Did Nintendo save gaming with the NES?

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Nautilus said:

tack50 said:

No I do not. Let us clarify. They saved console gaming in North America. But North America =/= console gaming at large.

And it isn't an inevitability like I said. With no NES or a flop, maybe the SMS takes its place. Or the Game Boy revives the market. Or the SNES/MD or possibly even the PSX.

Neither Europe nor Japan were affected. The former had a small console market until the PSX and the latter never had a crash either.

That's kinda stupid to say.If Benjamin Franklin haven't discovered electricity, someone else would. If Einstein didn't develop his theories that would lead to the atomic bomb, someone else would.

The fire that burned the Alexandria library set humanity back 500 hundred years, not forever.People eventually discovered/invented all those things again.

Same for gaming. Someone else would bring it back from the dead, if Nintendo didn't do it. That dosen't diminish or nullifies the accomplishment of the people and/or companies that did it first.The fact that Nintendo saved the industry(first, if you wanna look it that way) when they did, using the vision and the courage they had, is just an indisputable fact.

Maybe in some people's reality magic exists.