Actually, the point was to prevent unauthorized self-publishing... This is what doomed the market in 1983, people made so much shovelware and shipped to actual

Actually, the point was to prevent unauthorized self-publishing... This is what doomed the market in 1983, people made so much shovelware and shipped to actual stores, that when someone arrived on a store and grabbed a random title, it was 99% of chance of it being utter crap, thus people stopped going to stores. Nintendo that came up with the idea to just outright make hard as possible for people to self-publish games, going to the extent of even limiting large publishers amount of allowed games per year. Thanks to indie renaissance this is being relaxed now, but not too much... Companies are still scared by the prospect of repeating 1983 or repeating iTunes (that has thousands of shovelware games and discoverability outright suck)