Quote Originally Posted by duffmanth View Post
I just wish the Nintendo of the mid eighties to the mid nineties existed today. That was the Nintendo that I and many others grew up with. No matter what your gaming tastes were, the NES and SNES had you covered. I know people are going to say that they had a strangle hold on licensing rights back then, and that's one reason why they had so many great games at the time, but they need to start getting back some of those core gamers that they've lost to Sony and MS. Starting with the N64, Nintendo has lost a lot of those fans to Sony, and has made no attempt to get them back. I will always have a soft spot for the Nintendo of old, but what they've turned into the last 10-15 years I just can't get into.
I've heard this nostalgia-blinded comment so many times and laughed every time. If Nintendo were the same today, here's how things would be:
-Companies would only be allowed to release 5 games a year
-Nintendo would still be stingy with licensing things
-Nintendo would only allow a certain amount of copies of a 3rd-party game to be manufactured
-Nintendo would have a monopoly on price points, meaning they could set their own games for $60 and 3rd-party games at $30
-We'd have considerably below standard hardware (NES was weaker than even average systems like SMS)

People are too apologetic of the cruel 80's Nintendo company. Their practices rivaled that of a corrupt monarch.

They let up with their cruelty with N64 and Gamecube and still continued to pump out core, non-casual titles, and like with Sega, the core gaming community abandoned them.