You really think the average player has long term memory, reads multiple newspapers on a daily basis and knows all the shenanigans of Google?

NO! They only care about themselves and the bottom line. Gimme the game as fast as possible with as low of a cost possible and goodbye.

Wrong, if that were true the cheapest console would always be dominant. And the market easily disrupted.

Sometimes that’s the case, sometimes it isn’t.

So clearly average gamers know enough about companies to factor in reputation into the mix. Otherwise those $50 emulators would outsell everything else on the planet.