Overall, Nintendo's overt favoring of certain business partners, the first-party developers, disrupted their relationships with other business partners, the third-party developers. This disruption actively discouraged businesses from wanting to work with Nintendo, gave the impression that Nintendo did not value their work and contributions, and created a scenario that lead to a failed product launch for Nintendo, as the Wii U launched with few games and fewer have been developed for it in the past 15 months, making the Wii U a difficult sale.
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