| numberwang said: Yamauchi did turn Nintendo from a game card producing company into a commercial giant. However his antagonism with Sony and the Playstation project opened the door for his greatest competitor and permanently diminished Nintendo's dominant position in the gaming market. His old philosophy of third parties as obedient servants worked in Japan in the 80s but not anymore on a global market with western studios.
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Actually, the third party policies were introduced to west with NES. Nintendo faced the same problems with Famicom in Japan as Atari faced in US with having no control over who could release games on the system. It was the NES10 lockout chip that mostly prevented the unlicensed games being released on NES. Nintendo also followed itself the same rules it forced on the 3rd parties.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
