I wrote a long and meandering article about the difference between Nintendo and MS plus how this relates to ones own states of consciousness, the Game, as it is, and the holographic principle as well. Oh my! I thought you lot may appreciate it. Excerpt:
That is actually the secret truth of pretty much every single business in the land due to the way they’re ran and managed as there is often a huge disconnect between the troops on the floor and the general at the head.
Look into Gunpei Yokoi of Nintendo fame for a great example of this in play as he, on company time, invented that which you’ve seen at the head of this section which came to the attention of the boss who greenlit it and then said “So, what else is cooking in that head then?”.
Cue a string of success and the creation of the Gameboy that changed everything after he’d spotted a salaryman fidgeting with a pocket calculator on the train and applied his lateral thoughts to this withered tech to take the company to another level via portable entertainment that was affordable. Contrast this with, say, Microsoft who have money that is super long and prongs in all types of pies but have managed to consecutively bomb in the gaming field, regardless of their investment.
Where they were once ahead they are currently circling and none of the talent they invested in is doing well with their shiny golden shackles present compared to how they were before acquisition. What is the difference?
The Blame Game.
Where it exists there can be no visionary thinking possible as its an either/or process. When the Wii U bricked Satoru Iwata voluntarily dropped his wages to ensure nobody else would suffer the consequences of his decisions. Can you imagine any other CEO, ever, thinking like this?
Compare that with Bills empire which just axed nine thousand staff members who, almost universally, cite the firms decision to invest heavily in AI but, in reality, the rot set in to this corporate Ship of Theseus back when and its been rudderless since with no clear vision or direction hence a consecutive series of expensive missteps. Who knows, they may still come out ahead and I’m but an observer sharing perpsects on the web of what is still an immensely successful business. An interesting side note is that I said, over a decade ago, that in the future there would be a universal gaming platform akin to how DVDs and Blu Rays doth kick.
The key differentiator would be the back catalog, controller tech and online aspects as that is what people would pay to access as it made way more sense to standardize platforms in terms of coding and devs plus it was nigh on inevitable that happen as gaming became widespread and not just a “for nerds only” thing.
I also added, as a proviso, that Nintendo would never, ever acquiesce to this. They’d be off in the corner, doing their own thing as they leave luck to heaven and thumb their noses at the competition which is a nod and wink reference to their origins and overall intent.
Full article:
https://willhelp.me/2025/11/19/the-difference-between-nintendo-and-microsoft/
Discussion is welcomed if you happen to be inspired by what was said as that is the reason I push the pen in order to kickstart the creativity in your head and this, to me, is an area in which Nintendo excel hence they intuitively "get" gamers and constantly refine what works so well. This is referenced, well, by the fact that some of the original SMB team worked on Wonder which, for any company, shows an immense retention rate along with the overall staff satisfaction of working there hence the difference between N and MS is akin to a speedboat with a tight crew versus a cruise ship with drunken captain and artificially constrained deckhands that were briganded with promises of that and this when, in reality, it was something else.
by willhelpmemore