There is also evidence that an out of court settlement happened between those companies. Notably moving away from cerebrates in SC2.

Cross platform games aren’t a buggy mess, everyone else has figured it out. Nintendo could do it as well.

Nintendo is heavily reliant on physical media and traditional retailers, they aren’t getting anywhere near 100% of most sales. Brick and mortar takes around a 50% cut, Amazon takes a cut as well. Being on Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam isn’t a significant difference in what they would make.

They would still sell a lot of consoles, the super fans are going to buy Nintendo consoles. The people that actually own multiple consoles in the same generation aren’t actually that big of a group, especially compared to non-Nintendo owners that would consider buying a few games if they were available.

There’s a few titles that have relied on gimmicks that would be difficult or impossible to do on other systems. It would be a temporary learning curve to get games able to support multiple platforms, but everyone else has already done it and Nintendo consoles have been the least powerful systems so it should be easier.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Vegas wasn’t a huge international destination except for the super rich. It’s a really long way to go to gamble, and there’s a good or better attractions in other US cities.

How many people buy Nintendo for exclusives isn’t super relevant. The important questions are how many more games would they sell if they were multi-platform, and how many fewer consoles they would sell if their games were available elsewhere. They would very likely sell substantially more games, but also likely see a significant reduction in console sales. This would still likely be a win as the games are far higher margin than the consoles.

That’s going to happen if population continues to increase and housing supply doesn’t keep pace. Between COVID shutdowns, following materials shortages, and now tariff fuckerey building has fallen way behind just barely keeping pace. We’re also in the fallout from keeping interest rates too low for too long, lots of people have mortgages in the 2-3% range and can’t sell unless something is forcing them to.

Procedural generation is just an earlier form of AI that’s been demystified and commercialized as a positive thing. The current generative tools aren’t at that level of adoption yet.

It builds indifference to the disclaimer when it’s too general. The California cancer label is a good example.

Then what are the enrichment facilities for if they aren’t using it for fuel?

This is blatantly false. If Iran has no nuclear armament aspirations they wouldn’t be building enrichment facilities under a mountain. They wouldn’t have uranium enriched well beyond the needs of power production. They could just buy enriched uranium directly. They could use heavy water reactors that don’t need enriched uranium.

At some point their claims of not seeking a nuke starts looking like a lie.