Which company is the most essential one for console gaming?

[Ljink96]

Conina said:

Ljink96 said:
Nintendo should be accredited for creating a simple system that is still in place today. Without the clinkity clankity silicon work that was the Nintendo Entertainment System... videogames would never have been so good. Not only at what they were but as an evolutionary process. We as a gaming community owe Nintendo, but lately...

Why? The NES was not the first home console.

I am well aware of this but how many Odysseys and Ataris have lived to see 2014? How many Fairchild's and ZX Spectrums can say that they have revived a market that was so far gone? None of them. The NES was the beginning of the gaming revolution and everyone who is a gamer should know that.