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. |
There's just one big problem with this premise: Gaming didn't need saving, as gaming was totally fine. The only thing that crashed was the US or north American console market, but gaming itself was not affected. People were gaming on their Computers over in Europe and America before and after the crash without any changes, Japanese on their consoles, and all of them in the Arcades, which were very popular even during the crash. If what you said was true, then there wouldn't be a Wikipedia page of videogames in 1984, since that's after the crash, but before the NES released in the west. But there is. And gaming was actually thriving. Just not on consoles in North America anymore.
Saying that Nintendo saved gaming is like saying Apple saved phones with the launch of the iPhone
The Nintendo eShop rating Thread: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=237454 List as Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aW2hXQT1TheElVS7z-F3pP-7nbqdrDqWNTxl6JoJWBY/edit?usp=sharing
The Steam/GOG key gifting thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/242024/the-steamgog-key-gifting-thread/1/
Free Pc Games thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/248138/free-pc-games/1/