Pursuits
Is It Game Over for Video Game Consoles?
Consoles from Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo cling to relevancy in the mobile era
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As a kid, Jared Cate spent long hours playing Nintendo’s Pokemon and The Legend of Zelda video games. So when the company released its Wii U console before Christmas last year, Cate, 23, rushed to a local GameStop store in Atlanta to buy one. “I was about to move to San Francisco and figured it’d be a great thing to play with my family in my last few days at home,” he recalls.