| Lastgengamer said: Bold words from Sony especially when it was Nintendo that saved the gaming industry from collapse and kept this form of entrainment around. While Sony did expand the industry which was good thing for us gamers. I'd say it was Atari and Nintendo that really deserve all the credit for legitimizing video games as entertainment since they were the ones that made games mainstream in the first place. |
As much as I loved Atari (the original company), it's hard for me to give them that credit when it was very possible they might have destroyed the industry altogether. Nintendo did originally come to Atari to ask if they would market the NES and share profits. Atari refused, the NES was release in the U.S. by Nintendo themselves, and the rest is history. What if Nintendo never released the NES in the U.S.? I don't think Atari would have done to the market what Nintendo did and later how SONY pushed it. Because of Atari's past failings both pre and post Nintendo, I don't think they would have handle the market well. If nothing else Atari could have ironically delegitimized gaming by their screw ups.
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