TreasureHunterG
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Dude, you are either a hilarious troll or someone who is blinded by nostalgia. Despite what your childhood may suggest, N64 and Gamecube were not good times for Nintendo. If you think Yamauchi would have done things differently with the Wii if he had known how much money he would be making you would be wrong. If Yamauchi was still involved we would probably have even less third party support, due to the games being on some weird format. Like micro sd cards or some weird shit. That is the man who kept console cartridges alive after they were past the time, and decided that Gamecube discs needed to be that small.
I have never met someone who hated Iwata so much, or revered Yamauchi that much. I get that there is some real respect for him, but he really just was a desperate business man who tried everything to make money after realizing how small the playing card game business was. Until Gunpei Yokoi and Shigeru Miyamoto made him a billionaire.
I think you have serious interpretation issues because I never said Yamauchi is perfect and I know he made serious mistakes and I never tried to eclipse them. What I said is that his business model regarding first-pary games quality are better than Iwata. But your bias toward Iwata is making hard for you to understand this and you're finding whatever argument you make from my words and try to put words on my mouth. Now, stop writing I'm a hilarious troll or nostalgia-driven. It won't make you look cool or make you look like you're always right, so back off with this childish attitude.
Iwata's entrance may not have been successful (which is comparable to how Obama entered in a weak economy), but he sure as heck turned it around with the Wii and DS.
Yamauchi did mistakes, no doubt, and I don't even question this, but your omission of Wii's sales drop in it's late life and 3DS overpricing, forcing Nintendo to do a premature price drop that made it being sold at a loss and making Nintendo to loose money for the first time in it's history (something that never happened during Yamauchi era, despite all his wrong doings) put the credibility of your opinion in check, so don't come with this "don't just use selective historical aspects to support your assumptions" on me.