Nintendo, while aggressively litigious, do so to maintain the value and exclusivity of their IP.

Their games also never go on sale, and all sell really well over time, unlike many releases from other publishers.

The result is that Nintendo are able to release a solid cadence of high quality, first party games free of other forms of aggressive monetisation, maintaining the value of the games as art.

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    14 days ago

    Their games also never go on sale, and all sell really well over time

    _free of other forms of aggressive monetisation_

    My brother in christ Nintendo titles are of the most emulated and pirated of all game companies. They’re constantly the point of ridicule by sitting on the largest troves of only illegally playable video games in history.

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        14 days ago

        they go down… on devices that dont sell well. its why systems like the gamecube and wiiu had players choice or nintendo select prints. for example, DK Tropical Freeze was 50$ on the WiiU, 20$ as a Nintendo Selects. the launch price of the game on the Switch was 60$. They do it because they can get away with it because of the common sentiment that the WiiU had no games.

        nintendo is generosity is inversely related to the devices sucess.