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"Nintendo, whose latest console has sold poorly, could be on a "path to irrelevance", the founder of legendary games company Atari has said.
In an interview with the BBC, Nolan Bushnell said the Japanese firm was left in a "very difficult position".
Games analysts have drawn parallels between Atari's doomed Jaguar console in 1993 and the struggling Wii U.
Mr Bushnell said Atari had been "abused by corporate charlatans" after a "glorious beginning".
The 70-year-old had been speaking at Campus Party, an event held at London's O2 Arena in which thousands of developers, staying in tents, worked together on various collaborative technology projects.
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Mr Bushnell, who gave a keynote speech at the event, now runs an educational software company called Brainrush.
"It's about taking game technology, mashing it up with brain science, and creating some pretty powerful software towards learning," he said.
"We have some really powerful engines right now that are knocking it out of the park. You'll hear a lot about it in the next few years."
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