David Rosenthal: belief

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…And owning the living room. It was their, how do we get Microsoft in the living room? Even though they took that loss on the whole generation, I think that's hardware and software included. I don't think Xbox as a franchise was profitable at all for Microsoft on that first generation. They're willing to take that enormous capital loss, which is basically all of Nintendo's treasury to compete against them, and they've got Sony. Nintendo just gets rocked. On top of all of this, there was a bill coming due that Nintendo had to pay eventually, and this is where they had to pay it. They finally leave cartridges. They have zero backwards compatibility with the GameCube because they were too stubborn to adopt discs sooner. On top of the fact that they're moving away from the cartridges, they go with mini CDs.…

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