I'm not so sure if this article can be reliable or not - but it may be the last thing Yamauchi did.
http://www.p4rgaming.com/former-nintendo-president-hiroshi-yamauchi-criticizes-wii-u-launch-says-would-rather-buy-a-ps3/
Holy shit - I wonder if this is made up. Just found it surfing on the web.
Of course it's fake.I'm not so sure if this article can be reliable or not - but it may be the last thing Yamauchi did.
http://www.p4rgaming.com/former-nintendo-president-hiroshi-yamauchi-criticizes-wii-u-launch-says-would-rather-buy-a-ps3/
Holy shit - I wonder if this is made up. Just found it surfing on the web.
I'm not so sure if this article can be reliable or not - but it may be the last thing Yamauchi did at Nintendo.
http://www.p4rgaming.com/former-nintendo-president-hiroshi-yamauchi-criticizes-wii-u-launch-says-would-rather-buy-a-ps3/
Holy shit - I wonder if this is made up. Just found it surfing on the web.
The chances of that being real approach 0%.
fyi P4R gaming is a parody site
RIP
Might have to make a new account.
Come on man, a simple Google search for "p4rgaming" will reveal it's a fake news site. Do a little research before littering this thread with such trash.I'm not so sure if this article can be reliable or not - but it may be the last thing Yamauchi did at Nintendo.
http://www.p4rgaming.com/former-nintendo-president-hiroshi-yamauchi-criticizes-wii-u-launch-says-would-rather-buy-a-ps3/
Holy shit - I wonder if this is made up. Just found it surfing on the web.
Come on Cygnus...I'm not so sure if this article can be reliable or not - but it may be the last thing Yamauchi did at Nintendo.
http://www.p4rgaming.com/former-nintendo-president-hiroshi-yamauchi-criticizes-wii-u-launch-says-would-rather-buy-a-ps3/
Edit: confirmed it's made up. Well, just read it for fun.
- Was grooming his son-in-law, Minoru Arakawa, to take over the company. For this, Arakawa needed to become "more like Yamauchi, tougher." However, their differing opinions on what direction Nintendo should take next made the succession an impossibility.
He was the largest stockholder actually.Wow this is huge. Apparently he still held the second largest stock hold in Nintendo on death I would of thought he'd of sold it off after he stepped down but it looks like he was still interested in holding up the company right until his death.
:'(
Is it too early for someone to start a topic related to Nintendo's immediate and long-term future in light of this sad news? This would be an inappropriate forum to discuss that, but I'd love to discuss the now-uncertain future of the legacy this great man left behind.
Found it!
A 2004 BBC documentary sheds some light on the mysterious character of Yamauchi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4rMchIAvdA#t=3m29s
- Was grooming his son-in-law, Minoru Arakawa, to take over the company. For this, Arakawa needed to become "more like Yamauchi, tougher." However, their differing opinions on what direction Nintendo should take next made the succession an impossibility.
No, sadly not. It should be taken with a grain of salt, in any case.Was there any detail on *what* direction Arakawa was promoting?