• IronBird@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    what were you smoking? nintendo has never been the good guy…they successfully patented the “digital representation of water” back in the day

    • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      24 days ago

      sorry, i should’ve said “was seen as the good guys”. nintendo’s been doing shitty stuff since at least the 80s

      but that wasn’t the popular narrative back in the 2000s/2010s! just like valve now, people were more than willing to gloss over their shitty stuff because everyone else was worse. people worshipped iwata & reggie just like people worship gabe newell now.

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        24 days ago

        nintendo has always had it’s weird fanboys, say what you want but their business strategy of re-releasing the same old shit for next generation of kids works.

        plenty of people out there more than happy to consume mindlessly it seems