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Re:My Prescription for Nintendo by pjmlp on Sunday January 26, 2014 @02:08AM (#7124197)
> Nintendo making games for other consoles?

Following SEGA footsteps. SEGA is still around.

> Nintendo's been around for a really long time.

Yes, almost since the begining. And they are also the ones to thank for the consoles requiring devkits and NDAs.

It was a concept introduced by Nintendo after the 1983 crash, as a means to control game quality.

So I don't pitty them.

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Re:My Prescription for Nintendo by erikj on Sunday January 26, 2014 @02:34AM (#7124247)
> Following SEGA footsteps. SEGA is still around.

Sega lost all of its influence and talent during the transition to software publisher. They hoped they will become #1 gaming software company but that never happened. Most of their gaming brands (Sonic the Hedgehog and others) took a masssive nosedive in quality or are abandoned, and new brands (like Aliens or Binary Domain) have failed. Sega is still around but it is a mere shadow of its former self. I'd prefer Nintendo to keep taking a gamble instead of giving up like Sega.

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Re:My Prescription for Nintendo by gfodor on Sunday January 26, 2014 @03:37AM (#7124424)
sega is the textbook example of why nintendo should not do what the OP is suggesting. better to burn out than fade away.
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