![]() ![]() ![]() It can be surprising, though, to actually look closely at Nintendo’s sales charts and see which franchises have sold the most. It’s the enduring popularity of characters like Mario, Link, and Pikachu that have kept Nintendo thriving for so long, along with the generally high quality of the games that they make. Nintendo also has more beloved franchises than any other videogame company. Nintendo is both the Coca-Cola and Pepsi of gaming, and they’ve got the sales figures to back up that comparison. The rise of the PlayStation and Xbox mostly killed off that practice over the last 25 years, but Nintendo is still synonymous with videogames in a way no other company is. There was a time when the word “Nintendo” was just an all-purpose stand-in for “videogames.” Nintendo dominated the gaming landscape so thoroughly in the late ‘80s and ‘90s that adults used it to refer to all videogames anywhere, from consoles made by such rivals as Sega and NEC, to the games you’d play at arcades or movie theater lobbies.
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