Rare, Capcom UK, Microsoft’s Major Nelson, and plenty of others shared a few words on Twitter in honor of his memory.
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa recently sat down with Nikkei to discuss his approach to leading the company through the current Switch era, as well as what influences past presidents like Satoru Iwata and Hiroshi Yamauchi had on him.
nothing wrong with him per say but he just feels kinda lifeless compared to Iwata and lacks the tough guy almost Yakuza vibe Yamauchi gave off
This guy is a penny pincher and has no love of gaming. It is obvious in the half assed ports he is pushing. Iwata we miss you.
That's according to late Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi, anyway.
🤣 How out of touch?
N64 lost to Playstation because PS had way more and better games and I do believe that the controller had something to do with it as well.
the reason nintendo lost was because they chose to stick with expensive carts over cd rom. New games on ps were $50 and N64 were $60-$65. Also the Disc held more information than the carts. It was cheaper to produce games on PS than N64. PS also had a mix of genres from kid games to mature content.
I remember Hiroshi - he was so old and wouldn't budge on anything. Sony absolutely blindsided Nintendo after the big N stabbed Sony in the back.
FF7 was a turning point and hurt Nintendo a lot. But PS1 was a classic gaming machine - massive library of hits.
The icing came a little later when Sega games started coming to PlayStation consoles.
Nintendo's third president, Hiroshi Yamauchi, was famously disinterested in video games, preferring to play more traditional Japanese board games. Despite this, he's also known for modernising Nintendo and transforming the video game market.
well, even now their policies are bullshit, here's 5 examples:
1 - youtube restrictions and copyright claims
2 - nintendo labo existence
3 - selling an unfinished underpowered console overpricing it
4 - porting wiiU games on switch instead of selling the wiiU at 50$
5 - willing to do cross platform like if it is very important, same problem that microsoft has.
meanwhile in syria 100s died today
I have no idea who this guy is, but R.I.P. to him nonetheless.
Had he not passed away I wonder how much different Nintendo would've been if Mr. Yamauchi was still head of Nintendo and not Iwata. R.I.P
@ Below what are you talking about? Come on dude get real
excuse my irrelevancy, but he looks like a japanese clint eastwood.
great man
May he rest in peace. Thank you Mr. Yamouchi for all of the great things that you did for the Gaming world.