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Re:Nintendo to ‘Hobbyist’ Developers: No Thanks by jonursenbach on Monday March 21, 2011 @07:36PM (#2352167)
The Wii too. I wish that they'd bring back their "Seal of Quality" to try to curb that kind of practice. Always helped produce fantastic quality on the SNES until they killed it around the time of the Gamecube.
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Re:Nintendo to ‘Hobbyist’ Developers: No Thanks by gharbad on Monday March 21, 2011 @07:37PM (#2352174)
the "Seal of Quality" did nothing but force companies to license carts through nintendo
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Re:Nintendo to ‘Hobbyist’ Developers: No Thanks by jonursenbach on Monday March 21, 2011 @08:05PM (#2352269)
True, but that said I don't recall ever seeing any shitty shovelware games with the seal on it. It was a nice way to easily find the cream of the crop.
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Re:Nintendo to ‘Hobbyist’ Developers: No Thanks by 9999 on Monday March 21, 2011 @08:52PM (#2352430)
A lot of titles that are now considered classics were initially released without that seal of approval because the publishers didn't want to pay Nintendo's licensing fees. Check out the Nintendo v. Tengen case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengen_%28company%29#NES_games

And a lot of awful games did have the Seal: http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/w20-01.htm

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Re:Nintendo to ‘Hobbyist’ Developers: No Thanks by ootachi on Monday March 21, 2011 @08:43PM (#2352401)
All licensed games had that seal. It was nothing more than a marker that the standard licensing process, which is not particularly different from console to console, was followed.
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