Nintendo realized it couldn’t win the console arms race — so it changed the game

Nearly nine years after its release, the Nintendo Switch has become the company's best-selling console of all time, with more than 155 million units sold. From the Nintendo Entertainment System rescuing a collapsed gaming market in the 1980s, to the GameCube being outsold by Sony's PlayStation 2, Nintendo's hardware history is as much of a story of reinvention as it is success.