Rank the Presidents of Nintendo

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curl-6 said:

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Well, Nintendo's been making videogame systems for 46 years, longer than any other company and is the only dedicated videogame company of those who are still making consoles. Which actually proves that Nintendo have been able to adapt. While Gamecube was doing like shit, the real monster in 6th generation was Gameboy Advance. It was discontinued a bit early in favour of Nintendo DS, but if I'm not mistaken, GBA was the best selling system the time it was on sale until it was replaced.

Doesn't change the fact that their home console division declined steeply from the NES-SNES to the Gamecube.

Actually it's the same division. All the teams were making games for handhelds and home consoles. I think the problem with Yamauchi was delayed product launches because of earlier product's success - NES was doing so good that there was no need for it's successor, so Megadrive had two years headstart from SNES. Eventually SNES was dominant in the market, so Nintendo did not have to hurry N64 to the market, so it was delayed due to Miyamoto procrastinating with Super Mario 64, so Sony had quite a headstart. Gameboy was supposed to have a successor already in 1996, but due to it's dominant position on the market, we did not have it until 2001 with GBA.

Iwata, on the other hand, understood the importance of early launches and this was Sony's strategy aswell.