alephnull on 20 January 2009
The situation is different. Nintendo had driven a number of third parties into bankruptcy during the days of the SNES due to the way they priced carts.
It used to be that a third party would have to buy X number of carts from nintendo whether or not they actually sold any of them. And at $20 a cart you would have to basically bet the company with every new game release.
When other platforms offered freedom from cart hell, all of the third parties jumped as fast as they could.
