Atari founder: Nintendo may be on a ‘path to irrelevance’

[Wireless News]

Nintendo’s Wii U has had a rocky start, to say the least. Sales of the new console have been hugely disappointing thus far, forcing Nintendo to slash the system’s price despite repeatedly stating that it would not. According to comments made recently by Atari founder-Nolan Bushnell,-Nintendo may currently be on a “path to irrelevance” by sticking to dedicated home and portable video game consoles while refusing to embrace mobile platforms. And if there’s anyone who knows about dominant gaming console companies becoming irrelevant, it’s Bushnell. “I don’t think handheld game-only devices make sense anymore,” Bushnell-BBC News in an interview. “Not when you have an iPod or an Android microtablet.-When it comes to the console market, I think the market is

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