S.Peelman said:
kupomogli said:
Soundwave said:
A legend. That's the only way to describe his impact.
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He had a stranglehold on the video game market and forced publishers and developers to stay exclusive to Nintendo by threatining that they wouldn't be able to publish games on Nintendo consoles.
Additionally, he made it so only a couple of games could be published on Nintendo consoles per year, forcing developers to create additional publishing companies, paying more money for additional publishing rights to Nintendo, in order to get more games out per year.
He's the reason why Squaresoft didn't release anything for Nintendo comsoles from 1997 through most of 2002.
Some legend.
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Take a wild guess why he did what he did and what the implications of those actions were.
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Not allowing multiple games released in one year. Less shovelware. It could be got around by offering Nintendo more money as a different publisher. Example. Konami/Ultra. Same company as a different publishers to get around and release multiple games.
Nintendo's dictatorship over third parties killed a lot of companies that couldn't get support. Sega released a lot of great titles, they ported a lot of third party arcade games, etc. You can only do so much as one company versus one company with a bunch of third party companies that develop only for that company. See Playstation 2 against the Gamecube. The only difference was that Sony didn't force developers and publishers into a contract. The PS2 was just the more popular system at the time. It was fair between PS2 and Gamecube, wasn't fair with what Nintendo did against other companies at the time. Laws didn't crack down as hard back then as they did in the future about monopolies either, otherwise Nintendo would have been fined. Between Nintendo stranglehold on the market and Sony being extremely popular, they had more of a hand in Sega dropping out of compmetition than Sega's own stupidity.
Squaresoft not developing for Nintendo from 1997-2002. What good came from this? It just shows that he was too proud to get Squaresoft back on Nintendo's good side. Once Iwata became president he smoothed things over with Squaresoft which got them to start developing games for the company again.
So the only good thing that really came of it was the possibility of less shovelware to the NES and SNES, which didn't stop shovelware from coming. Nintendo benefited from everything while posing a threat to the gaming industry by trying to become a monopoly.