| javi741 said: Also, to the people that keep claiming "the gaming industry was fine without Nintendo in Europe" take a look at this chart:
Around HALF of Europe's entire video game revenue today us driven by console gaming. Nintendo made gaming bigger than ever than Europe with console gaming and PC gaming wouldn't have done shit to make gaming as big. Nintendo is the reason why the European Juggernaut Playstation exists which make gaming big all over Europe including Eastern Europe. |
Yeah I'll add to this as a lot of people often try to peg the home computer market as gaming being fine when in actual fact in the lead up to the 00s it was heading into problems, the PC market that took over from HCs ran into massive problems in the 00s developers couldn't make money due to rampant piracy and PC gaming wasn't very user friendly at the time meaning not as many people got into it. To reference how bad the situation was EA in 00s infamously declared PCs as a dead platform for gaming it took Steam to turn things around but even then it needed six to seven years to really get going and fix the platform's problems which was around 2008.
The point of this is consoles were what was keeping gaming going at that point no consoles in this period means the industry would have crashed again so even then people can't really say gaming would still be going with out what the NES brought as the alternative ran into a situation that would have caused another crash the only objective is that gaming is still here because of the NES.
