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[pokoko]

KLAMarine said:

Ali_16x said:

Jesus Christ that post about Nintendo fans is so true.

Must we resort to this?

pokoko said:

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.  

Right. Still, you made reference to illegal tactics that hurt Sega.

pokoko said:

Sega, a company that was hurt very badly by Nintendo's illegal tactics in the US

What tactics were you referring to?

Uh ... huh?  I thought we were having a conversation but ... huh?  I guess we haven't actually been communicating?  Odd.  Unless you're trying to do some 'console warz' thing, in which case you completely fooled me.  Congrats, I guess.  How disappointing.