Quote Originally Posted by BetaWolf47 View Post
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.
Those things are all true, but it still doesn't change the fact that, for me at least, Nintendo just isn't the company they used to be, and that may be a bad or a good thing depending on how you look it?

True Nintendo had some very questionable business practices back then, but it still doesn't change the fact that they just don't have the same appeal for me that they used to.