Thank cats for Nintendo breaking that agreement. They essentially gave us Playstation. Despite owning an NES and SNES, I didn't fall in love with gaming until the PS1, so it's obvious where I stand on this.
The thing that I wonder about is if Nintendo's tyrannical third-party regulations would have still been in place. Nintendo made game developers pay them for making cartridges and set quantity limits as they pleased but CD manufacturing was an entirely different dynamic. It's interesting to think about.








