whyreggielie
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Its funny but Nintendo in 80's >>>>>>Pre 180 Microsoft.
All all the company's that could not be trusted with a one console monopoly, Nintendo is by far the least trustworthy. Even now.
Reading all that just makes me wish Sega was still in the game *sigh*
I don't know about that, I don't think Nintendo is as evil as they used to be however they also had good reason to be so aggressive. Remember the video game industry was absolutely dead in the west when Nintendo took interest. Yamauchi personally flew to the US from Japan 2-3 times a week at this time to bring video games back here. He risked a 100 year old company by going to Toys r us (among other retailers) in an attempt to convince them that the famicon could be successful over here and literally offered to pay for everything. This meant Toys r us didn't have to pay a dime for the consoles they just had to provide some shelf space and reap profits, it meant retailers would have no risk at all in this venture but would be detrimental to Nintendo if it failed.
Nintendo was very successful in Japan and had no reason to risk the whole company to try and revive a market in a country that had already moved on. This literally is why video games even happened again in the west so Nintendo was able to get a serious stronghold here before competition such as Sega came along.
Yea they were a monopoly and very powerful but for good reason, the company revived video games as an industry so I wouldn't say they were untrustworthy as they were the reason we were even playing video games.