{"id":1469,"date":"2025-07-30T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:06:01","slug":"nintendo-was-the-only-one-making-steady-revenue-on-nes-says-capcom-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/nintendo-was-the-only-one-making-steady-revenue-on-nes-says-capcom-vet\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Was The Only One Making Steady Revenue On NES, Says Capcom Vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Profits skyrocketed with the switch from cartridges to discs&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Capcom and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/street_fighter_ii_the_world_warrior\">Street Fighter II<\/a> producer Yoshiki Okamoto has been sharing insights into his time working on games for the NES \/ Famicom over on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DWmUsHUltVQ&amp;ab_channel=%E5%B2%A1%E6%9C%AC%E5%90%89%E8%B5%B7%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0ch\">his YouTube channel<\/a>, and it gives us an interesting glimpse at game development at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Translated by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-veteran-says-nintendo-was-the-only-one-making-steady-revenue-from-nes-game-carts-capcoms-profits-really-took-off-with-the-ps1\/\">Automaton Media<\/a>, Okamoto detailed that it was harder for third-party developers such as Capcom and retailers to actually turn a profit making and selling games for the Famicom. And, from his experience, &#8220;only Nintendo had a guaranteed profit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/07\/nintendo-was-the-only-one-making-steady-revenue-on-nes-says-capcom-vet\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Profits skyrocketed with the switch from cartridges to discs&#8221;. Former Capcom and Street Fighter II producer Yoshiki Okamoto has been sharing insights into his time working on games for the NES \/ Famicom over on his YouTube channel, and it gives us an interesting glimpse at game development at the time. Translated by Automaton Media, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}