| AnthonyW86 said: Sony, they made gaming more mainstream and appealing to the more mature audience, and stepped up the game of integrating new technology in consoles. Did Nintendo bring console gaming back from the dead and back in the living room? Yes. Would it have come back from the dead without them? Yes aswell. |
It would? Are you sure? Because investors and retailers had basically blackballed funding and sehlf space for anything video game. Nintendo circumvented this problem with 2 actions. 1, they called it an entertainment system rather than video game system. 2, they did a major campaign in NYC at a retailer to test the market for video game consoles again and blew them away.
Had anyone else tried it and used the terms video games or not used a test market...or had the incredible Super Mario Bros to display it with, I don't think it would have ever come back. At least not in the form that we know it today. It would be something very different. I suspect the computer industry would be the closest entity to have revitalized the industry but even they suffered pretty hard at first.
And while the crash largely affected the US, it was certainly felt in Japan and Europe as well. You don't have a global industry go from $3 billion in revenue one year to $100 milion the next year without it affecting everything.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
