That's completely untrue. The Seal of Quality was (still is in Europe) placed on every licensed third party game, and meant it had passed the lotcheck test, and thus function correctly on the hardware, fulfil certain criteria and not damage the console. It never meant the game would be good though
It was supposed to in intention, years and years ago. Nintendo Seal of Quality meant:
1) Nintendo designers looked over the game
2) They felt it was a good fit for their hardware
3) They could demand any changes from gameplay to aesthetics to censorship of material.
Basically, it meant that Nintendo approved this game as something you could enjoy as if it were from them.
Under the same licensing rules, Nintendo would also not allow a certain number of games from the same publisher so they don't flood the market (i.e. Konami should not be allowed to make more games than Capcom even if they had the capability to) and Nintendo would decide the game's release date and production numbers. Konami wanted to produce more Simon's Quest but couldn't because Nintendo didn't produce enough carts for them and wouldn't up the number in the face of ridiculous demand.
It was untenable for Nintendo and third parties, most infamously Namco, spent the next twenty years being incredibly sore about it. It took Yamauchi's retirement and the Bandai merger before the two companies worked together in anything more than a begrudging manner.
The Nintendo Seal of Quality in the Famicom days is the biggest symbol of Nintendo's arrogance and their inability to work with third parties. Bringing it back as it was, including for shit like Meme Run, is the stupidest fucking thing I have literally ever heard. You would have to be a goddamn moron to even
suggest it come back in form or in function. Or, I guess, so totally completely ignorant of history that you can at least fall back on a lack of knowledge as an excuse.
Here's why it would not work now. For one, who the fuck is the taste judge here? Miyamoto? Koizumi? The intern at NOA who gets coffee? Treehouse? Digipen graduates? Iwata? NST? These people are either all incredibly busy or incredibly unqualified to start judging game quality. And even if they were qualified, what if they block something people would like? What if they block a game that's by all accounts garbage and the following game from the same people turns out to be the next Minecraft? Oh, but we probably don't have to worry about that, Nintendo pissing off a game developer with a sudden ht hasn't come back to bite them in the ass before.
This argument just always comes down to "People should make better games." Which, you know what, they totally should. Until then, most people here are not three, they can discern what's a good game and what's not, they don't need a gatekeeper telling them that you can't play something because they don't think it's good enough and they
certainly don't need the Nintendo seal of quality back like it was in the 80s.