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by kd5bjo 2769 days ago
Not forever. This all started with the death of Atari, which was commonly blamed on poor-quality 3rd-party games ruining their reputation with consumers.

I haven't looked into the history enough to judge whether this perception is accurate in hindsight. Like most things, I expect it's a lot messier than the popular narrative.

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As I said, “for over 30 years”.

It started at least with the original Nintendo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC_(Nintendo)