Erik Aston on 27 April 2007
| ALKO said:kutaragi like yamauchi??? |
Their backgrounds are totally different, but they both did what was necesary to lead their respective companies into the videogame market, and in turn reinvented that market.
Yamauchi pushed Nintendo to enter what was a dead market, and to his credit, let Yokoi and Miyamoto shape the products.
Unlike Yamauchi, Kutaragi was himself a shaper of the product, but he was also the figure that pushed Sony into what was still viewed as a "fad" market and positioned the product to dethrone Nintendo.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
