SvennoJ said:
Nautilus said:
Yeah... It did save gaming, for sure.
As said before, if Nintendo didn't do it, someone else would, as entertainment is part of human culture. But many gaming companies went bankrupt at the time, and everything seemed bleak, then Nintendo came and proved once and for all that gaming had a future.
Myst, the game you kept going on about?It first launched in 1993 on MAC, many years AFTER Nintendo already launched the NES and saved gaming. Hell, the Super Nintendo was already out. Nintendo already brought back the industry and made it more popular than ever before that game you went on. The same was for this Populous.It launched way after the NES hit stores shelves everywhere, since the NES launched in 85 in the Americas and 86 in Europe. By then, the reputation to gaming was already restored and was already walking into it was today, so of course those games did well.
All your examples came after Nintendo fixed everything up. So yeah, they saved gaming.
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So Nintendo fixed Amiga 500 sales and started Bullfrog so they could produce Populous...
They also fixed Sierra online so they could keep producing mainly PC adventures like they were doing before the 'crash'
Sierra entertainment was founded in 1979, Bullfrog in 1987 but they didn't develop for the NES, it was licensed to be ported to the SNES after the game had won awards and proved to be successful. Same happened to Metal Gear, success first then ported to the NES (drastically altered btw)
Lucasfilm games was doing fine as well (Maniac mansion) also got ported to the NES later (A port for the Nintendo Entertainment System had to be reworked heavily, in response to complaints by Nintendo of America that the game was inappropriate for children)
NES got a lot of (mangled) ports from already successful games. Great save!
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Nothing exists in a vacuum. Yeah, Nintendo brought gaming as a whole, and that also helped the popularity of PC gaming, even if on a smaller scale. That also applies to other gaming consoles.
People jumped in/invested in gaming because Nintendo showed them it can be profitable and sustainable, which made poeple make games for both the NES and other gaming consoles(obviously after the NES and Super Mario Bros was a gigantic success).
I should also mention, because it seems that if I don't say anything about everything people don't get it, that while Nintendo saved gaming, it's not like it was completely defunct. Arcade was doing reasonably well and it's not like gaming didn't sell a single copy until the NES came. Their sales were just so stupidly low(even a few million for a console, considering that you needed tyo invest alot, was rather low back in the day) that you couldn't considered that a success, even if there were a few exceptions.
So yeah, yet again, Nintendo saves the day!
