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Wonktonodi on 14 August 2013
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happydolphin said:
pokoko said:

So, wait, Nintendo didn't read the contract they agreed to follow?  They didn't realize what it said until years later?  Then, instead of going to Sony and attempting to work out a new deal, they secretly canceled everything, obviously with the intent to fuck Sony over, and made a deal with someone else, which they revealed to Sony with a surprise announcement?

And people act like Nintendo was some kind of innocent victim in all of that?  Holy cats.

It certainly sounds like they got what they deserved out of the situation.  That was mostly a FUBAR of their own making.  If they didn't agree with what Sony wanted then they should have said so from the start.

Actually, you know, reading that over, it sounds like bullcrap.  How the hell do you just suddenly realize what a contract says years down the line?  How does a large corporation not have legal experts examine every major agreement?  Something is really fishy with this explaination.

@bold. And do you blame them?? I would fuck Sony over too, quite eagerly, had they pulled off a move like that on me.

Holy fucking cats indeed.

If anyone deserved bad karma for it, it was Sony. They pulled a fast one on Nintendo, Nintendo got fucked, yet after all these years Sony still can't beat them. So who's the loser after all?

Hopefully it's the one who deserves it, and in this case, it's Sony. If anything's fishy with anything it's your reasoning.

And it wasn't years later, it was more like months later, maybe a year's crossed. But the thing was a hidden clause which required a lawyer to unearth, otherwise Nintendo would never have agreed to the contract, knowing Nintendo. I mean, for those who know Nintendo historically speaking. They don't treat the right to their fucking IPs lightly.

so following years of nitendo requireing other companies to follow shady terms. They agree to something with sony that put them at a disavantage instead of an advantage. Then it takes them 3 years to ralize it. and instead of renegotiating go and make a deal with someone else behind there back?

Sorry but considering nintendo was very good at contracts and agrements favorable to them, they should have taken care of it much sooner. Yes it was far to far in sony's favor, but that's why you negotiate better terms before agreeing.

From the thing you showed before it was in 88 and they came forward with philips in 91

How can sony hide a clause? Nintendo has a legal team and they shouldn't have agreed until they read it. This isn't congress shoving in last minute changes before a vote .