alt Hacker News"Wouldn’t it be nice if Nintendo were more like Microsoft?"
That's... completely unhinged. But, putting aside the mention of the biggest rent seeker in tech world as a role model. What's everyone's take on the gamers cheering against the Nintendo? Who's going to create this generation's own franchises like Nintendo did? What will be their incentives to invest time and effort in any new IP?
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>What's everyone's take on the gamers cheering against the Nintendo?
Nintendo is a scourge on the gaming industry. Gary Bowser is going to spend the rest of his life paying them, they illegally send DMCA takedowns on emulators, threaten developers by sending goons directly to their homes, takes away your ownership of games with their game code carts, tries to control and destroy the second hand market. Nintendo can burn.
>Who's going to create this generation's own franchises like Nintendo did?
Nintendo created zero franchises in this generation. Splatoon, maybe ? They're already creatively dry.
> What will be their incentives to invest time and effort in any new IP?
Piracy and emulation have been present for the past twenty years. Does it look like no new IPs came out in those twenty years ? Hell, for the recent recomp projects, it has been people _begging_ to be able to play games on another platform, they would have paid for it. Bloodborne has gotten a decomp that people have been screaming for for years.
Companies that believe they can get you stuck on their platforms are going to crash and burn, and we'll all be better off for it.
(Also intellectual property as a whole is a farce and has made the world worse)
Some Nintendo fans think they know better than Nintendo and deserve ownership of the IP.