Thread 714023415

Hiroshi Yamauchi officiailly left Nintendo after 55 years. He was president from 1949-2002 and stayed as Board of directors for an additional 3 years, mainly to oversee the development of the DS and Wii systems and assisting his successor Satoru Iwata.

Yamauchi is widely considered the best Nintendo president of all time due to turning his great-grandfather's small card company into a video game empire, as well as greenlighting the best Nintendo games under his tenure (he saved HAL Laboratory from going bankrupt in 1993 and turned them into a second-party studio). When Yamauchi left, there was a signifncant decline in quality in terms.

>when your yakuza front become surprisingly successful and actually work as a proper company
what a life

>>714023415 (OP)
make a twitter post about it

>>714023647
Most people don’t WANT to make a life out of killing, stealing, corruption, and other degenerate shit. Gangs exist for power and greed. If you can obtain both of those things through legally making children's games, you’d absolute take the path of least resistance.

>>714023415 (OP)
>got proven right on literally everything
>nintendo today only succeeded due to following his ideas instead of chasing le graphix with the goycube and the wii u

Reminder that Iwata killed the power Nintendo of America had in the 90s

From 1990-2000. Nintendo of America had production and management autonomy from Japan. NOA basically culminated its own production team, along a few co-designers, and started funding and producing games with developers.

>DMA Design: Uni Racers, Body Harvest (Nintendo dropped it in 1997, Midway took it)
>Angel Studios: Ken Griffey Baseball, Buggie Boogie (canceled)
>Bits Studios: Warlocked, Riqa (canceled)
>Rare: Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark
>Software Creations: Ken Griffey Baseball, Tin Star
>Silicon Knights: Eternal Darkness (N64 version)
>Left Field Productions: Kobey Bryant in NBA Courtside, Excitebike 64
>Looking Glass Studio: Mini Racers (canceled)
>Mass Media: Star Craft 64
>H20: Tetrisphere
>Saffire Corp: Nester's Funky Bowling, James Bond 007
>Midway: Cruisn Series

Nintendo of America also procured the Ken Griffey and MLBPA license, NHL License, Kobe Bryant and NBA license, PGA license, Disney license, James Bond license, StarCraft license. Star Wars Episode I license. They were producing their own first-party games separate from Nintendo of Japan.

That all changed when Iwata transitioned from Global Marketing Chief to President. NOA Production was killed, and Nintendo of Japan's SPD Department took over all Western development (Star Fox Adventures, Geist, Eternal Darkness GC).

Henry Sterchi, Brian Ullrich, Ken Lobb, Ed Ridgeway, Jeff Hutt, Faran Thomason, and the whole crew left NOA to Microsoft and other developers. Since then, we've seen the Western model we have today. Western developers reporting directly to Japanese management, and pretty much making B/C sequels to Nintendo IPs.

>>714024810
I will forever love iwata for telling the xenoblade niggas to make x for wii u

>>714024810
Fuck you I like Toad Treasure Tracker

>>714025374
Okay fart freak

>>714025861
wdym?

Why exactly did so many IPs go to shit when Yamauchi left? Wario Land, Zelda, Metroid, F-Zero, Mario, Donkey Kong, Yoshi etc.. all became worse after 2004. Surely he wasn't the sole responsible for keeping quality at Nintendo?

I didn't even *fart* in that post, how did you know it was me?

>>714024810
>Reminder that Iwata killed the power Nintendo of America had in the 90s
I’m pretty sure it was the PlayStation.

SO glad I'm not a westerner worshipping gooks who hate(ed) me

>>714027274
Iwata was too lax, he gave Miyamoto and Tanabe too much control which lead to shitty games.

>>714023415 (OP)
Apparently he pushed nintendo to make animated movies. Lmao.

>>714027274
don't know what kind of bizzaro world you live in I don't want live there

>>714023415 (OP)
hirosnoy is a rat who abandoned ship.

>>714031724
Kys, he beat Ken Kutaragi.

>>714032618
>oh my science my console is failing I have to jump ship noooooo
>gets raped
>dies
>hirosnoys pretend he saved nintendo after the switch did all the heavy lifting
You won't do shit.

>>714032912
Nintendo as a video game company exists BECAUSE of him, retarded falseflagging zoomer.

>>714033371
>OIIII BUT HE DID SOMETHING ONCE
Don't fucking care, Eric. Switch revitalized Nintendo and put them into a new golden age and now you're seething over it. What did this boomer fuck do? Succeed once and then limp to his demise as each subsequent console sold LESS? Fuck him. He flopped and died and got raped.

>>714023415 (OP)
I feel like the gamecube gen was the last great one, and yamahchi's contributions certainly helped.
Iwata had a vision for what games could be, but without a proper replacement appointed, nintendo went full-blown-aids-corpo, and it certainly shows.
Presumably millions of well trained and conditioned consoomers are under the impression that the S2 is the greatest console yet. This timeline is so unbelievably fucked
>>714027274
Judging by the whiplash in direction change from gc to wii, it was a make or break moment:
Sony and Microsoft were going for raw power and making gaming more accessible to normies by being a multimedia box
Nintendo broke away from caring about graphics, in exchange for gimmicks that appealed to the lowest common denominator casuals, that didn't care about tight gameplay, they just wanted to get caught up in the gimmicky hype
Either way, that gen changed the future of gaming, which I'd argue for the worse.

>>714031486
you are underage.

>>714023415 (OP)
>When Yamauchi left, there was a signifncant decline in quality in terms
When Yamauchi left, there was a decline in profits, but not quality. Quality went down after Iwata has passed.

>>714033459
strong sales only = a new golden age if you're a share holder
Switch did nothing but bring more gimmicks, tried less, and joined Sony and Microsoft in milking everyone out of blanket subscriptions. This is the darkest age in gaming, but most will disagree because the games are just so gosh darn pretty, and heckin immersive.

>>714033459
Bad troll, DS was his idea and it Switch hasn't outsold it.

>>714034574
3DS/Wii U era had the shittiest games of the entire Nintendo library. Soooo many duds, and Mario Mandate was at its worst.

>>714034632
>and joined Sony and Microsoft in milking everyone out of blanket subscriptions.
you don't need those for either local multiplayer even between switches or for single player games anon, which are the only games that matter

>>714034729
True, and I don't care about online play in general. But it was a deliberate decision to get those uninterested in online play, by holding save data recovery hostage, and getting rid of the virtual console to dupe fans of older games into dropping money on the regular instead of one time a la carte
inb4
>Hurr, makes gud business sense durr
Not the point. It's exploitive, and so disheartening that people lack the integrity to collectively see that and call Nintendo out for it. Instead, it sold like wildfire because
>muh new mario and open world zelda
And for most intents and purposes replaced the Wii U AND 3DS, so consumers didn't really have a choice but to come together

The only mistake he made was letting Rare get brought out by Microsoft. He should have brought the rest of the company and maybe the Gamecube would have some more killer apps and especially Donkey Kong would have had avoided that still-ongoing rut it's been in for as long as Yamauchi's been away from the company.

>>714035121
>and getting rid of the virtual console to dupe fans of older games into dropping money on the regular instead of one time a la carte
So what happened to the whole "I'm only pirating old games because buying secondhand is not going to give money to the original devs anyway" cope.

>>714035438
Not my cope. As far as I'm concerned, I was content with paying for products I wanted. But to change the system altogether to make even more putting fans on the spot to decide if its worth it or not is just a shitty thing to do. For me, it's not about money, it's the integrity, or in this case a lack of it

>>714034632
>bring more gimmicks, tried less, and joined Sony and Microsoft in milking everyone out of blanket subscriptions. This is the darkest age in gaming
agreed
now emulation is better than ever and 30years of good content is at hand for anyone with a shitty laptop, so it really depend on your outlook on life
emulations and indies is where it's at, AAA industry is a rotting corpse

>>714023962
>Most people don’t WANT to make a life out of killing, stealing, corruption, and other degenerate shit.
that's peak kino soul thoughever

>>714027274
Wario Land was replaced by the return of 2D Mario
Yoshi was never good, besides Yoshi's Island which was actually a 2D Mario game that just gets retroactively counted as a Yoshi game
>Mario, Zelda, DK
You are nostalgia blinded or otherwise coping
F-Zero was lost in the shuffle as development scale expanded and Nintendo could only continuously keep a few series going themselves, plus some cheap outsourced shovelware series like Mario Tennis or Mario & Luigi. It also did not match the return of blue ocean strategy in the Iwata era.

>>714035698
>now emulation is better than ever and 30years of good content is at hand for anyone with a shitty laptop
Agreed.
But it's not even the AAA industry, it's the architecture of the consoles themselves. Game ownership went dodo, and systems are just a money pit that millions have been brainwashed into thinking it's all worth it. Shit sucks
But to your point, that does open the door to those who seek real gaming to the world of secondhand and pirate gaming

>>714023415 (OP)
It's funny how Nintendo has history in the late 1800s but disappeared during the late 1920s-1940s

Nintendo is a black company who supported war criminals, at least Sony only made appliances before and after the war

>literal yakuza boss
>company does great
>goes public DEI
>dogshit capitol

>thread about the best president and a significant leader in video games is now used for shitposting
Genuinely sad

>>714035816
DKC + 64 is better than the shitty Retro games. Even the Land games are great .

>>714035816
Mario sucked zoomer, and DK was complete shovelware under Iwata, with the shitty Barrel Blast and King of Swing games.

Zelda was crap too, last Yamauchi approved game was Minish Cap. DS games sucked, SS sucked, TP was fine, and BOTW is not real Zelda.

>>714024389
>yamauchi fag is the gamecube hater
Go ahead, call me a "cubesnoy".

>>714030531
Delete this.

>>714031724
kys

>>714037437
Follow your leader Hirosnoy.

Name for the types of glasses yakuza wear?

>>714023415 (OP)
> (he saved HAL Laboratory from going bankrupt in 1993 and turned them into a second-party studio).
So without him, Kirby would be a dead IP and no Smash bros/Sakurai? Based man.

>>714023415 (OP)
I respect his family for having a family owned business for so long. I wonder how much the family gets paid still to this day

>>714036905
Honestly I see good Mario titles on both sides. Iwata maybe the guy with most flashiest of Mario's but yamauchi started it first with sm64

>>714038668
Banjo from Banjo-Kazooie was named after Yamauchi's grandson. Not making this up.

>>714038864
The problem is that the games on left are all visually different from each other, SMB 1-3 and Mario Land 1-2 are on the same system, but have different art directions. Iwata Mario games all have the same soulless "New Super Mario Bros" aesthetic, even the 3D platformers.

>>714037747
Aviator glasses

>>714036905
kek

>>714023415 (OP)
He was right about the meleefags

>>714028737
Most people hate you, high IQ people appreciate other creative and intelligent people and understand everyone else is mostly a piece of shit, I like the guys who made good things and contributed to human culture.

>>714027274
>Surely he wasn't the sole responsible for keeping quality at Nintendo?
He was

>>714043250
Pure cope from a brainlet weeb

>>714024810
Meds

>>714023647
>>when your yakuza front become surprisingly successful and actually work as a proper company
>what a life
Sorry you must be mistaken, this is a thread about Nintendo. Not PlayStation.

>>714032618
>>714033371
>>714023415 (OP)
>>714024389
snoy posts