Nintendo's greatest creator (Person)

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Jumpin said:

Agreed. Okada wasn't discrediting Yokoi and replacing an idea, but rather helping perfect the idea. This is true with the process of many collaborative art forms, including music and film.

That said, Okada is a name that should really be mentioned among Nintendo's greats, too.

So, if I were to give a "Mount Rushmore" or the four people most important in defining Nintendo, it would be Yokoi, Okada, Miyamoto, and Tezuka. And then there are really great people down the road the further represented the ideas of these four, perhaps in superior ways such as Koizumi and Iwata.

As a note, as designers/creative artists, I'm also a big fan of Tetsuya Takahashi (but that foes way back before his time with Nintendo) and Shigesato Itoi.

I'd say the person most influential in shaping Nintendo is Yamauchi and should be on a Mt. Rushmore more than anyone as he's the one that not only pushed the companyinto gaming but to also create their own platform, he actually set the parameters that defined the approach those under him would take, the people at the company were well up to the task but Yamauchi reigning the whole company in forced ingenuity and resourcefulness.

Nintendo's whole identity is defined purely by him down to the platforms to be mainly sold by first party titles.