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Comment by dec0dedab0de | Hacker News Reader

Sony is older than Apple...

Unrelated to your point, but Nintendo is older than Sony and Apple combined.

  Apple 45 years
  Sony 75 years
  Nintendo 132 years

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Yea it's crazy. My dad has a classic Gameboy that his great grandfather purchased during the first world war. That Gameboy saw a couple more wars after that too, including 5 years up my grandads ass in a POW camp, and 2 more inside another soldier who brought it back for us.

Can confirm it tastes bad.

I know you're trying to make the point that Nintendo revolutionized itself and is a foundationally different company than it was in the 1910's, but not really.

Trading cards (cutting edge color printing) -> Mechanical toys (cutting edge machining) -> Basic games like Game and Watch -> Video Games.

Nintendo just makes complex toys using cutting edge tech and always has.

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