Game_God said:
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Back in the day when Nintendo created a boom in the industry they put a key lock system into the systems to prevent third parties from making games for competitors and control their licenses. Third parties lived in fear of screwing the pooch with Nintendo because they had them under a vice grip. The only reason people didnt bitch at Nintendo was because of their marketshare. Its because of them why Sega was forced to make so much first party just to survive. Any competition would be starved of games because Nintendo did what they did. It wasnt until the Playstation came around that Nintendo's curse was lifted from the industry (after their licensing was stopped). Nintendo was sued for breaking the anti-trust laws of America because Atari thought they were creating a monopoly. Nintendo was not found to be monopolizing the industry but the judge saw that Nintendo should let go of their vice grip with their licensing and keylock over third parties which allowed third parties to go to their platform of choice.
There is more about Nintendo, but i'll just leave it at this.
