I believe #10 is just BS. Nobody enters an industry out of revenge.

I think they entered for the same reason they partnered with Nintendo to begin with. They wanted to make money off of the licensing.

#2 is nice to know

I only knew 2/10.

6/10.

Lol@ centaur Mario. That would have been interesting...

"It's almost surprising that Nintendo, which has zero qualms about pulling products, didn't just yank the GameCube since it understood it would be third place."

The Wii didn't come around overnight. They needed something to sell in between. Duh.

@Liquidninja: It wasn't out of revenge. If you'd have the tech in your hands, into which you invested tens (hundreds?) of millions and your customer would say "fuck it", what would you do? Leave it there and mark up the losses or tried to make your investment to make money? Sony did the latter.
There was also Play Station (counting in PSP, PS3 actually is fifth Playstation), that could play SNES games and games for the new CD format, that was released by Sony. Nintendo tried to pull it out from the market with court order, but Sony won the case (due to Sony and Nintendo having a contract) and Sony pulled the Play Station out from the market, after Nintendo threatened Sony that it wouldn't buy sound processors for SNES from Sony anymore.

@Perpride: Nobody believed Nintendo even back then. Everybody thought Nintendo was just making PR twists, but in retrospect, what Yamauchi and Iwata talked about suddenly makes sense. This doesn't mean that Nintendo hadn't aimed maximising GC sales, but they weren't competing for the market share.

I knew 10, 9, and 4.

Good enough...

I didn't know 7 & 8, but I don't know why people should know #7.

i knew three of them and kinda the second one ,

I knew all but #7 and #6.