KLAMarine said:
Interesting read but I'm wondering how this hurt Sega... |
I shouldn't have said illegal because, as far as I've read, the charge that Nintendo's exclusive contracts were an anti-trust violation was never settled. Still, they dropped those, probably to avoid future litigation, though that's a guess. Or maybe they had an inkling that third-parties would leave them because of those contracts. I believe EA said they were fully prepared to go PC-only rather than work under those conditions. Or maybe they thought they had won the war and didn't need them. Square said Nintendo let Final Fantasy go without a fight so maybe they felt untouchable.
Either way, it's kind of interesting. Personally, I agree with the charge that they used those 2-year exclusive contracts to keep their monopoly. It all became moot, anyway, though I can't help but wonder if the methods they used to gain power caused that power to decay faster than it should have.
