Rank the Presidents of Nintendo

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curl-6 said:

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They do, but the resources are in use for handhelds. Yamauchi's problem was to get late to the game. Even NES had sold a lot more if had been released earlier in Europe. By the time NES was out, the market was dominated by game centric computers. As consoles never gained such a popularity in Europe they did in Japan and North-America, Sony managed to had a good hold on this when people were replacing their old Commodores and Amigas. But at the same time the home consoles sales went for worse, handheld sales went for the better.

Consoles sales could still have continued to be great alongside that though, it just didn't happen that way sos N64 and Gamecube were poorly managed. Whatever Yamauchi's wins, and he absolutely deserves credit for them, it also has to be acknowledged that he was responsible for multiple misfires too.

Of course. When you run a company for a long time, you have your misfires. If you don't, you have done nothing meaningful either - it's trial and error. Gamecube did suffer from bad decisions made with N64 that Iwata tried to fix during the GC era. If the console sales had been better, Nintendo surely had grown it's developer base and made more money. Now they just shifted the resources to where they were most useful. Then again, if Nintedo had been serious with Gamecube, it would have had more development resources. I believe there were many games cancelled because of the lack of interest to divert resources to GC, such as Eternal Darkness 2, that apparently was supposed to follow the first one.