Better Nintendo CEO?

[Jumpin]

NightlyPoe said:

Jumpin said:

Nintendo was around for a long time before Yamauchi. He also had a lot less to do with Nintendo’s early video game fortunes than Gunpei Yokoi.

And who was it that discovered Gunpei Yokoi and let him tinker with electronics?

Without Yamauchi pulling him out of the maintenance department, Gunpei Yokoi would have spent his life fixing conveyor belts.

That is in no way justification for giving Yamauchi all the credit of Gunpei Yokoi.

Literally anyone with half a brain would have given Yokoi a promotion, but only Yokoi could offer the philosophical and creative genius that shaped Nintendo into what it was and what it has become decades after his death. No one else had that unless they were themselves shaped/influenced by Yokoi or Yokoi's disciples.