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Nintendo's Origins

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Nintendo's Scale Economy

console R&D is actually not a scale economy, because you don't have the benefit of all the people that bought your old console to amortize the cost. And so I think that's something they've sort of woken up to with the Switch. The next big console that Nintendo comes out with is a Switch and is super Switch compatible. Then they start entering the scale economy's game where they can make the biggest best hardware if they can get more people paying a sort of subscription.

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