Is that little Electric Rat named Pikachu really saving Nintendo. If you look at the sales chart it was something like this.
1.Pokemon Blue 2.Pokemon Blue 3.Pokemon Yellow 4.Pokemon Snap 5.Pokemon Pinball 6.Donkey Kong64 7.PSX GAME 8.PSX GAME 9. Nintendo Game 10.PSX Game
After looking at this data many people think, of course, that rat saved Nintendo. But I think it goes a little deeper. In about 1995 GameFreak and NINTENDO joined up to make Pokemon. It evolved in Japan into one of the biggest pop culture events ever. A couple years later it hit the shores here. Many people like me were hooked on the game. Soon enough the Card Game came out. Ahhh, what a beautiful invention. What my point is that Nintendo made Pokemon. Nintendo is saving Pokemon, Pokemon is not saving Nintendo. Although Nintendo's game is bringing in lots of money Nintendo made it. Nintendo is fueling the Pokemon craze. Now it would be totally different if a second or third party developer hade made Pokemon. Now, Nintendo is making some extra money from all the lunchboxes, toys, plates, napkins, cell phones, airplanes etc of which they did not make but are still getting payed for. Yes this is a relitivly short article and it is going on both of my sites (PokemonTCG and Nintendo). No Pikachu did not save Nintendo. If anything it's the other way around.
Scyther73 The RNM(Rambling Nintendo Monkey)