Some of Nintendo's policies I think off the top of my head are:
- Ports of Wii U games costing full price (with slight QoL improvements and resolution bumps). Sony, Microsoft and other third parties remaster and port their games to newer systems, often at a cheaper price.
- The same digital only games i.e. no physical release costing more on the Switch than on PS4/PS5/PC/Xbox. The only benefit that Switch has is portability, whereas the other platforms have increased performance, resolution and IQ.
- Limited digital releases (see Super Mario 3D All-Stars). We all know Nintendo is eventually gonna release each game individually and it will cost more.
- Backwards compatibility. Microsoft is great at this, Sony is ok, but Nintendo just abandoned all their customers who bought games off the eShop and Virtual Console. You have to keep your Wii U, Wii and 3DS if you still want to play games you bought and if you want to play them on your Switch, you need to pay a monthly subscription fee.
- First party games barely going on sale and when they do, at most it's 30% off. Look at Sony and Microsoft, their first party games are on sale often, at times a deep sale, and eventually they will give the game a price cut both digitally and physically. You barely ever get first party Nintendo games on sale.
Other things like protecting their IPs against stuff like fan games I can understand but if Microsoft or Sony tried to pull any of these other things, most people wouldn't accept it. So why Nintendo?
- Ports of Wii U games costing full price (with slight QoL improvements and resolution bumps). Sony, Microsoft and other third parties remaster and port their games to newer systems, often at a cheaper price.
- The same digital only games i.e. no physical release costing more on the Switch than on PS4/PS5/PC/Xbox. The only benefit that Switch has is portability, whereas the other platforms have increased performance, resolution and IQ.
- Limited digital releases (see Super Mario 3D All-Stars). We all know Nintendo is eventually gonna release each game individually and it will cost more.
- Backwards compatibility. Microsoft is great at this, Sony is ok, but Nintendo just abandoned all their customers who bought games off the eShop and Virtual Console. You have to keep your Wii U, Wii and 3DS if you still want to play games you bought and if you want to play them on your Switch, you need to pay a monthly subscription fee.
- First party games barely going on sale and when they do, at most it's 30% off. Look at Sony and Microsoft, their first party games are on sale often, at times a deep sale, and eventually they will give the game a price cut both digitally and physically. You barely ever get first party Nintendo games on sale.
Other things like protecting their IPs against stuff like fan games I can understand but if Microsoft or Sony tried to pull any of these other things, most people wouldn't accept it. So why Nintendo?
