{"id":61,"date":"2026-05-03T15:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/reggie-fils-aime-says-amazon-once-asked-nintendo-to-break-the-law\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T15:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T15:24:27","slug":"reggie-fils-aime-says-amazon-once-asked-nintendo-to-break-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/reggie-fils-aime-says-amazon-once-asked-nintendo-to-break-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"<div>Reggie Fils-Aim\u00e9 says Amazon once asked Nintendo to break the law<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A photo of the late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata and Reggie Fils-Aim\u00e9, former president of Nintendo of America, at E3 in 2004\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo by Susan Goldman \/ Bloomberg via Getty Images\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/25158242\/94827653.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\"><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Way back in the DS days, Nintendo decided to stop selling to Amazon. During a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/2761065620\">lecture at NYU<\/a>, former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aim\u00e9 said it was because Amazon was seeking preferential treatment that would have hurt its relationship with other retailers, and <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/reggie-fils-aime-says-nintendo-stopped-selling-to-amazon-after-being-asked-to-break-the-law-2000692699\">potentially broken the law<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The two sides have since <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/new-details-allegedly-revealed-about-nintendo-and-amazons-dispute\/\">made amends<\/a>, and you can buy a Switch 2 through Amazon. But for a long time, Nintendo consoles had been <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-amazon-wii-ds-relationship\/\">largely unavailable<\/a> on the site. In the 2000s, Amazon aggressively expanded beyond books and tried to undercut everyone on price. According to Fils-Aim\u00e9, Amazon wanted to undercut even Walmart and was looking  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/922840\/reggie-fils-aime-amazon-nintendo-illegal\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in the DS days, Nintendo decided to stop selling to Amazon. During a recent lecture at NYU, former<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[40,5,41,21,42,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-gadgets","category-gaming","category-news","category-nintendo","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}