How did Nintendo become so successful?
Not helping you make your YouTube video, ask ChatGPT or something.
Corruption, really
Nintendo’s rise was a masterclass in calculated pivots.The Famicom launched in Japan in 1983 and bombed hard—sales were dismal, retailers hated the toy-like design, and it nearly tanked the company. Nintendo quietly retooled the entire thing: toned down the colors, added the iconic gray and black scheme, rebranded it the Nintendo Entertainment System, and positioned it as a serious home entertainment appliance instead of a kids’ toy. That version exploded in the U.S. and turned things around.Zelda came first in 1986 and was the real cash cow early on—huge margins, instant hit. Nintendo funneled almost every yen of profit from those Zelda cartridges directly into development of Super Mario Bros. They knew platformers were the future, but Zelda gave them the war chest to build it without cutting corners.By the time the Super Nintendo launched in 1990 (Japan) / 1991 (U.S.), the console was struggling against Sega’s Genesis momentum. What saved it? Donkey Kong Country dropped as one of the earliest major titles and basically became the system seller overnight. Those pre-rendered 3D graphics looked like nothing else on the market—people lined up for it, and the SNES moved millions of units on the strength of that one game alone. Rare basically carried Nintendo through that generation.That’s the real playbook: survive by rebranding, fund the next big thing with the last big thing, and let one killer exclusive swing the momentum.
nanomachines inside their consoles that brainwashed the poor consumers.
>>12452938Just what this shitty thread deserves.
A big part of it was that their competition repeatedly shit the bed. SEGA never once did better and Sony only managed to do better with the PS1 and PS2, which is telling because those are about the only generations Nintendo did not come out on top, come the PS3 it was Sony shitting the bed and Nintendo dominated with the Wii.
>>12452938This. Spot on with the pivots, but the real edge came from Yakuza boss Takeshi “Ghost” Nakamura. In 1984 he secretly financed the NES rebrand and Zelda’s development with underworld cash, then had his men eliminate bootleg threats that almost killed the SNES launch. Donkey Kong Country’s success? His protection racket made sure it shipped clean. Nintendo owes its throne to The Ghost.
>>12452928Unsavory and greedy business practices, like any kingpin company competing to become king of the monopoly
>>12452938>The Famicom launched in Japan in 1983 and bombed hardNo
>>12452928Making fun games. Sega being the only other company that had this philosophy.
>>12452928They know what the public wants. However they aren’t really good in reading what third party publishers want what explains their fuck ups like the N64, GameCube and the (now retro) Wii U
By catering to casuals.
This thread sucks, specially the chatgpt hallucination. Shame on you, fuckers.
>>12453160Basically this. Atari kept marking family fun, they didn't market to kids specifically. But they needed a larger library to keep making money so quality tanked. Everyone moved to home computers which was wild for a couple of reasons. Prices were dramatically diverse. Quality varied greatly too. Target audience included kids and exclusively adult content. Also some degree of skill is necessary to operate.Nintendo filled the gap. No moon shots, just mid quality. Targeted children. Children have an elastic perspective when it comes to media. Easy targets. A generation passed and nostalgia fed Nintendo, another generation passed and Nintendo made more money.They aren't gonna stop making money because they stay slow and steady. They make small cheap games and sell them at full price, to this day.This isn't a hate post. I have Nintendo stuff. Played all the Zeldas, Marios, Mario Karts etc...
By creating a cult that eats up every turd they shit out
>>12452937This is true for all major companies 100%. They have ties to their nations mafia, too. This helps them obtain the things they need and help add a little layer of pressure that sometimes the threat of a court session doesnt always provide.
>>12453332>They make small cheap games and sell them at full priceThe prices of their remakes/remasters are absolutely retarded. People buy them, though.
The company you like is bad.The company I like is good.
>>12452928Idea guys with toy makers fortune from prior century hire outside companies to do the actual programming. Use experience from toy industry to market new vidya.Profits eternal.
>>12452929based and jeet-pilled
by being cut throat, predatory, and anti-consumer
>>12452928Blood pacts that Miyamoto made with dark gods to become Maoumoto, Insane Demon God of Video Games.
Did you know Hiroshi Yamauchi wasn't actually a human being? He was a vessel that enclosed 7 yakuza oni spirits from 7 different regions in Japan. These oni monopolized the gambling in Japan with the hanafuda Nintendo cards and put a spell so that no other company could produce cards, truly evil.Yamauchi, often referred to as "大魔王 ティラノ天堂" (Great Evil King Tyranotendo), tyranized the video games market with his monopolic practises, it is said that the Master System or the PC Engine didn't actually ever exist, and that they were invented time after so hide the fact that the Famicom was actually the one and only console existing in Japan.
>>12453590Miyamoto is the wielder of the DMCAsword, that can kill a thousand fangames with one swing.
>>12453219Fuck you it was funny
>>12452938>The Famicom launched in Japan in 1983 and bombed hardI know this is gpt-bait-slop, but try and be less of a faggot for once
>Nintendo is evil and corruptProof?
>>12453686I don’t know but I just want to say that the Yakuza are the faggiest criminals of all time. They don’t even have guns thanks to Japan’s cucked society.
>>12453332>Atari, for serious gamers>Nintendo, just mid quality>Played all the Zeldaslol
>>12452928Lots of legal battles and strong arming smaller competitors and illegal monopoly practices and also siccing the government on your competitors.
>>12453686https://www.suedbynintendo.com/If your fart sounds like a wahoo by accident, Nintendo sues you.
>>12452938>—Come on man.
>>12453709If I was a Yakuza boss I would buy a hot tub and call it the Yakuzi.
I will CRUSH NintendoWith my bare hands.
>>12453721And? It's important to enforce your copyright. You'll know if you ever made anything anyone cares about and was worth anything.
>>12453750I'll enforce these nuts into your mouth kid.
>>12453686Iwata came to my house and shot my dog cause i nammed him Poochy.
>>12453750
>>12452928>their biggest mascots, Mario and Link, are whiteIs this cultural appropriation?
>HowAtari was absolutely retarded and killed itself
>>12454208Not like Sega did much better with their dumb decisions.
>>12453520as is tradition
>>12454208Well Sega still exists, Atari completely disintegrated
>>12453712>Atari, for serious gamersWho said that?>Nintendo, just mid qualityTrue, Nintendo never has made anything that is non derivative. Nintendo has never made anything that is cutting edge. They never made a biggest game or game with the biggest best whatever. They look at what has been done and make a version of that, usually with tighter theaming.>Played all the ZeldasHow would you say it, without expanding the length? I have no sacred cows.
Nintendo will pay for their crimes against gaming
>>12456774They saved gaming though?
Up until the GameCube era they were incredible the Wii was when the Soulless era began but there were still good games on the Wii and DS i think the 3DS was Nintendo last great console Iwata death the Wii U and the Switch ruined Nintendo
>>12452928handhelds
>>12456834They didn't save gaming. They made more right moves than wrong moves to perform above average in sales. This is the goal for every corporation. In this process they made more decent games than awful games.
they were never successful or good, that's just big youtube inventing a false narrative of reality
They made fun games
>>12457616How is that a crime?
>>12456834>a console made for retards, that bought 1 or 2 games a year, saved gamingmy sides. in fucking orbit.>>12458792>has no response to getting slappedhilarious
>>12458940NTA How is that a crime?
Most (not all) console gamers were kids or teenagers until around 2000.Every parent knew who Mario was and word around town was Nintendo was the family-friendly choice. It was the big section on shelves, parents felt safe dropping hundreds on something that appeared to be popular.Kids grew up playing them and became emotional about their childhood experiences.PSX came out as the core console gamers were aging out and had less-toxic financial terms for devs, but people who played Nintendo didn't forget their childhood. They have kids, and get them a Switch because they want to give their kids the same experience even though it won't be.Not a big mystery.
>>12452938>Zelda came out before Mariowut
>>12452928They made videogames
>>12452928Short answer: Good gamesLong answer: They pivoted successfully multiple times desu. NES was the answer to Atari killing the industry with shovelware and every kid that played games had to be on the NES. After that the first pivot is clear, Genesis was the true "gamy game" successor and SNES was the movie game console. Nintendo fumbled third parties badly and lost the movie game crowd to Sony, then they pivoted to their bing bing wahoo era that flopped hard, but zoomers and soccer moms rescued them with the Wii and now everyone acts like a child so they essentially control like half the market.
DESTROY NintendoEXTERMINATE NintendoOBLITERATE Nintendo
>>12452928Strong lineup of first party games, tried to be the budget console.
>>12462630Sorry but Tel Aviv doesnt make good games, Shlomo. Now go back to your Wolfenslop.
>63 fucking replies to zoomer dipshit "help me with my youtube essay homework" thread #185426988all fucking kys
>>12452928You can expect a good Zelda and Mario game on every main Nintendo console, meanwhile not even Sega could bother to give Sonic a Saturn game
they got there first when the market was still being defined
>>12465887Go watch 10,000 hours of youtube essays about gaming history and then realize how wrong you are.
>>12452928A lot of it can be attributed to Miyahon
>>12465909Yeah saying they "got there first" is dogshit but they were the first to establish game quality standards while retaining quality game devs.
>>12452928good games?
>>12452928Fun games
>>12452928The Disney of vidya.
>>12452928By suing the shit out of their dumb fans.
I honestly never imagined that I'd be in my 40s and still having to see Nintendo releasing stuff. I hate them so much
Is hating Nintendo a poorfag trait? The arguments are never good. It's just emotional arguments.
>>12471960thanks, Facebook
