The highs and lows of the past 10 years.
So, that's it then – another decade is over. The past ten years are perhaps a little unusual in that they've been a reverse of the ten that preceded them; in the year 2000, Nintendo was struggling to keep pace with Sony in the home console arena and was facing competition for the handheld market thanks to rival portables. By the time the DS and Wii arrived, however, the company was arguably the toast of the video game world. Both consoles sold in record numbers, and as the decade drew to a close, it seemed that Nintendo was unstoppable.
As we all know, the dawn of the next decade proved the old adage "pride comes before a fall", and neither of Nintendo's follow-up systems managed to emulate the same success of their forerunners, leading some 'industry experts' to state that the Japanese giant should retire from hardware and focus on software.
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So, that's it then – another decade is over. The past ten years are perhaps a little unusual in that they've been a reverse of the ten that preceded them; in the year 2000, Nintendo was struggling to keep pace with Sony in the home console arena and was facing competition for the handheld market thanks to rival portables. By the time the DS and Wii arrived, however, the company was arguably the toast of the video game world. Both consoles sold in record numbers, and as the decade drew to a close, it seemed that Nintendo was unstoppable.
As we all know, the dawn of the next decade proved the old adage "pride comes before a fall", and neither of Nintendo's follow-up systems managed to emulate the same success of their forerunners, leading some 'industry experts' to state that the Japanese giant should retire from hardware and focus on software.
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