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...
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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.
davyK wrote:It would have risen OK but it would have been the poorer for it - no doubt in my mind.
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.
Escape wrote: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.davyK wrote:It would have risen OK but it would have been the poorer for it - no doubt in my mind.
The man was clearly a liability. Hark at us, conversing.regmcfly wrote:I didn't intend it to be. I wanted it to be stuff that would inspire conversationadkm1979 wrote:That's not a list that would fill you with confidence if you were looking to hire him, tbh.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.
I wasn't disagreeing with Reg, just commenting on Yamauchi's decision making.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.
adkm1979 wrote: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.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.
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