Which company is the most essential one for console gaming?

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

C64 said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Nintendo cause without them, gaming wouldn't exist

Also, y isn't ouya on the list?

Nintendo in its early video gaming days just copied Atari. There was gaming before Nintendo and there will be gaming after Nintendo, they are just as replaceable as Sony or Microsoft. They are just a shadow of what they used to be anyway.

Well, of course there were other companies (like Atari) that did video games before Nintendo but they did it wrong. Atari and others basically flooded the market with shit games that were expensive and people hated it. Thats why there was a video game crash and the amount of effort Nintendo had to put in to bring NA into gaming again was redicules and I can go on forever as to how Nintendo saved gaming but you should watch some videos that does a better job at explaining what happened and its quite interesting btw (The second one is more on topic)

https://www.youtube.com/user/playvalue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ge1UzO2AQc&list=UUGAW_bqcFm33_N2ZmygvQsQ

And of course Nintendo is replacable, so is every other company, but I do think they are the most important company just like how others think their respective companies like Sony and MS are the most valuable to them which is perfectly fine with me... But its like what if Microsoft didn't exist? All the Apple fans would be like Apple would replace them instead, but would that lead to a better future? I think not

Agreed. Nintendo basically gave a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the gaming industry and brought it back to life far after it flatlined. 
If it wasn't for Nintendo, gaming would probably be an obscure hobby and nowhere near the level it is today.