My theory on the wiis power.

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bdbdbd said:

celine said:

bdbdbd said:

 

As you can see, it was in the N64 era. Maybe i should have been more specific with "N64", since i was meaning Yamauchi apparently saw the industry and Nintendos position in it. Isn't it funny how history repeates itself, Sony has done the excact same thing as Nintendo. Anyway, in general 3rd party relations, were pretty much fixed, when GC was launched, just look at it's good support at start, and what's more important, is they were fixed while Yamauchi was still the CEO. If we look at Nintendos direction and what Yamauchi said couple of years ago, you can see that he had went into himself and rethink things. The biggest difference i see between Yamauchi and Iwata is, that Yamauchi saw 3rd parties as competition, while Iwata sees them partners.

I think the biggest difference between Yamauchi and Iwata is that the former based his judgement on instinct and insight the latter on his understanding and vision of gaming market.

One is self-made man that build a billionarire empire starting from a little hanafuda company the other is the only CEO of bigger gaming company that was a programmer and lived gaming from inside the "software maker" environment.

 

You need to remember that Nintendo started as a 3rd party developer in todays games industry. Now, i'm not saying that Iwata wouldn't have that vision, but so far he has been going by Yamauchis vision at Nintendo. Of course, Iwata chose how to go by that vision.

I remember it

I know that Nintendo was deeply plasmated ( I hope this verb exist ) by Yamauchi strong will ( hell see my avatar ) but when you read Iwata's speech before Wii's launch you understand that that guy know exactly what he and Nintendo were doing.

Iwata's attitude to discuss to the public it's vision and how this vision plasmated their product it's entirely brand-new.

EDIT : Oh and I agree with Happy about graphic ...