Did Nintendo save gaming with the NES?

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javi741 said:

Robert_Downey_Jr. said:
Nope. It was a crash but like the stock market gaming was always gonna come back. Nintendo happened to be at the right place at the right time and capitalized on a vacant market. The crash wasn't this long dark ages. It was like 2 years where things got saturated and new sales slowed down.

It wasn't going to comeback, Nintendo literally nearly killed themselves risking to put NES in retailers for free just so they could accept the NES in store shelves. 

That totally bypasses reality. The Famicom was released in Japan in mid 83 and quickly became a huge success. Nintendo only cautiously released the NES in the US in selected test markets before they went full out in mid to end 86 so they had already filled their pockets with 3 years worth of japanese money.

It is rather the other way around. Nintendo at the time was the only company who was able to ressurect the console gaming market in the US because they were the only company with the needed know how, third party backing of mostly japanese developers and most importantly the necessary fundings.