But Nintendo of America Inc faces a $105m damage law suit from American Video Entertainment Inc of San Jose, which alleges that the Japanese company violates antitrust laws since it dominates the home video entertainment business with an 80% market share, and that it is using its monopoly power to cause the bankruptcy of the San Jose firm: the company is a subsidiary of Macronix Inc and says that Macronix engineers in 1989 developed a technology that enabled manufacture of cartridges compatible with the 28m Nintendo game consoles in homes in the US, claiming that attempts by American Video to market its first 100,000 units with a retail value of approximately $3m were frustrated by Nintendo’s practices.
