Rank the Presidents of Nintendo

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bdbdbd said:

curl-6 said:

I wasn't referring to their software teams but rather the home console component of their business, which saw both great success under Yamauchi but also a significant decline and loss of market leadership.

Agreed on the launches, though these didn't always go to plan under Iwata either as both 3DS and Wii U launched without enough software ready.

I understand, but it's still the same resources that the company is using and the same cash register the comes to regardless of which they are selling. The hardware is the box to get to play the games.

And those same resources generate less return on investment when a console is failing than when a console is succeeding. Had Gamecube sold as well as the NES, Nintendo would have been far better off. There's just no way around the fact that on Yamauchi's watch their consoles went from great success to failure.