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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steadfast" data-source="post: 183401" data-attributes="member: 1968">I feel the need to point out that the Nintendo Seal of Quality was not *just* a marketing gimmick. It was also supposed to discourage shovelware by limiting the number of NES releases per company.  The U.S. video game market already had a crash in 1983, and Nintendo really learned from it and made many deliberate decisions to avoid another one.IMO 'Authentics'-- while a similar marketing gimmick-- is more a counter to KOs and competitors like the rubsigns of old.Though functionally, yes, the latter seems to be losing the plot too.</blockquote>