/vr/ - Retro Games

IMO yes Nintendo did save gaming, some people think they didn't for several reasons. But I'll counter-argue the common reasons why people don't believe Nintendo saved gaming:

>If Nintendo didn't do it someone else would have

This argument completely based on faith, and you'd need to have a ton of faith that a company would've entered a dead and dying video game industry after the crash. After the 1983 crash, literally no one wanted to have anything to do with video games anymore, from companies to consumers and retailers. If the video game industry was dead DEAD with no one, more specifically in NA interested in video games anymore, why in the world would a company attempt to market a video game system if no one is interested? To most companies, it wouldn't have made sense from a business standpoint as many companies and analysts at the time would consider that a company's suicide. Even if a company did somehow have faith they could revive the gaming industry, the amount of huge hurdles a company would have to jump through just to get a video game system into retailers, and in the hands of the consumer would likely have been too much for any company to handle.

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