I've come to realize that the Famicom is the greatest console of all timeThe library has a higher quantity of notable games than any other system, and a higher percentage than even the SNESBeyond even the games though, it's unique in the way it feels like a ubiquitous game distribution platform for the 80s. Publishers could manufacture their own carts. There wasn't really much of a "seal of quality" like the NES, you could just release whatever. And you also had the Disk System for even more freedom of distribution. Since it started off trying to be somewhat of a computer, you had ways to even make your own games as a consumer, like Family BASIC and Dezaemon. It was heavily cloned, even as early as the early 90s. It's like the DVD of consoles, sure, Blu-Ray is higher quality, but it's also more locked down and requires more specialized hardware.
>>12802963>Publishers could manufacture their own carts.That didn't last long though. I don't have an exact date but basically around the same time as the NES released in the US for reals, so around 1987, Nintendo of Japan pulled the same thing as for the NES and forced everyone to go through them for carts manufacturing, which became their entire new business model which they're still using today and the entire reason they've always used proprietary media, because it makes them money on every game produced for the system regardless of whether the game is bought by a customer.The only exceptions by that point were Hudson and Namco which had a special contract but that ended in 1989I can't disagree with the overall statement, I've beaten around 380 NES/FC/FDS games and there is still at least 100 more I'd like to beat or playBut things like Family BASIC and Deazemon were incredibly niche
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