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They had by far the biggest console on the market with the NES, so they used that to force third parties into exclusivity deals. That also carried over to the SNES. Even though the Mega Drive/Genesis put up one hell of a fight. The Playstation came along and games became cheaper to mass produce because they were on CDs and when it became a huge hit, the third parties had no problem leaving Nintendo in the dust.