S.T.A.G.E. on 29 June 2014
If everyone was smart and did their history it was third parties in the 80's and 90's who had to suck up to Nintendo. They had to deal with Nintendo for the longest. Nintendo likes to be in that position where people suck up to them. They never had their freedom until Sony came because Nintendo commanded the mass marketshare and they had nowhere else to go and Sega was gaining marketshare far too slowly.
