[smugglerFlynn]

> compared to the best in the business

Huh? They are among the best. Disney is among Big 5 major movie studios. Lego is top 4 toy companies, largest by revenue among them. Apple is top-3 company in the world by market cap.

Quality is very subjective, but the fact that you personally prefer Baulders Gate to Mario just shows that Nintendo plays it in a different niche, not that latter is somehow objectively worse / has less quality than the former.

In my opinion, what sums up all these companies are the things they don’t do:

  - they don’t focus on “power users” or similar niche segments, unless these segments gain enough popularity
  - they don’t cater to cheaper segments of mass market
  - they don’t build their business models around copying competitors
  - they don’t delegate or outsource critical pieces of their value chain

This is what leads to unique and pricey products that sometimes polarize general public. (Although personally I’d narrow Disney down to only Pixar in OPs list, due to Disney’s poor fit with #3 and #4).

[hospitalJail]

>Quality is very subjective

And these companies pump the marketing and psychology tricks to an 11/10.

We could use objective quality metrics, but that would embarrass these groups. Why is it all of these groups are not the objectively the Top? They are B- when you use objective metrics.