Next-Gen looks at the company's history in the last 25 years. The company has been characterised by an eagerness to take risks, and yet it is the world's most profitable game company. How does Nintendo do it?
The real Nintendo hallmark has never been the Seal Of Quality, or Mario's moustache, or Miyamoto's cheesy grin: ever since the launch of the NES it's been the yen.
The one, unshakable constant in Nintendo's quarter-century of videogame production has been profit. In the decade after the launch of the company's first console, its share of the gaming market topped 90 per cent, and its profits rose inexorably to supply Game Over author David Sheff with his famous estimate that it earned $2 million for each and every employee.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
New report from Skillsearch found that 22% of those surveyed had been laid off within the past 12 months.
It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
Cool? I guess.
Wow, that was the best opinion article I have ever read on N4G.com ever!
Sure it was about Nintendo, but it didn't claim a dumb hypothesis that the Wii or DS would be the best system ever!
I was disappointed the article did not mention more of the technology standpoint of Nintendo however. Meaning their decision to not push the technology if it was still not yet affordable to the consumer. Overall, it was still great, and I'm glad it wasn't written to push some fanboy buttons.
Great article loved the point in which Nintendo pushed the "Quality" over "Quantity" argument.Live and learn i guess,Gameplay is king in my book,and in Nintendo's.Good Job Long Live Nintendo!!!