Nintendo's biggest mistake?

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d21lewis said:

RolStoppable said:

fordy said:

RolStoppable said:

What was Squaresoft's reason to cease support of the Gameboy?

I'd say the subsequent fact that Sony bought a good chunk of Square's stock, and convinced them that FMV type games that wasted tons of space were the only way to go.

Of course, Hiroshi saying that RPGs are for depressed people sitting in dark rooms and playing slow games didn't help, either.

But Squaresoft still supported other systems like the Wonderswan and Yamauchi's comment only came after Squaresoft had already ceased to support any Nintendo platform.

Memory is kinda funny on this one but wasn't there some bad blood between Square and Nintendo because Square went with Sony?  I mean until the Gamecube when they tried to make amends by giving them the half assed Crytal Chronicles series?  I'll see if I can dig up something concrete.

They did have a exclusivity agreement with Sony though we don't know what it entailed exactly.  To even have Chrystal Chronicles show up on a Nintendo console Squaresoft had to create a paper company called "The Game Designers Studio".  To evade the exclusivity deal, Square held only 49% of the company and another Squaresoft executive held 51%.  The game was directly funded by Hiroshi Yamauchi's "Q fund". Later that year Squaresoft merged with Enix and their old exclusivity agreements were no longer valid or were reexamined.