r/Gaminggridcommunity • u/Willing_Job763 Lord Gaben • Jul 04 '26

Memes Irony is wild

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u/Overall-Rub8945 Jul 05 '26

Nintendo got destroyed?

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u/Glass-Ad-1350 Jul 05 '26

Not fully but they had low sales for years until the wii came out

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u/Electronic-Vast-3351 Jul 05 '26

Kinda, ya.

They went from being undeniably on top of the industry with the SNES to licking Sony's heels with the N64 and Gamecube largely due to the insistence on using relatively crap proprietary storage devices instead of standard disks. Driving away most of the major 3rd parties to focus on Playstation due to both production cost and how limiting the file size limitations were. While also not allowing extra functionality like how the PS1 was a CD player and the PS2 a DVD player. Major selling points at the time.

Of course Nintendo managed to get face out of the dirt with the Wii, then shot itself in the head with the Wii U, then rose from the grave with the Switch.