Posts tagged price-fixing 
Nintendo price-fixing fine reduced by 30 million euros
In 2002, the European Union levied a €167.8 million fine against Nintendo and a group of distributors for artificially boosting prices of Nintendo hardware and software from 1991-1998. Nintendo's share of that: €149.5 million, an amount that Nintendo described as "unfair, illegal, [and] ev...
DS screen manufacturer accused of price fixing
We reported back in February that Sharp and Hitachi, two tech industry juggernauts who are responsible for supplying the DS with its LCD screens, were under investigation for their suspected collusion to control the price of said screens. Earlier this week, the Japan Fair Trade Commission conclude...
Nintendo unhappy about price-fixing ruling
In 2002, the European Commission fined Nintendo (and seven distributors presumably associated with the company) 167.8 million Euros ($262 million), after ruling that Nintendo failed to regulate the prices set by distributors between 1991 and 1998. Unsurprisingly, Nintendo is displeased. They're prot...
DS LCD screen makers investigated for price fixing
When video game makers fix prices for consumers, it's considered the normal state of business. When LCD makers fix prices for game makers, they get raided by the Japanese Fair Trade Commission. So it goes. AFP has the report on the investigation on screen-makers Sharp and Hitachi, which have long be...
A DS Lite screen cartel?
Japan's Fair Trade Commission has conducted an investigation of Sharp and Hitachi Displays Ltd. in response to accusations that the two companies have unfairly fixed prices of LCD displays for DS Lites (in what AFX News Kaori Kaneko referred to as a "cartel"). The organization searched both companie...
