Nintendo accounts more than half of the gaming market

[superczar]

AnandTech: Nintendo's Development Secrets, Cloud Gaming & new Killer NIC - GDC '09

Nintendo accounted for nearly $12B of the $22B US video game industry in 2008. There’s no other way to put it, Nintendo is single handedly driving growth in the US game industry - largely due to the Wii.

The trend is the same in the UK, Germany and France

Around half of all video game related sales in those countries last year was because of Nintendo. The numbers are just ridiculous. Cute cuddly video game characters aside, Nintendo is as colossal of a market force as companies like Intel, Microsoft and Google in their respective industries. Nintendo’s size in itself shouldn’t be surprising, but when characterized in terms of the entire video game market it’s shocking.

Well deserved success for Nintendo
when the current gen consoles were slated for a launch, no one was even talking about Nintendo and the media focus was solely on Sony And Microsoft

From being a has-been to the prime force in the gaming industry once again, it's a well deserved success for Nintendo

They bought back the fun into gaming by stepping away from the meaningless (IMO) race towards bigger and meaner graphics alone

 

[madmaniac]

Thats no surpirse cause nintendo aims more for the family and kids.