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SmokedHostage on 06 October 2011

Yamauchi

"There are many people in the industry that know nothing about games. In particular, a large American company is trying to do engulf software houses with money, but I don't believe that will go well. It looks like they'll sell their game system next year, but we'll see the answer to that the following year."

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ghost_of_fazz on 06 October 2011

Yamauchi.

I'm pretty sure Bill Gates is not THAT involved into the gaming division of MS like Yamauchi was with Nintendo.

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Yamauchi. He's done more in the gaming industry than Bill.

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Alby_da_Wolf on 07 October 2011

Bill Gates is overvalued, IBM PC HW architecture and its clones, with a standard OS, together with Apple and, starting and ending before, Sinclair and Commodore, caused the expansion of personal computing, but had Gary Kildall accepted to develop the OS for the PC instead of MS, PC progress would have been a lot faster. It took 9 years since 32bit introduction with the 386 to MS to really use it in a mainstream OS, Windows 95 (it did a few years sooner, but still late, with Windows NT that was still a small niche and IBM OS/2 back then was a lot better). Windows was late also on 64bit, a free OS developed by volunteers like Linux beat Windows also on it, the first acceptable Windows 64bit versions arrived later. So, while as businessman Bill Gates is unbeatable, his influence on computing hasn't been as positive as gullible people believe. And he had very little on gaming.
So my vote is for hoochie coochie Yamauchi.

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