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XanderXT on 10 April 2015
KLXVER said:
XanderXT said:

It's in a book, Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children by David Sheff, so kinda hard to see it. However, I do have a site: http://www.racketboy.com/retro/nintendo/nintendo-virtual-boy-101-a-beginners-guide

 

Nintendo's PR concerning his resignation:

"It is reality that Mr. Yokoi has indeed left, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the failure of the Virtual Boy. There's no doubt that the Virtual Boy was a failure, but the head of the company himself has said that the blame for that rests on the decision to sell it to begin with. The D-pad and Game Boy that Mr. Yokoi developed are incredible. Such a man taking the blame for the 32-bit device and leaving the company is completely made up."

http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi

Don't link the wikis, link the articles. And second of all, why did he leave then? Was it because he could make better products with Bandai? No, it's because Nintendo didn't want his products anymore.



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XanderXT on 10 April 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
XanderXT said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Anfebious said:

I must have conveniently forgot about your post. It's just that you are such an invisible kind of guy, I have a really hard time noting your presence in every thread I enter.

Well with the white background my polar bearness does give me a natural camouflage

Not really. I can see your nose a mile away. Maybe you should cover it.

Done! Now I iz invisible!

Who are you, and what did you do to Ka-Pi's keyboard, you invisibe monster?



KLXVER on 10 April 2015
XanderXT said:

Don't link the wikis, link the articles. And second of all, why did he leave then? Was it because he could make better products with Bandai? No, it's because Nintendo didn't want his products anymore.


He left to start his own company...



PieToast on 10 April 2015
Anfebious said:
PieToast said:

No one clicked on the source...

And no one read the UPDATE. My experiment is a success.

Yes, I will add it to the OP right now.

To be fair, I didn't read anything either :P. as soon as I saw the words "singer" and "twitter" I knew that Kojima being fired was gonna be an odd interpetation. Why fire the guy when if he was already leaving, willingly or unwillingly. We knew this a long time ago.

I'm guessing that he was asked to resign (not fired) after he done with making and promoting his last project. 

"After we finish MGSV, Mr. Kojima and upper management will leave Konami. They said their contract ends in December,"

Edit: Damn you Anfebious! You're too fast for my stealth edits! 



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Ruler on 10 April 2015
m0ney said:
Because they realized that Splinter Cell was better than Metal Gear Solid confirmed.


 splintter cell is pretty much dead as a series



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Anfebious on 10 April 2015
PieToast said:

To be fair, I didn't read anything from thread either :P. as soon as I read the words "singer" and "twitter" I knew that Kojima being fired was gonna be an odd interpetation. Why fire the guy when if he was already leaving, willingly or unwillingly. We knew this a long time ago.

I'm guessing that he was asked to resign (not fired) after he done with making and promoting his last project. 

"After we finish MGSV, Mr. Kojima and upper management will leave Konami. They said their contract ends in December,"

Makes me feel so good that I just wasted like 4 minutes of my life and you didn't even read my thread. No one really does... *sigh*

Either way it doesn't really affect me. The MGS series should be put to rest.



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m0ney on 10 April 2015
Ruler said:

splintter cell is pretty much dead as a series

It's been dead for almost a decade (since PS2 Double Agent 2006).



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Ljink96 on 10 April 2015

I couldn't care less what happens to Konami. My eyes are all on Kojima and what he does after this.



Platina on 10 April 2015

Sad to hear...



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Arkaign on 10 April 2015

What happens to the PT game? That's what worries me lol. It always seemed like MGS5 was the end anyway.