TOKYO: Last week's Tokyo Game Show is one of the world's biggest draws for gamers and developers, but the talk amid the virtual reality headsets and robot arms is of the industry giant that never turns up: Nintendo Co Ltd.
The Japanese firm, conservative and rarely unpredictable, has twice caught the industry by surprise in recent weeks: first, with Pokémon GO, a wildly successful augmented reality smartphone game, and, earlier this month, by stealing the show at Apple Inc's iPhone 7 launch in San Francisco.
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