Back then, no one could have foreseen that a consumer electronics company with zero experience in gaming would disrupt the space so thoroughly that its name would soon become the de-facto noun for home consoles. Andrew House: “When I joined the division eventually, I think my then boss said to me, more or less, ‘You're an idiot and it's a toy and it's destined for failure and why would you want to go and work on something like that?’”Shawn Layden: “There was kind of a sense from the finance side, it's like, ‘Please lease everything, because in nine months you may not be there anymore anyway. Long gone is the era when your collection was guaranteed to be almost entirely made up of games produced by Shigeru Miyamoto