@Liquidninja: It wasn't out of revenge. If you'd have the tech in your hands, into which you invested tens (hundreds?) of millions and your customer would say "fuck it", what would you do? Leave it there and mark up the losses or tried to make your investment to make money? Sony did the latter.
There was also Play Station (counting in PSP, PS3 actually is fifth Playstation), that could play SNES games and games for the new CD format, that was released by Sony. Nintendo tried to pull it out from the market with court order, but Sony won the case (due to Sony and Nintendo having a contract) and Sony pulled the Play Station out from the market, after Nintendo threatened Sony that it wouldn't buy sound processors for SNES from Sony anymore.
@Perpride: Nobody believed Nintendo even back then. Everybody thought Nintendo was just making PR twists, but in retrospect, what Yamauchi and Iwata talked about suddenly makes sense. This doesn't mean that Nintendo hadn't aimed maximising GC sales, but they weren't competing for the market share.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
