10 Worst Decisions Nintendo Ever Made

Ah, Nintendo. Surely they, the almighty bastions of perfection, have done nothing wrong over their long and storied reign at the top of the industry. Right? Yes, the fact is that even the companies held in the highest regard have made some pretty massive stumbles along the way. What matters, of course, is how the company managed to recover from those stumbles… but that’s much less fun to talk about, so today we’re focusing solely on the most foolish things Nintendo has ever done. We’ll be looking at a mix of examples and, I should mention, even if something on this list was financially successful, that doesn’t necessarily mean it was a good decision. If Nintendo’s credibility took a hit, we’re counting it. Here are the 10 Worst Decisions Nintendo Ever Made.
VO: Ben Potter (@Confused_Dude)
Script: Tyler Bramley (@TylerBramley3)
Video Editor: Liam Carroll (IG: ThatGeordieLiam)
#Nintendo #Rare #Mario
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[@lewisclark1122]

The content creators programme sounds less like the actions of a child having a tantrum and more like the actions of a small time gangster running a protection racket.

[@CrowTRobot]

Comments: You always leave Nintendo off your lists! TripleJump: oh don't worry, we have a Nintendo List for you.

[@UltraHylia]

2:35 I greatly enjoyed seeing The IT Crowd in this video

[@JustIn_Kase]

Also at 0:25

[@subzerogallant5725]

Speaking of the GameCube, why are there no GameCube games on any virtual console? I would love to play Eternal Darkness, Pokémon Coliseum and XD, and many more that I can't anymore because the disks are expensive as hell and the games themselves aren't available anywhere else.

[@reallyhimongod]

Mod your Wii U like I did check my playlist! And fuck Nintendo they won’t do what we ask of them so we gotta pull a fuckin Thanos and DO IT OURSELVES!

[@FairAussie1]

If you’ve got a decent pc just emulate what you want too play dolphin is really good for an emulator I’d even say that it runs games better then an actual cube

[@FairAussie1]

It’s all basically abandon ware at this point there not making money of any old software anyway

[@mattjackson2799]

So they can be rereleased on switch and they can ask full price for 20 year old games.

[@FairAussie1]

@@reallyhimongod Pokémon red blue yellow gold silver crystal were all rereleased for 3ds vc in Australia they were only $13 I fail too see how that’s a full price game a full price game here is anywhere between $80-100 the last games released for switch that were rereleases were Mario 64 and sunshine and Galaxy which was part of all stars again they weren’t full price games as I only paid 69.95 for it I shop at GameStop which here is called eb games and everything this company sells is at RRP which again is the same way GameStop operates in the USA minus price differences for currency rates our next gen consoles were a lot more pricy then what the USA sold

[@fantasticdavidson1179]

Taking Mario 35 out was the biggest middle finger nintendo ever gave me

[@Nbflowers1989]

I miss Rare :(

[@mattjackson2799]

We would have conker 2 and banjo threeie (not the nuts and bolts garbage) if they never sold rare.+ conker would probably be in smash.

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

@@mattjackson2799 lmao yeah not very likely

[@ananastudio]

Don't worry, you'll get _Everwild_ lmao

[@Christopher-md7tf]

​@@mattjackson2799 Nuts & Bolts was purely Rare's idea, not Microsoft's.

[@no-one_nobody]

Microsoft saved Rare in my opinion

[@danwright2249]

The WiiU had a great game library considering most of the best games on the switch are WiiU games

[@Joncryan]

Sony deal should not be on there. it appears on lists like this all the time. People need to do a bit more research. Nintendo pulled out because Sony tried to screw them over in the contract. They added a clause that they would have the rights to mario and Zelda on CD. they also added that they would not have to pay nintendo any rights or gain any approval for cd software. meaning all the publishers could go through Sony, and then nintendo would get nothing. If anything it would have been a far worse decision to NOT pull out of the deal.

[@willissudweeks1050]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I can definitely see them making shitty Zelda games.

[@DeaDGoD_XIV]

It's on the list because it created one of their most successful competitors and lost them a ton of money. Had Nintendo bothered to negotiate instead of signing a supposedly bad contract then pulling out at the almost literal last second it wouldn't be on lists like this.

[@Joncryan]

@@DeaDGoD_XIV Yes but it was still not a bad decision to pull out of the deal. We don't know if they could negotiate, and maybe once someone has tried to so openly screw you over once, then what will they try next. Given the choice I think cancelling the deal was actually the smart move. Sure Nintendo had a rough time with the n64 and Gamecube ( still made a profit mind you, because of the high attach rate of first party software ) but they are doing pretty good for themselves at the minute. Stronger than they ever were.

[@DeaDGoD_XIV]

Don't blindly sign a contract with anyone because you're in haste to try and beat your competition. Businesses always try to get the upper hand when the other party looks desperate. For as careful a company as Nintendo had been, and as Yakuza like with how they handled stores selling competitors products or running sales on their products that no one was buying, they got a good slice of humility. And, no, it still wasn't a good decision overall, it lost them credibility and tons of market share at the time.

[@fandangobrandango7864]

It was actually Nintendo that went behind the back of Sony.

[@ItsYourBoyAD]

So happy to not have seen yet ANOTHER video talking about the naming of the Wii U or the existence of the Virtual Boy

[@RoseSupreme]

I love when the lesser-talked-about stuff are discussed.

[@86wezza88]

Letting Rare slip away is/was extremely disappointing, especially with the type of games they have done since. I would love to have seen what games they could have made for the Switch.

[@davidwhitted289]

Banjo kazooie would still be a huge franchise along with Conker and they would both be in smash way sooner for the former

[@JuiceboxCE]

F in the chat to all the amazing IPs under their belt collecting dust in the attic

[@johnsmithy6354]

Nintendo sold at a great time, actually. Rare was beginning to go downhill after Perfect Dark, seems their best designers went into Free Radical. Donkey Kong 64 wasn't good, Conkers Bad Fur Day was not the idea of a sober company, and nothing since has really been good.

[@86lanzo]

@@JuiceboxCE rare is getting to do what they want...right now they could make banjo or conker right now..but they don't want to..they just want to make new IPs

[@JuiceboxCE]

@@86lanzo Hey don't get me wrong, I absolutely love that they get to do that! Power to em, follow passion! I just wish we could see someone else develop for some of the titles being entirely forgotten, like Viva Piñata for example. One-of-a-kind IP right there, has little competition on the market, would stand out immensely nowadays! They can lend insight on it, but let other studios work on it.

[@UnstableMinor]

That Caddicarus Joke caught me off guard, made me laugh for the first time in a while

[@dgross2009]

Glad I picked up the "bad decision" Wii U which not only can play in Wii mode but plays some exclusives that include some of my favorite games such as Xenoblade Chronicles X. The gamepad is great with games especially as a map device or items pouch. Breath of the Wild would have been great on the Wii U if as originally intended it utilized the gamepad ie. Sheikah Slate.

[@kiwisoup]

I'm glad I had mine just because I can play all the GameCube and Wii games on it. Nice to have one consolidated system to play all the pre-switch Nintendo games on it when soft modded

[@buttisholy8571]

Microsoft Rare made one of my favorite games of all time, Viva Pinata. I do wish they were actually making games.

[@Coreisus]

I enjoy Kameo quite alot

[@MGlBlaze]

Everwild

[@davidwhitted289]

They still do actually , just not as much as before

[@86lanzo]

I wonder why ppl just ignore Everwild

[@darthdeze]

Speaking for the N64, other than the storage medium, how the hell was is not forward thinking? Built in 4 controller ports, made true 3D a standard, setting resolution benchmarks with F-Zero X running at 60 FPS

[@h8GW]

Man, I miss old much-less-evil Nintendo. Damn perpetual fanbois.

[@sprockkets]

It was good, better than the PS1 IMO. They botched it though with using Rambus ram - too expensive and it gave bad performance. It had good peak performance but with all the latency, it sucked for good all around performance, which actually matters. That's why all the textures sucked and later in its life, they resorted to storing textures on the cartridge instead of ram.

[@timothyoswald8618]

I'm glad Nintendo goofed up and screwed Sony. The wonderful times I've had with playstation games over the last 25 years... just amazing.

[@mattjackson2799]

Well those games would probably be on nintendo so its not like they would never exist otherwise.

[@spartan066]

@@mattjackson2799 their weak ass hardware won't support such games especially from the 7th gen and onwards.

[@Psych0technic]

@@mattjackson2799 nah, nintendo would've just kept churning out mario/zelda/metroid games as they do now, and won't let through more mature themed games by 3rd parties.

[@mattjackson2799]

@@Psych0technic You realize games like resident evil remake and resident evil 4 used to be nintendo gamecube exclusives.

[@Psych0technic]

@@mattjackson2799 yes, because sony forced Nintendo to try and pursue more mature audience as they were trying to catch up. Re 4 lost it's exclusivity even before release, btw.

[@jessiebeck8891]

Another 10 worst decisions: 1. Putting "This game stinks" for Earthbound. 2. Not making Princess Peach playable in NSMBW, NSMBU, SMO, and SMM2. 3. Not letting Mario appear in the Wreck-it Ralph franchise. 4. Rejecting my good ideas.

[@colingznetworkplus4618]

That being said, the GameCube had a great library

[@cilldaracyclist2822]

Love the cube, currently have 204 physical games for it - getting expensive at this point! But worth it

[@crazedlunatic43]

A huge improvement over the N64 in terms of games available to play on, and how less of a hassle to code on.

[@jbarnes7148]

That Superman 64 metaphor was on point, my guy.

[@user-dv2hc8zt3o]

Nintendo got rid of Rare because well...they weren't making very good games anymore and Nintendo saw the writing on the wall and they handed the keys to Microsoft and said "good luck suckers"

[@blackraven85_1]

Finally someone gets it.

[@night-x6793]

Good luck indeed.😏💸

[@mamster233]

@@blackraven85_1 what do you mean? Rare made some of the best games on the N64...

[@jsrosete84]

@@mamster233 the quality was slipping towards the end of n64. they made their last game for the gamecube and it was underwhelming at best. after ms acquired them, they have not produced any memorable games as they did during the n64 days.

[@mamster233]

@@jsrosete84 ok thanks man. it's so weird how people can have such varied opinions. literally being on the other side of the spectrum to each other. i've read people saying that Nintendo should have bought Rare to now you saying that it was great for Nintendo to ditch Rare. :(

[@ArmaBiologica35]

Rare was already leaking talent before being bought by Microsoft. For example half of the development team left the company before the release of Perfect Dark to form Free radical, The studio behind Timesplitters.

[@justthisguy1948]

Both great games

[@charlieb308]

1. Wii U name, Moms didn’t know what it was, they just figured it was a Wii. If they named it something else probably would have sold better, even me walking in store didn’t even think about it, thought it was just another Wii with fancy black case

[@Psych0technic]

By that logic people wouldn't buy SNES because they thought it was just some kind of fancy NES.

[@bsharpmajorscale]

That's nothing compared to the 57 flavors of (3)DS we came to know and be confused by. DS, DS Lite, DSi, 3DS, 3DS XL, the slab 2DS, the closing 2DS, the New 3DS, New 3DS XL, and probably a few I'm forgetting. Maybe a DSi XL.

[@mariajimenafigueroa233]

Or the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP and Game Boy Micro

[@charlieb308]

@@Psych0technic back in 80s and early 90s life was slower and you didn’t get hit with kids wanting much, no new phones coming out etc…but by the time the Wii U launched there were so many devices to choose from and Nintendo didn’t market it very well, even me as a gamer I didn’t even know what it was, I just saw it in a Walmart one day and figured it was a Wii that just had HDMI

[@crazedlunatic43]

@@charlieb308 The Wii U is an overall huge improvement over the original wii, it's a shame that it failed because of awful marketing.

[@misterblakk3690]

The MOST foolish thing is clearly not making Wario Land 5

[@CrowTRobot]

They did. It's called Wario Land Shake-It (Shake Dimension in the UK) and it's fantastic. I'd love a 6 though.

[@misterblakk3690]

@@CrowTRobot That's true! I always forget about that one because I didn't have a Wii, but it looks awesome!

[@ShowdeQuetzal]

This editing team is crazy good

[@MDE128]

The worst decision of all is not including a double dash mode in Mario Kart 8.

[@WeirdToYourMother]

0:24 I love that I'm not the only one who thinks of this scene from the IT Crowd whenever a fight is mentioned. Best on-screen brawl since They Live, and somehow even funnier

[@tmartyf3177]

I remember being enraged as a child that Ruby and Sapphire didn't have Johto and Kanto in them, although I guess that's more Game Freak's fault.

[@bsharpmajorscale]

I wonder how big a game would be that contained all the 2D Pokemon regions in it?

[@jatarokemuri5443]

Johto was made to be kanto 2. Hoenn was made to be it’s own region.

[@Enraged-Gecko]

Nintendo did release a disc drive attachment for the N64, though it wasn’t released outside of Japan and was discontinued 14 months after release. After witnessing Sega and Atari release a disc drive peripheral for the Genesis/Mega Drive and Jaguar and seeing the abysmal sales figures, the execs probably concluded that an international release of the N64 DD wouldn’t be any more successful.

[@sprockkets]

But it was delayed for the exact reason in the video - costs. It also just wasn't competitive with actual CDs, even if it was writable.

[@mooviedude141]

You could make a list of 50 worst decisions. Nintendo has some all time great games but they are one of the most greedy, anti consumer companies in the industry

[@diamondjim311272]

Well said. I both love and hate Nintendo. I love the games and the joy these games have given me but I hate the way they conduct business. TBF that is a criticism of a lot of corporations in a capitalist society but that alone is not justification for their crappy ethics.

[@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234]

Even at that, They're somehow 10x better than EA 😂🤣

[@mooviedude141]

@@diamondjim311272 Exactly. It's a love/hate relationship

[@yeetyeet5079]

@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 they are most similar to Bethesda they both can make great games but are both very anti consumer

[@mariastevens6406]

All the companies became so anti-consumer when the internet enabled digital content delivery. Back when they had to deliver it via disc or cartridge, they had to make their stuff good or they just wouldn't have stayed afloat. They couldn't keep tugging gamers along with the promise of working out the bugs. I used to pre-order games of series I loved but I simply won't ever pre-order anything anymore.

[@VanillaBear9915]

I swear Nintendo is allergic to money. I can't believe it took this long for them to start making an open world Pokemon game.

[@ForceMaximus84]

To be fair regarding Rare, many of the original staff, including the founders, were leaving or had left the company, so Nintendo knew the company was worthless when they sold. The proof is in the pudding considering Rare’s weak output since being owned by Microsoft.

[@williamsmith666]

Nintendo ditching Rare was INITIALLY disappointing, but it was obvious by the time Star Fox Adventures came and went, and the games to come later on down the road, their glory days were, and still are, long in the past. At least they spared the poor Gamecube "Grabbed by the Goulies"... The only true disappointment is them not having the rights to their N64 catalogue.

[@jacksonteller3973]

Grabbed is a decent game

[@HDRodger]

I don’t actually think Nintendo were wrong to sell Rare, in fact I think they sold Rare at exactly the right time. Rare had their time in the 90s but they started to steadily decline in the early 2000s and Nintendo rightly decided that it was time to cash in. Rare haven’t made anything worthwhile since.

[@EoR_2B4GOT10]

the sony/philipps problem is much more complicated than some try to make it whoever made the deal for nintendo with sony handed out some terrible deal that would give sony all the revenue from 3rd partys and making the addon worthless for nintendo the deal with philipps was just to get out of the deal with sony and the wait on the follow up to the famicom in japan was because nintendo wanted to do it right after the pc engine launched they started to develop the super famicom and after years of proper development released it as the masterpiece it was ment to be I actually understand Nintendo being omegalevel protective of their IPs if they let one thing slip through they could face problems later on when someone tries to push their luck I still can't believe how dense the tournement organisers were when they told Nintendo no to their plea to not use the illegal mod... whoever thought that was a viable strategy should get fired everyone knows how protective nintendo is of their IPs if you manage to slip under radar good for you. but the instand you are spotted you back the fk off. remember the dude who made a fangame based on the ocarina of time engine and when nintendo handed him the cease & desist he just put the game up again just without advertisements on the downloadpage? god that guy was optimistic at best. he even wanted to know some lawyer fees because he wanted to up against them in court. no it doesn't matter that you don't make a profit if you try to fight Nintendo of for being protective over their IPs I lose all sympathy. It reminds me of a child playing with fire and burning itself.

[@Boy123Jim]

Letting Sony becoming a gaming manufacturer, was the best thing they did lol.

[@ran4erep]

no, that was historical mistake. Just imagine the world where Nintendo is dominating and makes the best AAA titles on the best hardware...

[@themanwithnoname4385]

@@ran4erep I'm glad they arent. They are already extremely anti consumer, despise their fanbases and treat them like garbage. I cant imagine how worse they would be if they had more money and power.

[@Randomperson-zt3il]

100% agree

[@cardnacn6704]

@@ran4erep I think that would be the exact opposite. From what I see when a certain person or group dominate their marketing, they tend to care less and less quality bc they don't have competitors to boost their sale. They can release mediocre games and get money.

[@jamieoiler5690]

no

[@naejimba]

The thing with Rare kills me... I detest the practice in the industry of, when you actually have competition of someone making good games, that you buy the studio to destroy it. I mean, at the VERY least you have to admit the people working there are talented and the games they are making are selling... otherwise they wouldn't bother buying out the competition. So then, instead of utilizing the great talent and franchises they just picked up, they nuke the whole thing.

[@Justforvisit]

So, in short: Electronic Arts

[@jameskaye86]

Loving the caddy reference

[@AdrianWoodUK]

Re: "Genesis vs NES" - Umm, it's a bit of a stretch to call Nintendo not bringing out the SNES immediately after Sega released the Mega Drive a bad decision. History has certainly vindicated it, with both the NES and SNES (and for that matter the N64) outselling the Mega Drive in the end. Nintendo have rarely competed on the basis of having the most powerful system on the market, a strategy which goes back to at least the original Gameboy, and it usually pays off for them. Plus... It's not like companies just have console designs sitting in warehouses for years waiting to go on sale. The SNES we eventually got just wouldn't have been ready at that point. A SNES released two years earlier would've meant hardware two years less advanced, two years less design and development, two years less notice for internal and external dev teams working on games for it. That theoretical Mega-Drive-launch-window-matching SNES just wouldn't be the SNES that we know, love, and bought about 20 million more than the Mega Drive of. Seems like a good choice to me. On a semi-related note: 10:10 - "From this double bout of indecision, Nintendo unwittingly created the most successful console manufacturer ever..." ...I'm not sure what metric you're going by here, but purely on systems sold, Nintendo *is* the most successful console manufacturer ever, by several hundred million. I mean, unless you meant "the manufacturer of the most successful console" which, yes, Sony, but that's not quite the same thing. Assuming you meant what you said though... in what sense? The only way I could get this to work is by limiting it to home consoles, AND only those since the PS1 came out, which is basically saying "Nintendo aren't the most successful console manufacturer, as long as you don't count some of their most successful consoles", which is a little bit silly if you ask me. It's not like there wasn't an obvious other mistake to bring up. The Virtual Boy is conspicuous by it's absence in this vid! One of the most famous flops of all time; where is it?

[@bsharpmajorscale]

The worst mistakes are ongoing ones that continue to plague us, like not localizing Mother 3 and region locking stuff.

[@DemomanX614]

Also, they didn't own rare to begin with, thier mistake was not buying them. And even then a lot of thier original team left and started Free Radical Design.

[@ShytPump]

Nintendo didn't sell rare. Rare was an independent company and was bought by Microsoft. Then they lost their creative control and many employees broke off into their own companies. Rare effectively died that day and they never made a single great game for Xbox. They had great plans for the GameCube.

[@LeFatshady]

Great Caddy cameo! :D

[@newageBoundhippie]

that Princess Tomato shout out got me...wish I had a working NES so I could play my copy again. also: modern Paper Mario. Sticker Star onward just feel soulless compared to the first 3 games not localizing so many titles ( not just Mother 3... ) shoving gyro/motion controls into damn near EVERYTHING since the Wii launched Star Fox Zero's asinine controls...as well as it's status as yet another remake of the SNES original ( 64 was a remake too ) prioritizing generic basic enemies in Mario spin-offs over actual unique characters most of what they've done on mobile

[@valetboy21]

How about Nintendo Sees Red. The Virtual Boy being released with a disclaimer stating not to play for too long as the product we brought to market and extensively playtested can cause headaches.

[@masteroflight7296]

Nintendo never owned Rare. Rare was always a second party company with no ownership from Nintendo apart from having the the permission to use the DK license. If they owned Rare they would have also owned Conker, Banjo and perfect dark which they never did In 2002 Microsoft was able to purchase them with no real say from Nintendo other then Rare losing the rights to make DK games.

[@whosaidthat84]

If I remember correctly, they had a chance to buy Rare after they hit financial straits. Whatever dumb reason, the Big N declined and MS swept them up.

[@reallyhimongod]

Modded my Wii U and it’s the best system ever now..

[@randosavich]

O yeah? Can you play all 23 games?

[@reallyhimongod]

@@randosavich lol fuck Wii U games I only play my gamecube and wii games but yeah I actually do have all the Wii U games too lol

[@arcticflower7223]

Video starts at 0:50.

[@TheGonemaDD]

I agree with everything on this list except for calling the Game Cube outdated tech. That beautiful machine was the last time Nintendo competed in the high end console scene. The Game Cube has the best looking games of that console generation. (Rogue Squadron, Metroid Prime, Resident Evil 4) Resident Evil 4 on PS2 looks like shit.

[@alexpace1783]

The Gamecube was the last time Nintendo attempted to make a console similar to the competition yeah, but Nintendo still noticeably cut corners with it. The mini-DVDs, input-limited controller, lack of hard drive and online support all discernibly hurt the platform in the long run. Chronicles of Riddick on Xbox alone visually transcends those games you listed by the way. Granted that’s not a knock on the Gamecube, more so that Microsoft deliberately set out to make the original Xbox bleeding-edge for the time.

[@crazedlunatic43]

@@alexpace1783 For it’s flaws, at least it provided great gems and an overall improvement compared to the near non existent third party support that the n64 had.

[@crazedlunatic43]

Noobs: The Cartridge format held back the true potential of the N64 MVG: 4kb texture cache is what held it back (including other technical bottlenecks and issues from the machine itself and having less to do with the format chosen.)

[@squallleonhart9387]

Letting Rare get purchased by Microsoft was the absolute worst thing they did, considering they’ve helped develop the best games ever while giving DK his iconic redesign after the transition from the arcade games. Rare also carried the N64 as they knew how to develop for it. It’s why I love Starfox Adventures so much, their last hurrah with Nintendo but omg more Rare Support on the GameCube and even the Wii would’ve been Legendary. The rest is history.

[@jacksonteller3973]

Rare were done with Nintendo after they forced them to redesign Dinosaur Planet into a Star Fox game, they were miserable enough that they begged Microsoft to buy them out.

[@rantafor4377]

@@jacksonteller3973 It actually wasn't Microsoft that they were talking too, it was Activision it was just that Rare was looking to sell happened to coincide with Microsoft's looking around the industry for devs looking to jump ship and companies looking to sell.

[@Nbflowers1989]

Triple Jump really got their money's worth for that Ben-in-Sunglasses pic 😅😅

[@larsjj2794]

8:08 It had an amazing game library! That's why so much was ported to switch.

[@TBoneTony]

Many long time Nintendo fans from the 80s and 90s abandoned Nintendo after RARE was sold to Microsoft. It may have been for financial benefits to Nintendo as well as helping to mend bridges with Square-Enix and Capcom in the short term during the GameCube and Wii eras. But the cost was so many dedicated Nintendo fans who were burnt so much during the N64 era but still had some massive games, they lost RARE and therefore lost the older Nintendo Fans who wanted further RARE games. I for one stuck with the GameCube, but wanted to go Multiplatform once when the RARE games started appearing more regularly and that was what I did during the Wii era where I brought an XBox360 for the few RARE games as well as Dead or Alive series. While I also brought a PS3 for the Japanese JRPGs and other Anime type games.

[@ChrisGorski]

There is no way Nintendo dumping the Nintendo Playstation for Philips doesn't take top spot

[@TheCreapler]

Correction it was an emulator not a mod, emulator's allow you to play the original games unmodified its pretty much the System hardware in a program and a mod is a Modification of whatever game has been changed, not that it really matters.

[@PatrickThomasBrady]

Correction they weren’t talking about playing roms on emulators, watch the video again they were referring to taking Nintendo games and modding them, for instance with the smash bros melee example, the only reason it was playable online was because it modified the original game and Nintendo did not like that, with that said Nintendo has also gone after rom hosting sites but that has nothing to do with emulators because they are perfectly legal

[@TheCreapler]

​@@PatrickThomasBrady this is the first thing that pops up on google and i quote "Nintendo's reason for halting the event's progress is due to the usage of Slippi, an online module for the Dolphin emulator, by Big House. Organizers recently learned they no longer have permission to broadcast the event on twitch, effectively killing any competitions before they could begin"

[@PatrickThomasBrady]

@@TheCreapler I know what happened and I really should correct myself relating to that because it’s not the emulator, which is essentially a modified version of dolphin, or the fact that melee is modified but it’s because it required players to use a rom to play and Nintendo was concerned about piracy

[@jungleGSC]

i lol'd when he said "remember black mesa!?"

[@Christopher-md7tf]

Oh my god I can't hear this Rare stuff anymore. Just take a look at the games they have made since then, NINTENDO MADE THE RIGHT MOVE. Even the last game they made for Nintendo, Starfox Adventures, was rather mediocre. Also: Third-Party Support on the Switch is "choppy at best"?? It's probably the best Third-Party support any Nintendo console has had since the Super Nintendo rofl (not counting mountains of Shovelware on the Wii).

[@masteroflight7296]

The reason the rare games were so bad after they left was because a majority of the employees left after Microsoft bought them and Microsoft hired new people who had no relation to the original team. Eventually Microsoft restructured them into there Kinect team

[@retcon1991]

I thought that Superman analogy was pretty good! Let down by 'jumping', I suppose.

[@IgnatiusAlpha]

I'm happy I'm not the only one that remembers Princess Tomato In The Salad Kingdom.

[@jacksonteller3973]

I saw that game on a list of "worst video games titles" many years ago.

[@toonpik7]

1. Selling Rare was a good decision for them since many of those developers behind their classics and the founders were on their way out of the company by that time. 2. Friend codes are superior to usernames because let’s be honest, nobody you ask ever remembers how it’s exactly spelled and it turns into guesswork, trying all sorts of substitutions for letters and finally being told that there’s an underscore in there somewhere. Plus, it lets you set your online name to anything want and change it whenever you want.

[@deathjoker666]

Friend codes are stupid, much easier to type in the name. Friend codes are inferior, I get to change my name on my Xbox too so nice lie. Sony and Microsoft does what Nintendon't.

[@MewtwoStruckBack]

Nintendo trolling the Smash community was a direct response to how the community reacted to Nintendo wanting the RNG to be a consistent part of Smash. When people look up Smash and all they see are matches without items, without hazards, without anything beyond basic stages and "screw up once and get punished for a whole stock" type gameplay, they're going to want to reduce the skill gap a bit - which they did with Brawl (though admittedly TOO much) - and that just pissed off the competitive community which said "screw your new game, we'll keep playing the old one, no new sales for you from us" and therein lies Nintendo wanting to bitchslap competitive Smash as the community ran it out of the world. If Sakurai's vision for Smash was something closer to 4P smash on The Great Cave Offensive with crazy shit going on all around the map, and all we see is the meme of no items fox only final destination, I could see why they'd overcorrect. I wish they wouldn't have backed down on the ruleset in their events, Nintendo-ran tournaments that had that stuff on were the only reason I had to tune in and watch, as it was finally something different.

[@cbennett_12]

The worst thing Nintendo has ever done is sacking my uncle for revealing insider secrets

[@FairAussie1]

I’m on there side here it sucks he lost his job but doing stuff like that in big business can cripple and even destroy a company

[@Christopher-md7tf]

Yours, too????

[@Tatokat]

You are aware that sharing company secrets is a crime, aren't you? And not a minor one at that.

[@nerdkenz2001]

Y’all, I believe it’s the “my uncle works for Nintendo” things

[@cbennett_12]

@@nerdkenz2001 But he doesn’t anymore 😭

[@Shifty1897]

Naming the successor to the Wii the Wii U, giving the GameCube a Mini DVD disc drive instead of a regular DVD drive, pricing the 3DS at $250 in 2011, and releasing the Virtual Boy is a handy list of other terrible decisions they made.

[@crazedlunatic43]

At least loading screens were quicker on the GameCube than on the PS2 and Original Xbox. Never really cared about DVD playback anyway, and from what I heard, the PS2's dvd playback quality wasn't better than standalone DVD players at the time, though at least the PS2 served as a cheaper option, and why most casual users skipped the GameCube.

[@deathjoker666]

@@crazedlunatic43 Ps2 had better games than the Gamecube. So did the OG Xbox. I don't give a damn about load times and the load times on the PS2 weren't bad at all unless it was shitty game.

[@crazedlunatic43]

@@deathjoker666 “Better games” is a rather subjective argument when comparing platforms amongst themselves. It all depends on what type of games you’re into, and to what games said platform offers. The GameCube for instance had plenty of exclusives that have not been ported to more modern consoles yet. PS2 had a good line up of exclusives as well (albeit timed exclusives for most of its library if memory serves me correctly.) but again it all depends on your tastes in gaming and what franchises you prefer over.

[@crazedlunatic43]

@@deathjoker666 On the Original Xbox topic however, I tend to disagree with the claim of the OG Xbox having “better games”when it’s line of exclusives aren’t as strong as the PS2 or GameCube, besides Halo 1 and 2 ringing a bell to me. For Microsoft’s first console it wasn’t too shabby, and it had promising features that weren’t available on the GameCube nor PS2, like a built in hard disk, better online services, and was more powerful and easier to work with than the convoluted complexity of the PS2’s hardware. But it barely dominated the GameCube’s install base by a mere 3 more million consoles sold. For context: GCN install base: 21.74 million hardware sold (208 million GCN software sales) compared to the Original Xbox install base: 24.56 million hardware sold (below 160 million software sales.).

[@CC-rb1yf]

Was there a mention of Virtual Boy?

[@catriamflockentanz]

2:12 It is rather "not buying the rest of Rare" making the owners look for another company to buy them out.

[@shayne537]

Conkurs Bad Fur Day was one of the best things Nintendo did. I loved that game. It was like a Mario game but with Chainsaws.

[@Dosunceste]

Most of these it's unclear to me why should be considered "worst decisions". 1) Super Mario 3D All-Stars was beloved by fans and sold 9 million units during the short anniversary period. 2) To buy the 51% shares of Rare Nintendo would have had to spend a hundred million while at the same time Rare games sales were declining. Instead Nintendo had just bought Retro Studios for $1 million and the rest is history. 3) NES profits in North America peaked in 1990, only a stupid would have killed the golden goose too early. 6) Nintendo never stopped innovating. The N64 was created to tackle full 3D experience and to achieve it introduced analogue stick, rumble, 4 local multiplayer and a slew of groundbreaking games. 9) Sony wanted a royalty fee for every CD sold on the "Play Station", including Nintendo's own games. Going forward with the clause would have weakened Nintendo, Sony was a big corporation ready to absorbe the smaller "videogame companies" and eat their lunch (in fact Sony offered Sega to become a "special" third-party for PlayStation, just like Namco was treated in exchange to stop compete with them in the console business). Nintendo is the most profitable console manufacturer in history, abdicating to Sony conditions would have been a pretty stupid move. Not only Nintendo is more profitable than Sony's PlayStation division but overall Nintendo has sold more console than Sony.

[@themanwithnoname4385]

Nintendo is like that one washed up singer who had 2 good songs and still thinks they are top dog, failing to get with the times and fail to realize the golden years left decades ago

[@Lukas-kz4xm]

Not sticking with the 'Ultra 64' name, failing to release a port of Killer Instinct 1 for what became the Nintendo 64 and prematurely ending the SNES by 96 (no memorable title was released after that year) though the polygon craze may be responsible for that one.

[@DeathMetalDerf]

I still want to get my hands on one of the Game & Watch reissues. I'm going to pay dearly for it, but I still will.

[@The_Infamous_Boogyman]

Genesis vs enisis (NES), GREAT rhyme opportunity

[@robsiddall9731]

Finally porting goldeneye...then plopped with control's

[@BrinkofSanity]

not having functional online is mind boggling. It's why I sold my Wii U and why I never got a Switch. I wonder how many more like me there are

[@danwright2249]

Nintendo didn't sell rare. You can't sell something you never owned in the first place. Most of the best developers had already left Rare to form Retro Studios who exclusively make Nintendo games. Rare have made nothing of note for Xbox

[@sprockkets]

Nintendo pulled out of the Sony partnership because Sony wanted complete control of licensing. That for anyone with a brain, meant it was DOA.

[@The_Infamous_Boogyman]

Rare made all the N64 games that were great. Killer instinct is still my fav fighter, the werewolf and orchid, cinder too, just great fighters

[@bencampbell198]

Guys, when are you getting Simon Miller on the team? Every time he pops up he's one step closer to making videos for Triplejump

[@davecodd5832]

Virtual boy? How is that not one of the worst decisions in gaming history? Also, didn't they go to atari to distribute the NES in North America? Atari turned them down, but if they didn't, Nintendo may have opened the door for another competitor in the home gaming market. Atari would have had the name recognition and finances to attempt a real Renaissance, not what they did with the jaguar.

[@FireTiger941]

1. NOT making a Nintendo 64 classic edition!

[@thespiralgoeson]

Cartridges instead of CDs for the N64. That cost them massive third party support which they never got back.

[@12thMandalorian]

I feel bad for saying the limited time run of Mario 35 didnt bother me, buy it if you want to, if you don’t don’t, is what it is

[@Sinn0100]

Whoa...whoa...whoa I may not be a huge Nintendo fan but saying the N64 and GameCube were not innovative is just flat wrong. The N64's architecture with 4 controller support right out of the box coupled with good analog sticks were huge. While Nintendo wasn't the first to go with analog sticks they were the ones to perfect it. Further, the expansion bay at the front of the N64 was ingenious and kept it afloat against the Dreamcast. Finally, the GameCube carried on with 4 player support and was incredible powerful for its time. The Wii by comparison was complete garbage that almost forced Nintendo into the 3rd party space. I know it's shocking to think octogenarians didn't want to stand in line for the next "leap" in technical prowess but there you have it. Without the DS carrying Nintendo it would have been game over. In short the Nintendo Wii was nothing more than short term gains that nearly cost them everything. Addendum-Nintendo has done some outright devious things during their time in the US market...most of these on your list were very minor.

[@adipramana7]

Lost it at the quick summary lmao

[@OfficialFingazMC]

00:39 a young Hilary???

[@glitterbitesback]

Online is worth it for the Amina’s Crossing DLC and new Mario Kart levels. Oh and the free ports of old systems! I get to play Sega again!

[@unstablebrother]

Was there ever a reason why there's three top 10s a week?

[@OfficialFingazMC]

Because the lists do more numbers, therefore more money. That's why they were hiring new writers and editors. The longer videos that the hardcore fans enjoy, don't seem to appeal to the casual, none Ben & Peter fan.

[@StageRight123]

You can literally find dozens of copies of Super Mario 3D All-Stars and the Game & Watch at any Walmart, Target, or Best Buy.

[@StageRight123]

@Ash A Why would you buy a digital copy, when there are tens of thousands, of physical copies available to purchase?

[@rustyshakkleford]

My favorite thing about GameCube is that Nintendo switched to discs but they were so small that it still limited developers, and the only reason they went with those tiny discs was form factor.

[@jacksonteller3973]

exactly, I get so annoyed at Nintendo fanboys who shoot down the idea of Nintendo developing a more powerful console on the basis that it wouldn't be a hit cause of the Gamecube, newsflash fanboys, those crappy discs were what led to weaker sales then Xbox and PS2 overall. I heard they were actually done not for form factory but because Nintendo was all paranoid over piracy(which was rampant on the PS1 and PS2)if Nintendo had used normal DVDs like a sane company the GC would've sold way more then it did. I hate that Nintendo learned the wrong lessons from the GC and now are OK with half-assing the power of their consoles resulting in really lousy ports for third-party games and unfortunately consumers rewarded them.

[@redacted2275]

It was due to piracy and faster loading times. Don't spill stuff you don't know.

[@crazedlunatic43]

@@jacksonteller3973 Sure, it didn't sell as well as the mighty PS2, but the Cube's overall sales are actually fairly closer to the OG Xbox sales, and if we count software wise, the GameCube was more profitable than the OG Xbox. The GameCube ain't perfect, but in my honest opinion, I would take fast loading times over DVD playback any day.

[@jacksonteller3973]

@@crazedlunatic43 GC's loading times were usually pretty lousy on many of their ports though, in some cases even worse than the PS2 versions of multi-platform titles so it couldn't even do that right.

[@crazedlunatic43]

@@jacksonteller3973 Optimization is key, and to tell you the truth, not many third parties were working on the GameCube platform since for third party publishers, they weren't making enough money when some initially signed to do GameCube exclusives, and thus they would also dedicate their time to a more successful platform at the same time.

[@Swedishtrex]

Nintendo is such a strange company. A lot of the stuff they do, you just look at it and think "what the fuck?" Still, I love my GBC, DS lite and Switch.

[@Psych0technic]

They remind me of Apple quite a bit. Very restrictive, anti consumer in many regards, copyright hogs, overpriced hardware.

[@whosaidthat84]

As far as pure developers, Nintendo will always be my favorite. But their business practices have been the worst. To be fair, no major business are known for being charitable.

[@VideojugadorIrritado]

Not mention of the last thing that Gunpei Yokoi created? The virtual boy.

[@no-one_nobody]

Not a bad idea, I'm fact a pretty good one. Obviously it was way ahead of its time and was executed poorly but by innovation it's a W

[@jacksonteller3973]

@@no-one_nobody I think it was a bad idea to do it so soon before the technology was ready.

[@mchenrynick]

How did the Virtual Boy miss this list?

[@dr.markevers8331]

It was so horrible it was forgotten?

[@DrAndyShick]

That's what I was wondering

[@StonerAmongstUs]

Joy-con drift is not a Nintendo exclusive problem and the Switch was their first console to experience this. Microsoft & Sony been dealing with it since PS3/Xbox 360, but they don't get the negative press. I wonder why🤷🏻‍♂️

[@jacksonteller3973]

nah those controllers NEVER had it has bad as the joycons did, get lost fanboy

[@emperortrevornorton3119]

Not working with Sony is probably the most noticeable one of flub ups but if it would have we would not have gotten playstation from it and not even a big fan of playstation but I enjoyed my share of games for the console Like all the syphon filter games

[@backup368]

0:11 Where's Splatoon?

[@Papai_Pai]

The master system was very big in the UK and Europe when it first released it wasn't that popular in America though

[@jacksonteller3973]

it still sold better in America then it did in Japan, I was actually shocked to find out that the Mega Drive did poorly in Japan.

[@silverbasscross]

bold of you to suggest Nintendo needs advertising

[@coolchucho271]

The worst mostake decision made was not putting blood and gore in Mortal Kombat 1. Clearly that game was far better than the Sega version but it had no blood and for that the biggest tease in gaming history.

[@philiphowell6336]

Microsoft did nothing with Rare, what a waste.

[@freddiejohnson6137]

By the time Microsoft purchased Rare they were left with all the junior staff members not the creative ones and the rest left in 2014 after not having any creative freedom under Microsoft after pretty much being having most of the games they were working on cancelled in favour of them doing some kinect games.

[@joesretrostuff]

Thought I'd give it a go to great a top 10 of my own before watching this video. I only came up with 7 and largely agree except for a few items Cancelling PlayStation project on Sony Licensing Mario and Zelda for Phillips-CDi console Holding on to NES for too long into 4th generation, allowing Sega to get a foothold N64 using cartridges Wii-U console Virtual Boy Gamecube not having DVD capability

[@crazedlunatic43]

My only gripe with the n64 is how sorely lacking it was when it came third party games support, even though I'd prefer durable (and sadly expensive) carts over CDs anyday.

[@S.J.C._Entertainment]

The Wii U was a great console. Regardless of how poorly it may have done.

[@joesretrostuff]

@@S.J.C._Entertainment Maybe it was not a massive mistake per se, just lacklustre. It just wasn’t enough of a step from the Wii, including the name. Mind you plenty of people seem to criticise the GC which I thought was a great console, minor niggles with the controller aside

[@theonlybilge]

9:34 OBJECTIVELY WRONG, it was completely legal because it was made through reverse engineering.

[@sonofsol2869]

Worst thing is letting Rare go