While Imperfect, Nintendo's Latest Direct Reminds us of Nintendo's Importance

16th November, 0 replies

It was as I sat watching Thursday’s Nintendo Direct - a presentation I hadn’t expected to catch live but one that I’d happened to be off from work during and so casually managed to watch it - that I realized how important that Nintendo is to the console industry.

What brought about this realization wasn’t so much the announcements themselves, which for the most part were expected (until of course The Big One at the end). Rather it was because it hit me incredibly hard how different Nintendo’s games are from those that typically appearing on rival platforms, and how this difference is so important.

Giving my reaction some thought afterwards, I have to say that I was somewhat surprised by it. I’d grown up as a Sega fan - one who had always found Nintendo and its systems to be distant second to the likes of the Genesis and the Dreamcast. After the Dreamcast’s death, however, and Sega’s exit from the console business, I could sense myself gravitating towards Nintendo; a company which, despite Microsoft’s entry into the console business and Sony’s increasingly Western line-up...

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