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Nintendo fights huge EU fine over SNES
Unless you're a member of the retro-gaming community, you probably never think about the SNES anymore. And yet, Nintendo is battling the EU over that very console all the way into 2008, following a hefty fine the EU laid down 6 years ago. In 2002, the EU accused Nintendo of price-fixing the SNES for several years in the 1990s, and sought to penalize them for their actions. They handed them a fine of 149.1 million Euros, a fine rivaled by very few others.
The EU asserts the fine was fair, whereas Nintendo claims it was not only unfair, but outright illegal. As a result, Nintendo is refusing to pay the draconian fine. That's quite a while to wait to fight back, but is still interesting.
The EU asserts the fine was fair, whereas Nintendo claims it was not only unfair, but outright illegal. As a result, Nintendo is refusing to pay the draconian fine. That's quite a while to wait to fight back, but is still interesting.
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User Comments (6)
Post a comment| fullmetalvegan on May 21, 2008 9:40 PM | lol - the EU love to fine everyone, geez. =P
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| fada on May 22, 2008 2:28 PM | Originally posted by fullmetalvegan: lol -
the EU love to fine everyone, geez. =P Ye americans
are to used to companies doing whatever they want and
getting away with it, wether they be anti-competitive or
harmful to the consumer, the E.U. is fineing someone for
breaking the law- it's as simple as that!
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| OUTLAWXXX on May 25, 2008 9:54 PM | Honestly the EU has got the tightest butt holes in the
WORLD!!! That entire place is annoying as fuck, They cry all
day when most other companies out compete them and I don't
care if you think they protecting you peeps over their from
big bad business, theres a lot more worse problems out
there, Ya we hate corruption when it reaches a point but
when you complain for stupid shit like "Microsoft bundles
windows media player with OS, OMG x100000!" Then your just a
bunch of whining losers... get over it EU
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| 9Nails on May 26, 2008 7:35 PM | Was the SNES making profit on console system sales or were
they using todays business model where loss on system sales
is recovered through software sales? I wonder if Apple, Bose and other known price fixers are targeted?
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| wyatt963 on May 30, 2008 1:35 PM | All of the game consoles are price fixed. Has any one seen
the xbox 360, PS3, or the Wi, for a price below the
suggested retail, and pretty much goes for any newly
released games as well. This has to be about the only
segment of the consumer market, where you can't shop around
for a better price, or sale
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| TimeParadoX on June 6, 2008 8:01 PM | This is a useless fine, Seeing how you can not find a SNES
ANYWHERE in stores except online. Who cares if they
price fixed it in the 90s, that was along time ago. :I
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