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They have some good games, but their anticonsumer actions have always rub the me the wrong way.
Plus their stance on emulators and their attacks on that community.
So grateful that Sega and then Sony broke their monopoly.
They aren't anti consumer and they were never a monopoly. The trap with Nintendo is that if Nintendo hardware ceases to exist so do all Nintendo games and the games they work with their best third party developers. You want to make sure there is never another Zelda game ever again? Get Nintendo out of the hardware game and that will happen immediately.
Nintendo has always sat off in their own land and never had the best of anything in hardware but in house had great teams that focus on fun and know how to extra every ounce of performance from the limited stuff they have. It works for them. And that combination of stuff has meant their own games and the ones they work with their partners on are always the best of the best of each generation. The problems they've had (lower graphics than competitors, frame rate drops) go back to the original NES. Their entire portable line which has crushed now dozens of competitors and driven them out of the market was always the worst of the worst when it came to hardware and functionality.
Emulation is theft. I say that as someone who emulates. Unless you own the original game or it is off copyright it is stealing, often in bulk, it is morally, legally, and ethically wrong. I'm OK with that, but I'm not going to lie and say it's not theft and shreds any moral credibility I may have on issues of theft completely. I'm ethical enough and respected games enough I bought the original JAMMA arcade boards for the arcade games I wanted rather than pirate through MAME. Six figure investment. Got married had to sell off the game room. Did I emulate them? Yes. Is it theft, un ethnical, immoral, and illegal? Yeah I don't own them now! I'm not going to lie about it.
Their stance on third party hardware is understandable. Going back to the NES a lot of third party hardware was crap and often damaged their own stuff. They don't want to deal with it and their consumers don't want to deal with it.
In some cases they have stances consumers should respect. Part of the reason their game prices stay high is they are committed to physical media. With everything going to digital downloads after the PC lead the way and the PC now forcing gaming into gaming as a service in the cloud (and yes it's coming, no it can't be stopped, and yes it is due to PC gaming so take a bow PC gamers) Nintendo is still good about physical games.
As long as your goals aren't stealing their games or permanently killing off Zelda and more just to get a release on the PC Nitendo is fine. But then again PC gamers have always been thieves and would murder infants in the crib if it got them a game on the PC so their judgement has long be held up for mockery.
