Honest truth? There was a lot of politics, you just didn't hear about it. Heck, the guy who financed Atari still can't be mentioned online. He's probably dead, and yet all the books with his name don't show those pages on Google Books ect. I assure you, it wasn't Wells Fargo.
During the congressional hearings of the 90's, the videogame companies were told to stop making false sales numbers to show how they acquired money from other enterprises. Nintendo of America was so deep into lawsuits, their president was also their lawyer.
No one knows what Sony has been doing. The sales numbers for consoles vs top selling games is weird. What is known, is Nintendo was in negotiations with them for a CD Rom drive, and suddenly dropped everything and kept far away from Sony for the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. Nintendo is a company that didn't mind working with the Yakuza, or Mafia or even military contractors for new games.
It was usually done behind closed doors or away from the public. When you start to get into the subject it can be a real shock, but also fascinating.
The difference was that was the management of those companies and not the creative content of the games, like today. It wasn't until the 360 era that companies really began to push what customers were comfortable with.
Honest truth? There was a lot of politics, you just didn't hear about it. Heck, the guy who financed Atari still can't be mentioned online. He's probably dead, and yet all the books with his name don't show those pages on Google Books ect. I assure you, it wasn't Wells Fargo.
During the congressional hearings of the 90's, the videogame companies were told to stop making false sales numbers to show how they acquired money from other enterprises. Nintendo of America was so deep into lawsuits, their president was also their lawyer.
No one knows what Sony has been doing. The sales numbers for consoles vs top selling games is weird. What is known, is Nintendo was in negotiations with them for a CD Rom drive, and suddenly dropped everything and kept far away from Sony for the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube. Nintendo is a company that didn't mind working with the Yakuza, or Mafia or even military contractors for new games.
It was usually done behind closed doors or away from the public. When you start to get into the subject it can be a real shock, but also fascinating.
The difference was that was the management of those companies and not the creative content of the games, like today. It wasn't until the 360 era that companies really began to push what customers were comfortable with.
Game makers did push stuff, we just never played it, and it was forgotten.