| yushire said: I never thought Nintendo's monopoly in the 80's was worse than I thought, so Nintendo controls the cartridge production? How the hell did they get away with this?!! |
They created the market with their own risk, they did whatever they want to grow. Yamauchi founded an empire with the Nes.
That monopoly was good because console gaming was seen as a fad until 1991. However Nintendo was/is greedy and third-party relationship was deteriorated in early '90 ( famous is the humiliation suffered by Nakamura , Namco CEO ( namco was one of the biggest 3rd party at that time) by the hand of pimpy Yamauchy regardi renewal contracting ).
The console-war between Nintendo and Sega in 16 bit era was a bad event for the industry. Then came Sony to fix the 3rd party porblem. Now Nintendo disrupt again the industry.
“In the entertainment business, there are only heaven and hell, and nothing in between and as soon as our customers bore of our products, we will crash.” Hiroshi Yamauchi
TAG: Like a Yamauchi pimp slap delivered by Il Maelstrom; serving it up with style.
