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emily :verified_gay: (@est@emily.news)

@jalcine@todon.eu Nintendo brought the entire gaming industry back from the brink in 1985 by exerting large amounts of control over their gaming systems, so it’s a winning strategy for them. Every company that puts out a product faces this tension between control and openness.(The 1983 video game crash was in part due to enormous numbers of shitty games flooding the market, and Nintendo’s response to this was to implement NES cartridges with 10NES lockout chips so that only licensees could make games. They haven’t changed much since.)
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I've heard a little bit about this crash from random documentary about video games, but this is such an anti-consumer response (imo) from Nintendo (nor was this covered). Wow!

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