Believe it or not, Nintendo has been around for 130 years. While they bounced from idea to idea early on, Nintendo truly hit their stride when they entered the video game market. Making games has been Nintendo's bread and butter for years now, and there's definitely no signs of the company stopping! In an interview with the Guardian, Nintendo's Shinya Takahashi and Hisashi Nogami address some topics that have come up during their time with the company.
Internal doubt about the Wii

Takahashi: "Even among our developers there are often doubts! When the Wii remote was first introduced as a concept, the reaction was: what is that" Is it real" Will it actually work" But once we'd all tried it, we were surprised and delighted by it, and that made us realise that it was going to work out. With the Nintendo Switch, we all knew the concept, but when we picked up the prototype for the first time and saw Mario Kart running perfectly on the smaller screen, we were flabbergasted. Even people who are well aware of the concept and design can't always tell if something's going to work."
Combining different types of devs to make games for everyone
Takahashi: "Right now, because people of different generations are now working together, they're always coming up with different ideas about how best to provide a meaningful surprise to players. And I think our job is combining these different ideas to create brand new ways of entertain...