Nintendo is not just the oldest video game company in existence, but theyre basically the oldest game company in existence, having been founded in 1889. Over the past 130 years, the company has gone through many ups and downs, and their time in the video game marketsince the NEShas been anything but smooth sailing.
They mastered the home console idea 35 years ago with the NES, and once it made its way to the US, millions of people around the world fell in love with the company. But Nintendo has also made countless mistakes over and over again that have really hurt their success.
Luckily, the Switch turned everything around for them. But before that, starting with the Nintendo 64 (which made mistakes from the SNES), GameCube, Wii, and Wii U, it was one problem after another, and the company always found themselves far behind in the race against Sony and Microsoft (and others like Sega, depending on the time).
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