Sabotage? Bit of a strong word there. Nintendo has never been sabotaged by third party studios, at least not to any notable degree. There has never really been a situation where they have unreasonably treated Nintendo consoles. If anything, Nintendo's own decisions with their consoles have driven many of the AAA-developers and publishers away from their systems.
Wii was an undeniable success, and much of its success can be traced to its unique control scheme and relatively cheaper development costs compared to the PS3/360, but its that unique control style that also made many companies unwilling to port their games to the system because of the extra work it would have taken. The Wii U on the other hand was a failure entirely due to Nintendo's own poor handling of the system. Again, it has many excellent games, and I genuinely like the system, but I still think Nintendo did a very poor job with marketing it, and adding the pointless gimmick of a controller was a bad idea as well. Although I suppose it could be considered a trial run for the Switch in a way.
This isn't anything new with Nintendo. Ever since the N64 their decision with their console hardware has often done more to drive studios away rather than attract them to their platforms.
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