THEY should rename the company to Nintendon’t. The Japanese giant has been plumbing the depths during this console generation — but hey, at least plumbing is one thing Mario excels at.

Nintendo makes amazing consoles and games but one of the major isues users have had is that consoles and games are generally region locked - so for example you couldn't buy a game in Japan and play it in your Irish Wii U.

There was, I felt, a delicious irony, in the announcement from Toyota a couple of weeks ago that it was set to launch its Mirai hydrogen fuel cell vehicle across the world in 2015.