Thirty years after, the first console to cartridges of Nintendo, rereleased on Saturday 12 November, always enjoys an aura of amazing. Its success was colossal, given in the context of the time.
We are in 2016, and a console launched in France in 1987, is out of stock. The NES Mini Classic, re-release of the famous console to cartridges of the 1980s, was released on 12 November, and the enthusiasm it generates is at the height of its success history.
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With nearly 2 million sales in France, the NES is not the console’s best-selling the story : the PlayStation 4 has already exceeded this cap for Christmas 2015. But surrender in the context of the 1980s, where ever before a machine had exceeded the 350 000 units elapsed, it is a performance in the stratosphere. It follows almost four years of desert commercial quasi-total, the market had been declared dead and buried since the advent of the microcomputer.
In total, the NES is the 10econsole is the most sold all manufacturers and all eras combined. His 61.9 million copies have been largely overwhelmed by the Game Boy (118.7 million), the Nintendo DS (154 million) and PlayStation 2 ($ 157.7 million). Once again, these figures deserve to be put back into their context : the population of players is much lower in the 1980s than in the 2000s, where two generations have now grown up with the video game. However, the NES is the only console living room old, before 1985 the top 10, which is an achievement in itself. Arrival in a period where the video game was given up for dead, she has converted an entire generation, who now plays with his children. Out Wii, the NES is the console living room is the most sold of the history of Nintendo, which also explains why the japanese manufacturer made him so often winks, the image of NES Remix, a compilation of games 8-bit revisited on Wii U.
games to the enduring influence
the games of the NES account for many records. With 3 million units elapsed, Mike Tyson’s Punch Out !! is the greatest success for a boxing game, according to the Guiness Book of 2011. the Super Mario Bros. (40,24 million, excluding re-releases, according to Nintendo) has long been regarded as the most sold game of the history, before being dethroned by the Wii Sports (82,79). All suites and games derived confused, adventures of a plumber will remain with the franchise in the most past of the world. Out of “spin-off” to the Mario Kart or Mario Golf, the series Super Mario Bros. (311 million) is second behind Tetris (approximately $ 500 million according to its creator), in front of Pokémon, Call of Duty and GTA.
The influence of the NES has finally been particularly important in the culture of the video game : many of the flagship series of the area are born on the machine of Nintendo. Among them, The Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy, in particular, but also Metroid, Megaman, Castlevania, Dragon Quest. The site Gamefaqs, which every year organizes a grand tournament popularity games and heroes in the form of a survey, was rewarded 9 times out of 18 in a universe that arose out of this period (eight times The Legend of Zelda, once Metroid). And the next episode of Zelda, the Breath of the Wild on the Nintendo Switch, was introduced by Nintendo as a desire to return to the spirit of the original on the NES.
A renewal for the industry
The international success of the NES has also had a significant influence on the industry. While many american actors were diverted from the area or had turned to the microcomputer at the time of the crisis of the mid-1980s, the Nintendo console has awakened vocations.
The famous publishers like Activision, Electronic Arts and even Ubisoft have published on the machine 8-bit, who served as their stepping stone to start on the market of the console. Off japanese publishers, they are now part of the top 3 global sector.
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