Alan_Wakes_Torch wrote:
The Nintendo "Seal of Quality" was intended to restore consumer confidence.
That's what marketing said but Nintendo forced every publisher to use them for manufacturing of cartridges. This generated them more money obviously but it did mean there was a limit on how many cartridges could be manufactured and publishers were restricted on how many games a year they could release. So rather than churn out crap they had to make sure their games were good as they needed to maximize sales. There were still plenty of NES games released with major bugs in them, even from Nintendo themselves (Mario speed runs are all done through exploiting bugs), there was also a lot of crap games released on the console as well like the appalling X-Men game.
But again all the seal really did was ensure that Nintendo made the cartridge and it wouldn't brick the system. They didn't do any playtesting or refuse any games for being crap or buggy
Also, N64 had Superman, which is fairly widely considered one of the worst games ever. |
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