Let's put it this way, they aren't exactly very fit to compete against two giant corporations who do this stuff basically because they can. They try to rely on their own ideas to turn a profit, and can't really afford a prolonged race with the two when it comes to wasting a ton of money. It's not in Nintendo's best interest to fight them. It would most likely be a losing battle.
Going in a more insane route for the alternative, but the others could see the greater amount money being dumped as a potential issue to cut that certain division off their chain. It's not exactly worth much to them compared to everything else, so they could actually back out first. I'm sure that won't happen any time soon though considering how much they waste altogether anyways.
The other side of it though is that Iwata shouldn't really be too blunt about it. It just doesn't look good for shareholders. This also shows that they might not understand that competition drives people to succeed. They got the other competitors no matter what they say, so it's in there best interest to at least play a long even a little bit.
Yeah... I'm no expert compared to the real business owners, but it seems logical to me to shut up about this stuff, and just play a long and incorporate some of your opponents better ideas. You don't have to go full on copy mode, but it's not so bad to get a better infrastructure down for online components and otherwise.
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