| Soundwave said: Yamauchi had started to step back by the time GameCube went into development, he wasn't as actively involved as by the late 1990s he was preparing to step down as president. I don't really think I need to censor my opinions. IMO, Miyamoto was selfish and put himself ahead of Nintendo as a business, and the company suffered horribly as a result. He's a great game designer but had no business interjecting himself into the company's decisions like that, at best the only thing he should have been allowed to influence is the N64 having a cartridge slot maybe in lieu of the RAM Expansion Slot. But he or other Nintendo designers should not have had any sway in pushing for CD-ROM to be axed from the N64 entirely. Anyone who convinced Yamauchi of that was an idiot. Like sorry, I don't know how else to put it. Just because Wily Wonka is great at making chocolates doesn't mean you put him in charge of the company's accounting division and let him do the tax returns. It's a tough industry, these mistakes haunt Nintendo to this very day. |
That's your way of seeing it. I see it differently and think it's unfair to blame everything on him. And at the end of the day, nothing happens.
Nintendo always thought that software and hardware go hand in hand, that a good game can only be as good as the hardware allows it to be and vice versa. From this point of view, it made sense to have Miyamoto take decisions. Yes, he fucked up stuff. But he also made great decisions.
By the way, the 64DD used to be a thing. So saying they pushed for CD-ROM to be axed from the N64 entirely is wrong. At least they tried.
