21.05.2008 20:51 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Nintendo pushes back against 149.1 million Euro fine

Filed under: GamingThe EU has doled out some pretty hefty fines in the past, but it looks like Nintendo is pushing back against the one it got slapped with back in 2002, with the company now saying that it was "unfair, illegal, even shocking." That fine (some 140.1 milion Euros, or about $220 million), was the result of some alleged price fixing on Nintendo's part back during the SNES-fueled glory days of 1991 to 1998, during which time European Union regulators say Nintendo colluded with seven different distributors to raise hardware and software prices. For its part, the EU commision maintains that the fine "was not of a capric

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