| Mr Khan said: Really it's Gunpei Yokoi who developed Nintendo as we know it today. Yamauchi's genius was in realizing that Yokoi had good ideas instead of telling him "shut up and make more hanafuda cards." |
This is a very good point. Gunpei was extremely instrumental in damn near every classic Nintendo game, he was Miyamoto's mentor. Very underappreciated.
However, like Phil Jackson and MJ, it takes a strong minded individual to get talented people to stay in line and reign in developer creativity for the betterment of the company as a whole. Yamauchi was such an individual. I hope Nintendo does not die with him.
Bet between Slimbeast and Arius Dion about Wii sales 2009:
If the Wii sells less than 20 million in 2009 (as defined by VGC sales between week ending 3d Jan 2009 to week ending 4th Jan 2010) Slimebeast wins and get to control Arius Dion's sig for 1 month.
If the Wii sells more than 20 million in 2009 (as defined above) Arius Dion wins and gets to control Slimebeast's sig for 1 month.
