Nintendo's 10 Biggest Blunders And Fails

After the video game crash in 1983, Nintendo revived and ran the market through the eighties with the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System. They were flying high and, as always happens, they became complacent. They sat back and grew fat on the NES, unwavering in their confidence that the system would continue to sell games through the 1990s.

Then along came Sega and the Sega Genesis with all of its juicy 16 bit graphics and still Nintendo did nothing. Suddenly, gamers began to flock to the nascent Genesis system, wowed by the new games and awe inspiring graphics. Nintendo, through their inaction, had unwittingly created a new competitor in the market they had saved and ran for half a decade.

Nintendo were forced to scramble and rush the Super Nintendo Entertainment System into production to try and curtail the runaway success of the Genesis. Even so, it still took two years for Nintendo to release an answer to Sega's hit. That is two years that Sega enjoyed an uninterrupted run as the new big boys in the playground, cementing competition in an industry that Nintendo had had a monopoly on.