Rank the Presidents of Nintendo

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numberwang said:

These policies might have worked in the 80s but the moment a bigger fish appeared (Sony) with better services, everyone was eager to jump ship. Konami, Square, Namco etc. moved to the PlayStation asap. Nintendo wanted to push expensive N64 cartridges to 3rd parties when cheap CDs became Nr. 1 medium of storage. Yamauchi overplayed his hands here. Nintendo could win the retail shelf space war against smaller companies like SEGA or ATARI but not against Sony or Microsoft.  Everybody has anti-piracy measures and some form of lock down, that was not the issue here. Even today, Nintendo is developing their hardware foremost with their own games in mind and 3rp parties have to eat what they get.

Well, there already were bigger fish, such as NEC and Philips. Microsoft already had Windows and MSX. Sony was smart enough to do things differently than Nintendo did. Cartriges or discs weren't the issue - GameCube had mini-DVD's and did worse than N64, whereas Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS had carts, just like Switch. N64 had mainly two problems: N64 was released so late that the competition had a good headstart and Nintendo's "dreamteam" of publishers who were allowed/invited to develop for the system. If Nintendo's policies had not been ok with the publishers, they had not developed for NES or SNES, like some of publishers did not do it.