Seriously, Nintendo is not THAT Important

[ninetailschris]

Super_Boom said:

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.

Not to piggyback or anything, but this pretty much summed up my thoughts on the subject. Especially your 2nd point. I don't think any of the big gaming publishers are absolutely irreplacable, but that doesn't mean Nintendo isn't one of the most prominent.

Also, reading some of the comments here, there seems to be a lot of stereotyping the entire fandom by a vocal minority. Can we...not do that? Every fandom's got these, I don't know why only Nintendo warrants these types of comments.

Just wanted to clap that used stereotype instead of generalize. I hate when people misuse words. 

On-topic if third party could get there games on apple products or any PC, why would they need Sony or Microsoft? Both would die a fast death. Ironically clouding gaming in 2-3 will be able to do this. On-live isn't even comparable to stuff were going to see than. I'm in college going for bs in cyber security and some of stuff were learning about cloud gaming/in general makes consoles look like dinosaurs.