But you just listed companies that aren't even comparable; they're at entirely different market capitalizations. FromSoft and CDPR are babies compared to Xbox, Sony, Nintendo, Activision, EA, and Epic. FromSoft has a rough valuation (its hard, because they're owned by Kadokawa) of maybe the low nine figures. CDPR is larger, in the low billions. Epic is like $40 billion. Activision, clearly, around $85B. EA, around $35B. And Microsoft/Sony, obviously, a lot, lot more.
Team Cherry and concernedape are also extremely amazing and ethical developers. But they aren't peers to the companies we're talking about. Its easy to be ethical when you're small. Its laudable to maintain a sense of those ethics when you're large, even if the absolute measure isn't a perfect score.
Nintendo is far scummier than you let on; they're among the scummiest video game companies on the planet. It just doesn't come through in their fantastic and "pure" gaming experiences; but the fights their legal team chooses to engage in are ugly, despicable, and very unique among gaming companies.
Then what you meant to say is that it's a good business, not a good [video game] company. Good video game companies make good video games, of which there are many others. Epic, Activision, and EA have high valuations because their games are filled with micro-transactions, not because their games are superior to others. This is good for investors but not consumers (who your original comment was championing).
> Team Cherry and concernedape are also extremely amazing and ethical developers.
Team Cherry produced a great game. I wouldn't be willing to call them a good company or a good team; their track record shows as plainly as you could possibly wish that they are terrible at developing games.
Team Cherry and concernedape are also extremely amazing and ethical developers. But they aren't peers to the companies we're talking about. Its easy to be ethical when you're small. Its laudable to maintain a sense of those ethics when you're large, even if the absolute measure isn't a perfect score.
Nintendo is far scummier than you let on; they're among the scummiest video game companies on the planet. It just doesn't come through in their fantastic and "pure" gaming experiences; but the fights their legal team chooses to engage in are ugly, despicable, and very unique among gaming companies.