>>5358569>companies don't care if their products fall apart 5-15 years later.But you're wrong.
Companies care about how long their stuff will last because many people keep their products for a life time. Most people remember what products go to shit fast and AVOID buying it.
Companies like Hasbro, Nintendo, LEGO, and almost every major company who makes products have taken measures to be known as a reliable goods company.
>>5358596>stuff made today is less likely to hold up over 30 years than stuff made in the 80swat
Electronics, yes, because of materials being made from cheaper stuff and forced compliance with EPA laws/rules (ex: lead solder was super durable and the environmentally safer ones are shit).
But plastic toys? Most toy companies have been mixing in anti-oxidants with their plastics so that they do last longer and the paint/pigments remains stable.
Stuff like the SNES changing colors was purely an unforeseen problem, because sometimes two compounds that are known to be durable and long lasting, when mixed together can fuck each other up, in ways that they didn't know would happen.
So with most things today, if they fuck up it's because the reaction was previously unknown, because most companies today do want to make long lasting goods.
