Show Notes
NIN-TEN-DO. I have spent countless hours sitting in front of one of the many Nintendo consoles over the years. We discuss the rise of Nintendo in the home console market and its flaws. Topic: Are Wii done yet?
Topic History/Background
We are going to focus on the home console market starting from the introduction of the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System). Video game crash 1983
NES- Introduced in North America in 1985. ($149.99) 61.91 million units were sold. Discontinued August 14, 1995
SNES - Introduced in NA August 23, 1991 ($199) sold 49 Million units worldwide. Discontinued in 1999
N64 - Introduced September 29, 1996 ($199) 32. Million units worldwide. Discontinued on November 30 2003
Gamecube - Introduced in NA November 18, 2001 ($199) sold 21 Million units worldwide. Discontinued 2007
Nintendo WII - Introduced November 19, 2006 ($249.99) sold 101 million units. Discontinued Original October 20th 2011, Family Edition and Mini 2017
Nintendo WII U - Introduced November 18, 2012 (Basic set price $299) (Deluxe $349). Sold 13 Million units worldwide. Discontinued January 31, 2017
Nintendo Switch - introduced March 3, 2017 ($299) sold over 52.5 million worldwide. Most current system.
Gaming news
The King Of Kong, Billy Mitchell, has been striped of his scores.
Bethesda (Creators of Skyrim, Fallout, ect.)working on Wolfenstein 2 for the Nintendo Switch?
Shenmue Remastered coming in 2018
Super NT console available for purchase
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