Companies can be redeemed.
rzwitserloot posted in Uncategorized on February 15th, 2007

This is nintendo? - the company that openly screwed game producers in the most morally corrupt way possible and didn’t give a damn, riding the coattails of a decade worth of virtual monopoly?

There are so many companies out there (like, say, Disney and their crusade to destroy culture by appropriating it. Q: how long does copyright last? A: however long ‘mickey mouse’ has been copyrighted - anytime that copyright is almost over, disney lobbys for an extension) which I just don’t like because they appear to be involved in moral or ethical corruption. You know - abusing monopolies, misleading people (FUD), lobbying for crappy laws that benefit only them financially, hypocritical actions (lobbying or acting in such a way that companies that use tactics they use or once used no longer stand a chance. Nestle and Disney are very guilty of this one), and other such things.

Even apple’s renowned customer service record doesn’t hold a candle to that treatment.

Talk about knowing you can’t win and then winning anyway - nintendo is doing everything they can manage EXCEPT build the most powerful game console, because that’s the one thing they can’t win on. So they decide to win at everything else. Looking at their stock value and the sales numbers, this strategy is working stellarly well for them. I think there’s a lesson in there for all companies.

Play nice. Be innovative.