Nintendo Co is under fire from the Antitrust Subcommittee of the House of Representatives Small Business Committee, which found serious anti-trust questions in an investigation of Nintendo’s business practices in the US: Nintendo had US sales of $1,700m last year in a video games market put at $2,300m, and projects $2,600m this year in a market estimated at $3,400m, and is alleged to have enforced restrictive software agreements, created artificial shortages of games cartridges to push up prices, and put pressure on retailers not to sell competing products; its practice of installing a device in its games players that prevents them from running third party software was also questioned by the committee.
