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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The GaneBoy Advance nearly didn’t happen either. I used a prototype version of it over a year before it was released, when I was working at ARM. Nintendo had approached us about doing some next gen handhold tech. They’d just released the N64
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At the time, ARM was really pushing the sort of computer on a chip concept that now underpins every mobile phone, but back then was revolutionary. We did a tech demo for them. An ARM7 CPU with integrated graphics and an LCD screen attached to a circuit board.
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Then we got David Braben, the Elite guy, to do a few demo games. Most significantly, he did a software 3D graphics library and a mock up of a handheld version of Mario Kart in 3D. Nintendo’s high ups saw it and freaked.
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And not in a good way. They were making a huge thing about the prowess of their graphics hardware in the N64. This little tech demo was much cheaper and used no hardware acceleration, could run off AA batteries and was better than their N64.
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So they killed the project and we figured that was that. Except 18 months later, it suddenly reappeared as the GBA, only without the 3D graphics library stuff we’d shown them. I guess they decided to use what we’d build after all, but over a year later & nerfed.
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Yeah that's the Nintendo philosophy for ya
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This cyberpunk idea of the Evil Tech Corporation that has *control* as their one overriding value Quality comes second, sometimes they'll make better products if that gives them control, just as often they'll deliberately make worse ones
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It applies to many companies in history, sure - Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, all of them, it's the failure state of tech capitalism But I really believe it describes Nintendo most of all
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