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Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins on The Art of Business in Gaming

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The Evolution of Nintendo's Business Model

If they come out with a fully backward compatible Switch and an open app store, that's the new Nintendo. I think you can see publicly in the way that they're going with Microsoft against Sony that who knows what this actually looks like in the next 90 days. Both everything we can tell of how they're starting with Microsoft and embracing openness gives a clue of maybe how this works. That is so compelling, at least for me as a consumer if they do that. The console business has been essentially the same business since 1985. It's sell a box and sell some physical hardware for that box andGrudgingly allow it to be played online and grudgingly allow communication between users.

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