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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
16 Mar 2023 Acquired Nintendo's Origins
“Again, the iPhone parallel here, Steve Jobs always said this is five years ahead of the competition. I think that ended up being, round it maybe a year or two, but basically right.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Mar 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Nintendo's Origins
Transcript context
…It's so good. Nintendo of America doesn't stop there. They're so audacious with what they do, but they could get away with it because nobody cared in America. It was a dead industry. Also, they had a great device. Again, the iPhone parallel here, Steve Jobs always said this is five years ahead of the competition. I think that ended up being, round it maybe a year or two, but basically right. The Famicom was five years ahead of the competition and consoles. They go and they have the very best device on the market that everyone wants, you aggregate all the users, and you can do whatever the hell you want to your developers. Oh, my gosh. They just make money six ways from Sunday on this. It continues, the legal innovations of Nintendo of America here. Really, I think Howard Lincoln is behind a lot of this. They say we're going to go further. Any third-party that makes games for the NES in America, we're going to limit the number of games that you can make per year. We're only going to allow you to release a maximum of five games per year on the platform. They're just flagrant here. They just like, oh, the DOJ is never going to come for us.…
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