Nintendo, while aggressively litigious, do so to maintain the value and exclusivity of their IP.
Their games also never go on sale, and all sell really well over time, unlike many releases from other publishers.
The result is that Nintendo are able to release a solid cadence of high quality, first party games free of other forms of aggressive monetisation, maintaining the value of the games as art.
I’m under no illusion Nintendo is a good or moral company.
Fair point on their mobile games, I don’t pay attention to that space. Almost all mobile gaming monetisation is based upon sucking in whales anyway though.
I wasn’t even aware of the Nintendo branded microSD. I suppose I could say that for Nintendo you can upgrade storage with off the shelf storage, can the same be said for the other consoles? PS5 storage upgrade is a rip off too.
We’ll see about Nintendo NFT gaming. Maybe in the mobile space I’ll admit if the industry normalises that shit.
I’m not even a Nintendo fanboy (mainly PC and PS5) but just appreciate that they don’t overspend on their releases ($600 million dollar failures like Concord don’t happen for them).
I think we need smaller scale, higher quality games that don’t need to justify their ridiculous development cost by pivoting the game design into in-game spend.