Seriously, Nintendo is not THAT Important

[Mythmaker1]

ioi said:

I find the whole point and angle of this thread a little confusing.

Firstly, Nintendo makes more money than the gaming divisions of Sony and Microsoft combined so they won't be going anywhere any time soon.

Secondly, as others have said, no gaming company or indeed gaming itself is THAT important and everything can and usually will be replaced eventually. In a hypothetical situation in which Nintendo went bankrupt (which will never happen on their cash reserves alone) then all of their employees would obviously find work elsewhere so their games would live on in other forms.

If you are trying to somehow objectively quantify the contribution and importance of gaming companies in the industry then it is very hard not to place Nintendo as number one by any metric that you choose. They have sold far more games than any other publisher, won more awards, dominate every "best ever" poll and are more financially successful than all other publishers by a long long way. Those are hard facts.

There aren't any other forms of entertainment I can think of that have been dominated so much by one company for so long. On that basis, I would personally say yes, they are THAT important.

With regards to the first point, that's almost certainly true, though I'll be interested to see how they're doing at the end of the fiscal year.

With regards to the second, I'm not trying to say anthing other than what I did. That Nintendo isn't so important that they embody all quality and progress in the industry, and that they aren't so important to the industry that the whole thing will come crashing down if they fail.