn't for Nintendo.

Nintendo wanted a console that sold at a profit. Given MS have removed a chip to get costs down now in 2009, I can only imagine in 2007 the cost of this kind of tech must have seemed prohibitive to having a console that sold for a profit.

Hence, from Nintendo point of view, a good decision.



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