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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - 'Nintendo could be on a path to irrelevance', says Atari founder

bananaking21 on 06 September 2013
snyps said:
Nintendo has been no. 1 for almost 30 years and been around for over a century! Ppl like atari, nokia, etc.. were a flash in the pan.


nokia certainly werent a "flash in the pan". i always disliked the company and its phones and refused to ever consider buying one for as long as i can remember but even i cant say they were a flash in the pan



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kirby007 on 06 September 2013

i do fear for nintendo not hopping in on online and mobiles but this guy is very grim



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gatito on 06 September 2013

Who?



Proxy-Pie on 06 September 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y37tPc08v90

Atari tried to hack Nintendo at some point XD



snyps on 06 September 2013
bananaking21 said:
snyps said:
Nintendo has been no. 1 for almost 30 years and been around for over a century! Ppl like atari, nokia, etc.. were a flash in the pan.


nokia certainly werent a "flash in the pan". i always disliked the company and its phones and refused to ever consider buying one for as long as i can remember but even i cant say they were a flash in the pan



My gut is telling me Nokia was only no. 1 as a phone maker for 5 years. That's short.



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bananaking21 on 06 September 2013
kirby007 said:
i do fear for nintendo not hopping in on online and mobiles but this guy is very grim


he does make one really good point however. he says that nintedo has a strong name with the people that are aged 12 and younger, and that the other guys (ms/sony) have a strong name with gamers aged 12 and older, and thats true. and it is true that Sony and MS are getting more popular with younger gamers but nintendo is making no to little progress with older gamers



VGPolyglot on 06 September 2013

I have never seen anyone compare the Jaguar's sales with the Wii U's. Didn't it only sell around 200-500k?



bananaking21 on 06 September 2013
snyps said:
bananaking21 said:
snyps said:
Nintendo has been no. 1 for almost 30 years and been around for over a century! Ppl like atari, nokia, etc.. were a flash in the pan.


nokia certainly werent a "flash in the pan". i always disliked the company and its phones and refused to ever consider buying one for as long as i can remember but even i cant say they were a flash in the pan



My gut is telling me Nokia was only no. 1 as a phone maker for 5 years. That's short.

im pretty sure they were number 1 for a much longer time



Talal on 06 September 2013
snyps said:
bananaking21 said:
snyps said:
Nintendo has been no. 1 for almost 30 years and been around for over a century! Ppl like atari, nokia, etc.. were a flash in the pan.


nokia certainly werent a "flash in the pan". i always disliked the company and its phones and refused to ever consider buying one for as long as i can remember but even i cant say they were a flash in the pan



My gut is telling me Nokia was only no. 1 as a phone maker for 5 years. That's short.


"Nokia was the world's largest vendor of mobile phones from 1998 to 2012."

Also Nintendo hasn't been number 1 for 30 years in home consoles and he's talking about the Wii U so handhelds are irrelevant.



Incubi on 06 September 2013

I remember when Nintendo went under after the release of Virtual Boy. They became instantly irrelevant.