Iwata: Nintendo Wants To "Suprise Gamers" With NX

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MikeRox said:

Soundwave said:

The NES probably was the Playstation 4 of its day. The Sega Master System (ironically) is basically what Nintendo has turned their console division into (niche side product, no third party support, great 1st party games). 

Wasn't the reason the Master System had so little (it did have some) 3rd party support, due to the fact that Nintendo forced all 3rd party NES developers to be exclusive to them?

Yes, Yamauchi insisted that the NES/Famicom be designed with a lockout chip. In order to get a license to develop on the NES, third parties basically had to agree not to develop games for anyone else. Hence the NES basically had 100% exclusivity over most major third party IP releases. 

Nintendo was fairly ruthless in the 80s/90s, lol, not only that, Nintendo actively bullied retailers into not even carrying Sega products. By the early 90s, they started to get heat/blow back for their monopolistic practises and were forced to back off.