Hiroshi Yamauchi

Hiroshi Yamauchi 山内溥 (7 November 1927 - 19 September 2013) 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. Due to inherent difficulties in translating Japanese to English, his quotations have been grossly misconstrued.http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/the-legend-of-zelda-board-off-topic-thread-depleted-uranium-edition.47958663/page-95#post-53096646 Quotes 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.comquote- [People who play RPGs are] "depressed gamers who like to sit alone in their dark rooms and play slow games." "Top 10 Tuesday: Wildest Statements Made by Industry Veterans" ign.com "If we can increase the scope of the industry, we can re-energise the global market and lift Japan out of depression - that is Nintendo's mission.". Regarding lukewarm GameCube sales which had yielded the company's first reported operating loss in over 100 years, Yamauchi continued: "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."Nikkei talks with Nintendo's Yamauchi and Iwata GameScience http://game-science.com/news/000406.html yes https://web.archive.org/web/20060127211555/http://game-science.com/news/000406.html January 27, 2006 May 27, 2014 Iwata, Yamauchi Speak Out on Nintendo DS http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/9256/iwata-yamauchi-speak-out-on-nintendo-ds February 13, 2004 Jonathan Metts Nintendo Worldwide Report May 27, 2014 Constantine John Rise to Heaven: Five Years of Nintendo DS http://www.1up.com/features/years-nintendo-ds 1UP.com 27 May 2014 "If the DS succeeds, we will rise to heaven, but if it fails we will sink to hell." — Hiroshi Yamauchi 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 Misattributed Hey Ballmer, suck my 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) References 30em External links IGN's report on Yamauchi's leaving of the board of directors N-Sider.com's article on The Mind Behind the Empire IGN's summary of the Hiroshi Yamauchi interview at Nikkei Business Daily ClassicGaming.com - Hiroshi Yamauchi Retires From Nintendo Hiroshi Yamauchi On Nintendo's Future from 1UP on FindArticles.com Biography of Hiroshi Yamauchi at Nintendo Land Forbes Faces: Hiroshi Yamauchi Parody: Miyamoto vs Yamauchi Category:Businesspeople from Japan Category:2013 deaths Category:Philanthropists Category:People from Kyoto