https://www.resetera.com/posts/814401/
I know the main reason for companies is to earn money. But lets be honest. Even with this in mind companies have responsibilities. And one prime responsibility is to support a healthy market with competition. There are even institutions to avoid syndicates. There are not many players in the devoted gaming scene. Every software publisher has the responsibility to support every patform holder in a reasonable way.
Every software publisher has the responsibility to support every patform holder in a reasonable way.
For example EA wanted Sega to leave the scene so they did not release their sports games on the dreamcast. I still hate them for that. This is not a buisiness decision it's politics.
what is this i don't even
i'll ignore the assumption that EA didn't support the Dreamcast specifically to spite Sega (which then became a third party which put its games out on every platform EA was and directly damaged EA's sports lines for years, including driving EA effectively from the field in the second most popular American video game sports line, the NBA) for reasons beyond business to use another example
tons of Western publishers told Nintendo to fuck off for years of their publishing practices not solely the cost of cartridge prices, this created Sega's market share in the first place which led to Sony's eventual dominance, so Nintendo not only dropped the price on cartridges but their publishing limitations
across all their platforms which led to EA/Activision/Ubisoft/etc. among others not only putting out ports of most of their PS1 titles on the N64, but the market for the GB/GBC/GBA being flooded with so much absolute garbage that multiple gaming publications outright stated they were no longer going to bother to even attempt to keep up with it and a number even showed pictures of the pile of shit they would receive for the GBC/GBA especially, Nintendo Power didn't even bother to fill their page count with them during the N64/GCN famines!