If" legitimized" means "sold a lot of consoles", then yeah.

Legitimate means ( I checked ) to make legal. And gaming has had some restrictions but I am sure that it never needed to be legalized. (May be addictive but is not weed). What I think  he was trying to say is that they made gaming a form of entertainment as common as TV, music or film and that's not true. Not even Nintendo can claim such a thing.

I think Nintendo made gaming a little bit more socially acceptable as a form entertainment this generation. But I feel that most people still see gaming as something weird and even bad for society.

not sure MOST people see video games that way, but dont some people view television and certain music genres the same way?

GameBoy's two initial targets in Japan were actually school children and traveling businessmen.  In fact, the reasoning for making the platform region free was so that professionals traveling overseas could buy a game anywhere and still play it on their Japanese system.

Funny enough, the Famicom originally featured dual advertising as well, targeting both children and adults.  Nintendo's original plans for the device were all encompassing and pretty progressive for the 1980s, as a living room entertainment device that the kids could play games on, mom could download recipes on or dad could check stocks on.  A lot of what you find in Wii and DS in terms of wider reach and application (Wii no Ma, Cooking Navi, etc) has it's real roots in the Famicom.

Yeah i agree with them.

Pfahahahahha

Sony helped broaden the appeal of games, but 'legitimising it' is just utter BS

The NES, gameboy, DS and Wii IMO did far more to 'legitimising gaming'