"I am... Sheik. One of the last of the Sheikah tribe..."
Says the guy with a SEGA inspired avatar
I remember those deals back in the early days. They were pretty fierce, which is what caused companies like Konami to make a secondary "bogus" company in order to release more games. Remember "Ultra"? The company that released Skate or Die, Snake's Revenge and other games? Yeah, that was totally Konami's secondary account
I wouldn't say they're "evil".
Just odd, as I already said.
But they aren't the only vg related company to act strange, there are some Japanese shmup developers that are quite odd about restricting availability of their games. Mostly to do with digital releases and OS purchases iirc. Although it's possible that might have changed recently, idk
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I love when companies, game related or no, start becoming good and evil. They're all out to make money. The end.
If Nintendo, on it's next console release, decided to go forth and patch relations with 3rd party devs, it would make bank. However, it would also mean it's core lineup and mascot has to compete with such games on it's own console. Let's face it, Ninty is holding ground because of nostalgia and some very good quality games. But have something like the newest Zelda compete with some upcoming title like I don't know, The Witcher 3, something is getting shoved aside. Not that this would necessarily be the case.
"I am... Sheik. One of the last of the Sheikah tribe..."
The nintendo vs. sega fight never concerned me since in my country you could only get one console each gen. A few of different consoles would get imported, and then based on the initial sales merchants would only import the highest selling one due minimize risks. So it went on like this: NES->Mega Drive->PS1->PS2->360. Basically, you won't find an N64 or an SNES there. (Things changed in Gen7 a bit though, mainly due to 360 being cheaper but Sony fanboys getting PS3s anyway)
I completely missed the NES days, my reason for thinking they were evil were articles I read many years later.
ある朝、気がついたんだ
僕はこの世界が嫌いなんだって
I think the good and evil aspect really stems from how they go about making money. When you look at companies like EA and Activision, who shove yearly installments of a franchise down your throat, and who have also attained multiple class action lawsuits due to releasing broken games, then that would probably qualify as evil.
I think Ninty is just strict.... granted I'm pretty sure their method of thinking back in the 80's was they were reviving a crashed market, and wanted to make sure they succeeded and didn't go the same way Atari went. I can applaud them for that, and as dumb as some of their decisions have been over the years, they never throw it in your face that they are just out to make money. You don't see them pulling the CoD card with their franchises and shoving the same shit down your throat year after year (although Mario games have been a bit suspect lately).