dynamiteReady wrote:

beano wrote:

Note, Steve wasn't a great person and Hiroshi wasn't miles better.

Dunno... Never met either, but one thing they both had in common was the whole art vs technology thing... You could argue that Yamauchi got there first... Can you imagine? Making Miyamoto a tech project lead, even though he had never touched a computer before he started at Nintendo?

He wanted to make puppets ffs...

Probably the single most profitable hire in the history of business that...

I'd never met either though from opinion neither the best of people, ruling with an iron rod, very shrewd and all that old school business/employer mentality, exploiting resources with great benefit to a few of the exploitees.

Indeed the industries they worked in have amassed a great deal of debt to them.

It would have risen OK but it would have been the poorer for it - no doubt in my mind. Ninty had art designers creating games (shigsy is an arty type too) - not developers.

davyK wrote:

It would have risen OK but it would have been the poorer for it - no doubt in my mind.

I think it depends on what we all enjoy. Super Metroid and GoldenEye weren't typically Nintendo, Rare were British, and the PC of the late-'90s showed very little Eastern influence.

The Master System was trialled before the NES, and Atari were still in the coin-op biz. Without Nintendo, we'd have missed out on the many excellent games they've made, but we'd still have an industry.

Escape wrote:

davyK wrote:

It would have risen OK but it would have been the poorer for it - no doubt in my mind.

I think it depends on what we all enjoy. Super Metroid and GoldenEye weren't typically Nintendo, Rare were British, and the PC of the late-'90s showed very little Eastern influence. The Master System was trialled before the NES, and Atari were still in the coin-op biz. Without Nintendo, we'd have missed out on the many excellent games they've made, but we'd still have an industry.

No doubt at all - but it would pretty much be all shooty shooty. Sadly there is precious little that isn't nowadays anyhow.

Or perhaps we'd all be pissed off at Commodore for dropping legacy Workbench support on the Amiga One...

regmcfly wrote:

adkm1979 wrote:

regmcfly wrote:

So I guess I'll start by listing some of the things the man did, and then we can take it from there, on things you love, things you miss etc.

That's not a list that would fill you with confidence if you were looking to hire him, tbh.

I didn't intend it to be. I wanted it to be stuff that would inspire conversation

The man was clearly a liability.  Hark at us, conversing.

It's a sign of dissatisfaction with the self. A need to demonstrate to others as well as self that personal opinions / knowledge / experience are superior, leading to over-compensation.

Much like that statement I just made.


It can be temporary or chronic; I hope it's the former, everyone deserves inner satisfaction.

Sasukekun wrote:

I do believe at times you're disagreeing with people just for the sake of it these days. I can barely scroll through Twitter without a tweet where you're not taking umbridge with someone's opinion.

I wasn't disagreeing with Reg, just commenting on Yamauchi's decision making.

I certainly have no desire to demonstrate superior knowledge or opinions, because I don't have any.

I will put my hand up and say that I find tweets or posts or whatever of people agreeing with each other entirely a bit boring and pointless.

Hey ho.  Here I am, disagreeing with someone again.

I recently picked up the book "Game Over", and have found it a fascinating read so far, not just into Yamauchi's life but also a more intricate and close look at some of the business decisions that were made. Looking forward to reading the rest of it, and his idea of licensing out software has certainly become an industry mainstay (App Store!).