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Nintendo's Impact on Video Game Consoles



Nintendo: How it Has Made an Impact On the Video Game Console Industry
            Throughout the years, Nintendo has made a huge impact on other video game consoles by the same Sony company, as well as other video game console manufacturers such as Microsoft. It is a more advanced video game if you compare it with the prototypes such as Atari which was made in the 1970’s.  Nintendo started making its own brand of video games also in the early 1970’s.
            In 1988, rival video game company Sega launched its first video game console called “Sega Genesis.” The console was released in Japan, United States, and many European countries. While Sega was emerging onto the scene, Nintendo fought hard to make sure its video game console stay on top and compete against Sega. Nintendo came up with another console similar to the Nintendo Entertainment System; the so-called Super Nintendo Entertainment System was first introduced in November 1990 in Japan. It would start a new advanced video game revolution in North America in 1991, Europe and Australia in 1992 and Latin America in 1993.
Unlike its predecessor NES, which had failed to rival Atari in the 1980s, Super Nintendo rocked the video game industry by stepping up their game. The company looked at how well Sega was managing their video game business, and decided they were going to beat them at their own game.
While Sega’s Genesis was more aimed at older teens and young adults, the Nintendo’s video games were more “kid-friendly.” SNES did not sell well as its predecessor, the NES, but the video games they released The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario World won the popularity contest.
This spurred on companies like Microsoft to enter the video game industry with their first Xbox release in 2001 in the United States. Microsoft also added online streaming to the Xbox, which has so far released 8 generations of Xbox video game consoles. Not to be outdone, Sony also added streaming services to their PlayStation models which are currently also in their 8th generation of video games.
During the early Eighties, Nintendo failed to compete with other video game companies, so it formed a partnership with Sony in the 1990’s to make the PlayStation consoles. The first one, PS1, was released in 1994 in Japan, and in 1995 in the US. It did not only rival Sega, but the console also influenced them to create more video game consoles including: Nintendo 64 (released in 1996), Nintendo Gamecube (2001), Wii (2006), etc.
As we are nearing 2020, there are already rumors about Sony and Nintendo coming up with the Playstation5. Microsoft is also rumored to be coming up with a new Xbox called Anaconda. Both systems are rumored to be doing away with the disc readers, and doing most of their gaming using cloud computing. What a fascinating world the video game industry is becoming!

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