Does Nintendo have the experience to tackle the next-generation?
Fact: Sit down son; Nintendo is the most experienced video game console manufacturer alive today and perhaps ever. The Wii will be Nintendo’s 5th home console – starting with the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom, moving to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom, and then the Nintendo 64, and ultimately reaching the present with Nintendo GameCube. This is compared to Sony who will be going into its third home console cycle and Microsoft who will only be introducing its second. Moreover, with the Nintendo DS, Nintendo will have also experienced five portable variations of its Game Boy line. Put simply, there is no company that has Nintendo’s over two decades of experience. And that, young grasshopper, is that.