Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
16 Mar 2023 Acquired Nintendo's Origins
“I think there's this really weird dynamic with Nintendo, which is why I'm so happy we're doing this episode, that it's just overlooked and underappreciated as a business story, partially for the reasons you're saying.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 16 Mar 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Nintendo's Origins
Transcript context
…Every single one of these have gone under significant DOJ concerns, and Nintendo never seems to. Is it because people viewed this as a toy market that was not terribly important to our economy? It is a much smaller market. In 1990, they were only doing $3 billion in revenue. It's not like these companies that are doing $100 billion in revenue. I think there's this really weird dynamic with Nintendo, which is why I'm so happy we're doing this episode, that it's just overlooked and underappreciated as a business story, partially for the reasons you're saying. Partially because it's a Japanese company, so there's this weird bicultural thing. The belief that it's so hits driven makes people think like, oh, well, whatever market share they've accumulated surely isn't durable.…
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