Hiroshi Yamauchi is even more loaded

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ckmlb said:
So where's the big man from Sony? If there is one.

 There isn't one. Not that Sony isn't a big company, obviously, but Yamauchi's wealth comes from stocks. The key thing to notice is this:

When Yamauchi took over Nintendo, it was a fairly small company that manufactured playing cards. When he left, it was one of (if not the most) profitable video game developer in the world.

The head of Sony (the last one I know of is Ohda, current is Stringer) inhereted a giant, multi-media empire. When he left, it was a giant, multi-media empire. 

Yamauchi's stock options probably rose to hundreds of times their initial value. No joke. Sony's stock has grown, but at the usual, slow pace of a company that's already Sony's size. That's the difference. Nintendo's new CEO, Sataru Iwata, won't see these figures unless Nintendo grows as much during his reign as it did during Yamauchi's. Which is unlikely unless Nintendo becomes the largest corporation in the world.