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Reggie Fils-Aimé says Amazon once asked Nintendo to break the law

Amazon pushed Nintendo for illegal preferential treatment during the DS era, prompting Nintendo to stop selling consoles to Amazon entirely.

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  • Reggie Fils-Aimé Reveals Amazon Pressured Nintendo to Break the Law During DS Era
  • Amazon once pushed Nintendo to give it illegal preferential treatment, former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé said during a recent lecture at NYU. Fils-...
  • During the mid-2000s, Amazon was hungry for dominance in consumer electronics and saw Nintendo’s wildly popular DS handheld as a key wedge. But Fils-Aimé revealed that...
  • Nintendo’s response was surgical: it simply cut Amazon out. For years, major hardware launches—including the DS and Wii—bypassed Amazon, forcing consumers toward brick...

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