Fzero
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RIP - Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi
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levi
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Aww, that's a shame. Dude had a significant impact on my childhood, and something was lost at Nintendo when he stepped down. RIP.
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End of an era.
I've got the episode of BBC's "Outrageous Fortunes" that dealt with Nintendo and specifically Yamauchi's role at the top. The presenter is a bit rude and annoying, but it's a good insight into the company and family at times, as it chases them down all over the globe. You can find it on youtube, I notice only relatively poor quality copies seem to exist out there though.
I've got the episode of BBC's "Outrageous Fortunes" that dealt with Nintendo and specifically Yamauchi's role at the top. The presenter is a bit rude and annoying, but it's a good insight into the company and family at times, as it chases them down all over the globe. You can find it on youtube, I notice only relatively poor quality copies seem to exist out there though.
levi
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Same difference, surely - Iwata directly succeeded Yamauchi.
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By the way Yamauchi was never a gamer himself. Never played games either.
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If he were to play games, Nintendo would not have grown that big... :lol:
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Sad news, RIP Hiroshi.
Hope they play this at his funeral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkg8C4sWfp0
They should be thanked, rather than blamed IMHO.
Hope they play this at his funeral
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkg8C4sWfp0
Err, the DS & Wii are widely considered to be highly successful, if a little weird at time of release
They should be thanked, rather than blamed IMHO.
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my complaint isn't that it's not "successful", there's just something going awry with nintendo for a while now. i'm still very much a nintendo fan boy, but they are very much on thin ice with me, at least with the home console thing. they have a lot to prove with me with the WiiU, and it's off to a terrible, horrible, sacrilegious startSad news, RIP Hiroshi.
Hope they play this at his funeral
Err, the DS & Wii are widely considered to be highly successful, if a little weird at time of release
Yamauchi San was a very shrewd and harsh business man and most of the industry of today owes him a lot of thanks, so I say a big heart felt THANK YOU! RIP
In regards to "N" downfall once he left...........I'm not sure how better or worse their situation would be if he was still at the helm. For anyone who knows "N" history over the last 100 years, knows that he went where the money was, and when others didn't fallow his lead, he could be very harsh in terms of business relationships.
The "strong arm" tactics worked very well through the NES and SNES eras, but fell very flat in the N64 life and carried through to the Gamecube. I personally think this is why he stepped down when he did, as he may have been doing more harm than good, and "N" is still repairing bridges that where burned downed under his reign.
Sadly, Iwata is the polar opposite of Yamauchi, and where he is a gamer and programmer, he is a very milquetoast leader and this isn't what "N" needs to go in to the future.
Chris
In regards to "N" downfall once he left...........I'm not sure how better or worse their situation would be if he was still at the helm. For anyone who knows "N" history over the last 100 years, knows that he went where the money was, and when others didn't fallow his lead, he could be very harsh in terms of business relationships.
The "strong arm" tactics worked very well through the NES and SNES eras, but fell very flat in the N64 life and carried through to the Gamecube. I personally think this is why he stepped down when he did, as he may have been doing more harm than good, and "N" is still repairing bridges that where burned downed under his reign.
Sadly, Iwata is the polar opposite of Yamauchi, and where he is a gamer and programmer, he is a very milquetoast leader and this isn't what "N" needs to go in to the future.
Chris
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