The Wii of all things being the most "left-wing" console Yes, surely, if you like games that depend on gimmicky peripherals that are designed to make them functionally unarchivable and therefore inaccessible to all future generations barring massive investment you're a comrade
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From a purely economic standpoint, the PS2 was the most "left-wing" console in that I'm pretty sure it had the longest shelf-life and allowed you to keep on playing new games without buying a new console the longest
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They actually used to say stuff like that back in the day, "PS2 compatibility for democracy and the working class!" was a meme
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I mean by contrast in terms of demanding you pay money for the same game again and again and again Nintendo is one of the worst companies in the world It's a running gag with them And it's been going on forever, it's why they were the last to switch away from cartridges
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They're really protective of their proprietary everything, like that's also the real reason they're famous for gimmicky peripherals and toys
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Okay so everyone knows this is the actual origin of the PlayStation, right, and the reason Sony got into the games business at all The original "Nintendo PlayStation" was a collab between Nintendo and Sony, one that Nintendo was always extremely uneasy about
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One of the biggest setbacks in Nintendo history was getting leapfrogged to the CD-ROM generation by first Sega with the Sega CD in 1991 and then the Sony PlayStation in 1994, a really harsh blow they've been struggling to recover from ever since And they did it to themselves
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They had the market share, they could've ruled console gaming *permanently* They were looking into CD-ROM technology in *1988*, they developed the "Super CD" as an add-on to the SNES But the upper-level brass at Nintendo were always suspicious of it
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Based on the fact that 1) They were unable to develop their own CD-ROM technology and format completely from the ground up in-house without anyone else's patents, and 2) This meant any CD-ROM software would be vulnerable to ripping and piracy
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Mr. Yamauchi, the President of Nintendo himself, *hated* this His *whole damn philosophy* was that everything cradle-to-grave Nintendo made be on Nintendo-owned proprietary tech, like to even make another device you can plug an SNES cart into was laborious reverse engineering
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They got really, really far with the concept of a CD-ROM-based console as a collab with Sony -- because it just made obvious sense as what the next console generation would be about -- but it was dogged by skepticism and increasingly harsh demands from Nintendo the whole time
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And then at some point, we don't know exactly what it was said, but Mr. Yamauchi unceremoniously shot the whole project in the head Sony made their huge announcement of their Nintendo partnership at the 1991 CES only for Nintendo to openly disavow this the *very next day*
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People at the time said Sony President Norio Ohga took this as a deep personal insult -- Nintendo saying "We've decided to go a different direction with Phillips instead" without even telling him They called it a Japanese honor culture thing but honestly it's a universal thing
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