Nintendo has only managed to escape heavy criticism because Sony, Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, and the rest of the AAA gaming industry have been competing with each other to see who can self-immolate the fastest.
Their crackdowns on streamers and fan artists, constant use of artificial scarcity to encourage FOMO (which only helps scalpers and hurts their customers), war against emulation, and censorship of American releases should earn them much more ire than it has. One of these days, it is all going to blow up in their faces.
The fact that gamers still see them as the "best" gaming company really shows just what a dumpster fire the entire gaming industry is these days.
As a kid I didn't realize that the "Nintendo Seal of Quality" was part of a licensing scheme where Nintendo forced third parties to pay them to produce their cartridges and limited how many games they could release. I had no idea what the lockout chip was and why some third party cartridges were shaped differently.
Ostensibly it was to prevent the same shovelware that caused video games to crash during the Atari era, but how wonderful for them that it also funneled extra profits and control to Nintendo.
Nintendo has only managed to escape heavy criticism because Sony, Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, and the rest of the AAA gaming industry have been competing with each other to see who can self-immolate the fastest.
Their crackdowns on streamers and fan artists, constant use of artificial scarcity to encourage FOMO (which only helps scalpers and hurts their customers), war against emulation, and censorship of American releases should earn them much more ire than it has. One of these days, it is all going to blow up in their faces.
The fact that gamers still see them as the "best" gaming company really shows just what a dumpster fire the entire gaming industry is these days.
I have been hating Nintendo for a while for their abuse of the copyright system
As a kid I didn't realize that the "Nintendo Seal of Quality" was part of a licensing scheme where Nintendo forced third parties to pay them to produce their cartridges and limited how many games they could release. I had no idea what the lockout chip was and why some third party cartridges were shaped differently.
Ostensibly it was to prevent the same shovelware that caused video games to crash during the Atari era, but how wonderful for them that it also funneled extra profits and control to Nintendo.