If you hate Nintendo that much, I wonder why you comment here???
Everytime you post T37DUCK, it's to badmouth Nintendo... I understand you run the tech side of the site, it must be hell to do that on a Nintendo one since you only show dislike towards Nintendo...
Nintendo never paid, bribed 3rd party companies to stay away from Sega or sony consoles, while I'm aware of the shady past practices practices from Nintendo under the iron fist rule of late Hiroshi Yamauchi, it's sadly true that they used their dominant position to force plenty of hands, on the retail side too you forgot to mention, since you're on a mission to paint that evil painting of Nintendo.
What you forgot to mention is this was 30 years ago when business pratices were much harder, coming from a man... well everyone knows how a hardballer Yamauchi was... he never hid it, didn't sugarcoat it & certainly was never quoted hypocritically distribuing verbal pats on the back while handing money to 3rd parties to stay away from the competition devices.
3rd party companies thrived under Yamauchi iron fist rule, few games a year meant quality titles & a tight schedule where titles were released not telescoping each other, giving room & money for everyone, instead of having more then half of high profile games getting released in November/December...
Sorry to call you like that but if you can say that Nintendo is in the same backstabbing league of sony with a straight face, either you are ignorant or your loath of Nintendo blinds you...
Cheers, keep up the good work on the tech side of Go Nintendo, where I have no problem saying that you really are ace ;)