Folanlron
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That's not entirely true, one of the claimed root causes of the 2600 crash was developers dumping shovelware out into the market.
One of Nintendo's US-branch rules were that each third party could only release five games per year, with the hope being that only the five best games per publisher would make it over here as a result. (Note the implicit assumption even then that only Japanese devs mattered.) On the US publisher side, there's no guarantee any of the five would be any good (why, hello there LJN), and on the Japanese side, the biggest publishers just made secondary 'publishers' when needed to get around the rule. (E.g. the NES Metal Gear was published by the Ultra subsidiary of Konami, not Konami itself.)
It worked so great ya.. that instead of people going thru Nintendo's channels, they just reversed engineered, was dead simple even compared too the 2600..