are people worrying about Nintendo because of this? Yamauchi had been in retirement for many years. It's very unlikely his daughter is going to sell all her shares or something.
Anyway, bit of a legend. A proper businessman!
Sad news. And I almost believed all the old jokes about him being immortal
May you greet Yokoi and inspire great ideas for the future.
This is video game equivalent of an American Founding Father dying. It's surreal to think that we are reaching that point in time where the original pioneers of video games are starting to pass away due to natural causes/old age. Yamauchi was fairly old already when he started in the video game industry, but it's sad to see the original businessmen/women and designers of an entire medium beginning to leave this world.
We truly are coming to the end of era; but like a Founding Father, what Yamauchi built is so structurally sound that it will survive beyond any of us. There are few higher honors than that. RIP Yamauchi-san.
I hope anyone that hasn't read David Sheff's "Game Over" does so now to see what an incredible man Yamauchi was.
I hope anyone that hasn't read David Sheff's "Game Over" does so now to see what an incredible man Yamauchi was.
I hope anyone that hasn't read David Sheff's "Game Over" does so now to see what an incredible man Yamauchi was.
100% this
Good on ya. Great read. I think you'll reinterpret the early Nintendo console industry after it.literally been in my queue forever now, think it's time i got around to it. thanks man.