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Former Nintendo of America boss cut off Amazon's supply of Wii and DS consoles due to "obscene" demands: "I wasn't going to do something illegal"
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Former Nintendo of America boss cut off Amazon's supply of Wii and DS consoles due to "obscene" demands: "I wasn't going to do something illegal"

Eurogamer.net·Vikki Blake·29 days ago
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"You're not going to push me around." Image credit: Nintendo Former Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aimé , claims stock pressure and "obscene" demands contributed to the company withdrawing the sale of Wii and DS systems on Amazon. Addressing guests at the NYU Game Centre lecture series , Fils-Aimé reflected on pressure Amazon had placed on Nintendo for "an obscene amount of support [...] so they could have the lowest price and beat Walmart". Nintendo Switch 2 - Official Launch Trailer. Watch on YouTube "At that time, just in the Americas, I was selling ten million Wiis, DS' a year. We're driving a lot of revenue," Fils-Aimé said. "We had a lot of scale. And, at the time, Amazon was looking to get bigger into the video game space. Amazon's mentality back then was that they wanted to have the lowest price out in the marketplace, even lower than Walmart. "One of their executives called me...…

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