Is Nintendo now the name people most associate most with videogames?

[Cheebee]

theprof00 said:

Cheebee said:
Hmm. I suppose it is, though perhaps not as strongly as back in the early 90's, when Nintendo was synonymous with videogames. Most people would just say 'I'm going to play some Nintendo', even if they'd play games on another console.
But the Playstation brand is still strong, too, although it's lost a LOT of its recognition in recent years.
However, besides Nintendo, I think 'Wii' is a word that's becoming more and more synonymous with videogaming, at least among the general public, excluding hardcore gamers.

I think they said nintendo all the time because the system was actually called nintendo (NES)

That's true, but people called it Nintendo, even when referring to different machines (aka non-Nintendo ones), and continued to do so right through the SNES era. Of course, the birth of the PS1 changed that, but even afterwards, well into the N64 era, I noticed tons of people mentioning 'Nintendo', when referring to videogames in general, especially parents and older people.