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celine on 08 July 2008

Nintendo manufactured the cartridge for third-party.
Make Nintendo angry and you didn't see the cartridge to sells your games.
Retailers like Toy'r us depended heavily on Nintendo products ( if I remember correctly 20% of Toy r us profits were depeding on Nintendo at that time ) so make Nintendo angry and you didn't see popular Nintendo products.

EDIT: You can undestrand why Nintendo went with cartridge with N64 now. Nintendo made a lot of good and bad decisions in its history but always trying to maximize their profits ( while Sega was obesed to be the next Nintendo, be the number one )

 



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disolitude on 08 July 2008

Haha. You can only have a monopoli if 3rd parties make games for your system... Back in the NES days nintendo contolled 3rd party supply to the market. Today they can't get any to make games for their system.



Rock_on_2008 on 08 July 2008

A Nintendo monopoly on gaming would be terrible. Little or no innovation, high game prices due to no competition in the market place.



celine on 08 July 2008

It's impossible to any manufacturer to be dominat in marketshare and 3rd party influence like Nintendo of '80 just because of the dimension of that market compared to that of nowadays.
Nintendo monopoly was a good thing in '80 because console gaming needed it at that time for historic reasons.

However if you analyze Nintendo of nowadays with Nintendo of '80 you can see that Iwata's Nintendo is more powerful lthought it will NEVER achieve 90 - 95 % of marketshare.



 “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.

kylohk on 08 July 2008

^I agree. MS and Sony have such good brand names that each could at least scrape a piece of the cake this gen. If Nintendo WERE to get over 90% marketshare, you'd find antitrust cases popping up.



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yushire on 08 July 2008

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?!!



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E3 2008- Armageddon. Wii motion plus introduced. Wii Music. Reggie says Animal crossing was a core game. Massive disappointment. many Wii core gamers selling their Wii.

 

E3 2010- Tape runs out

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celine on 08 July 2008
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.

yushire on 08 July 2008

What happened during the Nakamura Yamaguchi thing? please tell me the insights, sorry too lazy to research on it on the net...



end of core gaming days prediction:

 

E3 2006-The beginning of the end. Wii introduced

 

E3 2008- Armageddon. Wii motion plus introduced. Wii Music. Reggie says Animal crossing was a core game. Massive disappointment. many Wii core gamers selling their Wii.

 

E3 2010- Tape runs out

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/march2009/ICG_Tape_runs_out.jpg

bardicverse on 08 July 2008
disolitude said:
Haha. You can only have a monopoli if 3rd parties make games for your system... Back in the NES days nintendo contolled 3rd party supply to the market. Today they can't get any to make games for their system.

*slap* Knock it off, you're not that dumb to post such an ignorant line.

 



Just_Ben on 08 July 2008
bardicverse said:
Sony and MS will continue making gaming systems, and I wouldn't be shocked to see Apple joining the industry soon. As much as I dislike Sony's business practices (aka lying, deceiving customers), they will be around in the industry for a long time yet. So, no, I don't forsee Nintendo being a monopoly again. I DO see them returning to the popularity level they had pre- PS 1 tho.

I am still shocked that this thing is still believed. The Gaming Industry doesn't fit to Apple and vice verca. Apple is a company making luxary design and lifestyle "computing" products. You can do that with telephones, televisions, computers, laptops, MP3players, watches and a lot of other things. It doesn't work that well in the gaming industry. Yes it is really that simple.

 



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