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Yet Nintendo had resisted a significant online component in their games and platforms for two generations of consoles.

That's actually part of it my dude. Nintendo is a centuries old company they move using old boring technologies. They only go in when they know they can go in all the way.. You know what I'm saying? In their home demographic people were not ready for online gaming until recent years.

With long term investment comes a certain kind of risk appetite. It's the same reason banks haven't jumped into crypto or why so many enterprises continue using Java..

But I'm glad you used Nintendo as an example, being a software company. How about SNK or Capcom or Konami? You know what it's like getting blacklisted for jumping ship from one of these companies?

Can you go into a bit more detail about the blacklisting? I’ve never heard anything like that but it fits with something I read recently that the team that built Zelda Breath of the Wild had also been involved in making Majoras Mask.

It's one of those things which are just understood but you can't very well rely on having worked for a competitor to land a job at another company

Here is one article: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/konam... but I have heard of similar stories across industries

Edit! With reference to the above comment I don't mean that these companies themselves would blacklist anyone but rather that their competitors would not hire anyone who worked there on principle to avoid that sort of association.

Like in North America you could work for Microsoft and then Google but that sort of thing doesn't always fly.

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