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Originally Posted by Kong
Nintendo learned early on if you get a monopoly on 3rd party developers then you can not be stopped. IMO Nintendo's 3rd party contracts are what killed Sega and should have been prevented under monopoly laws.
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Not to mention their "chip shortages" =).
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Originally Posted by Kong
GB did have better battery life compared to others + 3rd party monopoly still.
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True about the battery life. I don't know about the monopoly issue but it definitely was not as severe as in the NES days. The 8-bit Gameboy line lasted a very long time, well into the PS2 years. This is a stunningly long time for an 8-bit machine to last, and the monopoly comes from it being the only really successful portable out there, so I wouldn't call it a monopoly due to business practices =/.
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Originally Posted by Kong
I'm glad for the change. I hated nearly all games since about the start of N64. I haven't tried many modern games but they look like they are finally going back to fun games instead of hard core cutting edge lameness.
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Right, pretty much most games today are just variations of an FPS. Even though a lot of the Wii library is pretty lame you can find awesome gems like Klonoa and Muramasa on it that won't be on other consoles because they're not "mature" enough ;D. That and a lot of good things on Virtual Console even though you can play lots of them here XD. But, really paying for a game and owning it is good too ^^.
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