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What is Nintendo Doing Right?

Nintendo, in the eighties and nineties, was the biggest, and most popular video game company. Nintendo dominated the market at the time, releasing many pig title games, and later in the nineties, making the first 64 bit graphics. Since then, X-Boxes and Playstations have trounced Nintendo’s consoles indefinitely in graphics and gameplay. Yet, Nintendo still seams to remain popular, and even passes x-box in sales. Both Microsoft and Sony are missing the vital part to consoles, the part that Nintendo has nailed every time: Multiplayer. I am not talking about WAN multiplayer here, I am talking about multiplayer that is played with strictly the people in the room. All of the Nintendo consoles have been made with the local multiplayer theme in mind. Since computers have been good enough to run games, there is zero reason to play a game on a console; unless there is price involved, consoles are much cheaper than that of a computer of comparable performance. Computers are much easier