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Gabe newell is going senile.

The founder of the videogame empire will never admit it. But after more than a decade of the same, and still a young man at heart, it’s clear that the guy is slowing down. In fact, from what he said in an interview with New York magazine about the new generation of gamers, the man who still considers himself the greatest nerd in the world looks for excuses to explain why he’s losing his mind.

But I, on the other hand, happen to agree with the man who likes to be called “Gabe” and thinks of himself as the guy with the money. And I say that because his statement about an upcoming videogame console, which he describes as a kind of Nintendo 2.0, is just as true now as it was back in 1998, the year the original Xbox was released.

Newell is telling people now that it’s no accident that he didn’t release an Xbox. It’s not some huge mistake; it was a decision made by a man who saw the future as a much more crowded landscape than he ever did in the ’90s, and who could only think of making it easier to play his games. He’s just old enough to remember how hard it was for gamers to convince retailers that the Nintendo 64 was going to be successful. He might not be old enough to have seen the early days of the CD-ROM, but he was there when Microsoft was a company that created hardware by the millions but rarely made profits on that hardware.

It’s all about Nintendo now

And for the last nine years, he’s been telling people it’s all about Nintendo.