Hiroshi Yamauchi
Hiroshi Yamauchi 山内溥 was the third president of Nintendo, famous for transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card making company in Japan to a multi-billion dollar video game company.
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- I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the videogame business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.
- Prior to the announcement of the Nintendo Revolution "Top 10 Tuesday: Wildest Statements Made by Industry Veterans" ign.com
- [People who play RPGs are] "depressed gamers who like to sit alone in their dark rooms and play slow games."
- The DS represents a critical moment for Nintendo's success over the next two years. If it succeeds, we rise to the heavens, if it fails, we sink into hell.
- There are many people in the industry that know nothing about games. In particular, a large American company is trying to do engulf software houses with money, but I don't believe that will go well. It looks like they'll sell their game system next year, but we'll see the answer to that the following year.
- In reference to Microsoft, prior to the release of the Xbox "Top 10 Tuesday: Wildest Statements Made by Industry Veterans" ign.com
Misattributions
- Hey Ballmer, why don't you suck my tiny yellow balls.
- This comment was reported as being a response to Microsoft's offer to buy Nintendo in "How Nintendo boss silenced Steve Ballmer" The Inquirer (7 January 2005), and other news sites, but it actually derives from a parody article "Pride" that was purportedly to be in the February 2005 issue of Wired magazine, and which first appeared on the web at a Spanish gaming site, Gamerah.com
- "Microsoft's Ballmer beat off Asian genital challenge" ~ The Register (7 January 2005)
- "Nintendo Responds to Fake Interview" ~ Advanced Media Network (8 January 2005)