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Nintendo
Nintendo was founded in Kyoto, Japan in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, originally as a manufacturer of handmade Japanese playing cards called hanafuda, nearly a century before the company entered the video game industry at all. The company transitioned into video games in the late 1970s and became a defining force in the industry with the 1985 North American launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System, widely credited with reviving the American home video game market after the industry's severe 1983 crash. Nintendo's stable of first-party franchises, including Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and Pokémon, have become among the best-selling and most culturally recognized video game properties in history, and the company has consistently pursued a distinctive strategy of innovative hardware, from the Game Boy to the Wii's motion controls to the hybrid handheld-and-console Nintendo Switch. Nintendo's combination of its remarkable 19th-century origins as a playing card company and its role reviving the American video game industry after its 1983 crash has made it one of the most historically significant companies in gaming.
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PlayStation (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Sony entered the video game console market with the original PlayStation in Japan in December 1994, developed after Sony's earlier planned CD-ROM partnership with Nintendo collapsed, prompting Sony to build and launch a competing console entirely on its own. The PlayStation brand grew to become one of the best-selling console lines in gaming history, with the PlayStation 2, released in 2000, remaining the best-selling video game console of all time by units sold, a record it has held for over two decades. Sony's PlayStation division built a reputation for securing high-profile exclusive titles and cinematic, narrative-driven franchises like The Last of Us and God of War, distinguishing its first-party output from competitors' more gameplay-mechanics-focused flagship franchises. PlayStation's combination of its origin story rising from a collapsed Nintendo partnership and the PlayStation 2's still-unbroken record as the best-selling console ever has made it one of the most commercially significant brands in gaming history.
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