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johnsobas on 06 September 2013
Incubi said:
I remember when Nintendo went under after the release of Virtual Boy. They became instantly irrelevant.

So what? Virtual boy was irrelevent, but the game boy still dominated the handheld market.  



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Incubi on 06 September 2013
johnsobas said:
Incubi said:
I remember when Nintendo went under after the release of Virtual Boy. They became instantly irrelevant.

So what? Virtual boy was irrelevent, but the game boy still dominated the handheld market.  

I was being sarcastic. It was my way of saying Bushnell is full of crap:p



Zelhawks37 on 06 September 2013

Oh look, more doom and gloom articles about Nintendo.



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prayformojo on 06 September 2013
MohammadBadir said:
"says Atari founder"
stopped caring there.

 

Without the 2600, there is no NES.



Proxy-Pie on 06 September 2013
prayformojo said:
MohammadBadir said:
"says Atari founder"
stopped caring there.

 

Without the 2600, there is no NES.


how exactly?



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mai on 06 September 2013

It should be noted though that Bushnell has nothing to do with what Atari had become, so criticism is unjustified. Not that he didn't experience his fair share of fail, e.g. Sente.



Mr Khan on 06 September 2013
TheKoreanGuy said:
Mr Khan said:
With the Jaguar?

Some days i wish mod powers extended beyond vgc...


Maybe he is speaking from experience? Looks that way from the article.

Perhaps i'm reading this wrong, but the parallel between Wii U and Jaguar seems to have been drawn by the author.

Plus i'm fairly positive Bushnell wasn't around for the Jaguar.



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richardhutnik on 07 September 2013
KingdomHeartsFan said:
badgenome said:
Well, if anyone would know about the path to irrelevance...


You beat me to it by less than a min -.-

Nolan Bushnell saw what happned to Atari and the videogame industry, so he knows about this.  Atari was in Blade Runner:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=167969&page=1#



richardhutnik on 07 September 2013
MohammadBadir said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y37tPc08v90

Atari tried to hack Nintendo at some point XD

Shift in the way videogames worked, and how money was made did in Atari and a lot.  Going from 8bit to 16bit also killed off a bunch of former videogame makers.  Rare exception was the likes of Activision actually.  The home computer got washed out by the PC, and it went on.  Now PCs are getting washed out by portable devices.



Proxy-Pie on 07 September 2013
richardhutnik said:
MohammadBadir said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y37tPc08v90

Atari tried to hack Nintendo at some point XD

Shift in the way videogames worked, and how money was made did in Atari and a lot.  Going from 8bit to 16bit also killed off a bunch of former videogame makers.  Rare exception was the likes of Activision actually.  The home computer got washed out by the PC, and it went on.  Now PCs are getting washed out by portable devices.


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