President (Nintendo) Hiroshi Yamauchi resigns:

Who\'s going to take his place?  

President Hiroshi Yamauchi will resign in a prospect in June.

the intention to resign from the president as whom President Yamauchi Ÿî (a fathom -- carrying out) (74) of Nintendo served within the limit of the general meeting of shareholders in June for 53 years was clarified A home video game machine market is expanded by the family computer put on the market in 1983. Nintendo which was a flower card maker was brought up into the global game maker.

According to Mr. Yamauchi, it opts for retirement two years or more before for top rejuvenation. However, while tackling various management subjects, it had changed into the extended state.

Although successor personnel affairs are not clarified yet, it is planned to consider as the collective leadership which discusses [ "future Nintendo does not become what by one human being\'s power, either", or ] management by several management focusing on the president.

Mr. Yamauchi will succeed a grandfather in 49 under Waseda Univ. law department enrollment in school, and he will be inaugurated as the third president. The industry is led by game software development of Pokemon etc., development of a handheld game machine, etc. after [ whose ] Family Computer called the explosive boom. Subject, such as becoming the largest stockholder of Major League Baseball "the Seattle Mariners", was also called. [Kazuyuki Hyodo] (Mainichi Newspapers)

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Well this sucks, he was doing such a wonderful job of driving Nintendo into the ground

Yea he definitely lost his magical touch a few years back.  Still, he brought the company from nowhere to Nintendo so he will be missed...

And yea who will replace him?  Hopefully a fan of Final Fantasy, right?

-Eik

This is old news, and I can easily get a better translation!

Hehe, all joking aside.. I\'m truly sad to see Hiroshi go. Most gamers (like ddaryl) don\'t understand Yamauchi and his decisions. Some may seem erratic, others plain stupid.. but 90% of them worked surprisingly well. This guy definitely knows how to run a business.. he\'s a classic Japanese businessman.

give me a break I understand completely

GC sales are slow and looking grim. Products are being delayed and there has been little effort on Nintendo\'s part to re-establish itself as "THE" gaming company


sure he\'s a "Classic" Japanese businessman, unable to adjust and change his ways

i can only hope that the new president remembers who put them on the map, the mature gamers

nintendo is failing at targeting the 5-9 range

hell, if they keep doing as bad as they are, I\'d just like to see them become another Sega and do nothing but make games and open arcades.

Nintendo doing bad? News to me.

Yeah its really wierd seing the big names go under in this new era of gaming. Maybe its what we need. Soon sony and microsoft + maybe some other new company will start gaming on a new slate. This would be the genesis vs. Snes bout and the mext gen systems after will be the "playstation vs. saturn vs. Jaguar (nintendo. A pioneer trying to make a failed comeback), vs n64. I dont know but we\'l just have to see.  I wonder what the industry would have been like if indrema would have mde it.

Originally posted by Dajona
Nintendo doing bad? News to me.

Well, thier not doing really bad at the moment but they sure are setting themselves up for it.

Well I guess that\'s more understandble.  It was begining to sound like nobody bought a GameCube and they were destined to fall next week.

It\'s best for Yamauchi to go.  He worked wonders but now things need to change.  They need to open up a little.  Had Yamauchi been staying longer I\'d be worried but with a new president and highly anticipated games coming this year they are setting themselves up to be formidable competitor.

Well, just incase I come across biased against Nintendo, Im not.  I havent got the system yet but I problly will as soon as I get around to it.  I just dont want to buy the system and not have any decent games to play but ofcourse that would be my fault if that happnened.

i got a gamecube only because i had nothing else I wanted...

BTW, they do need more mature games, they can\'t live on the Resident Evil Series, they should cut a deal with Take-Two.

Honestly, I don\'t see Nintendo going under.  Not at all.  Sure they are failing to target the mature gamer audience, but they are still right on with younger groups.  That is easily enough to keep them in business.  Do they need to make changes to regain the top spot they once had?  Yes, definitely.  Perhaps this is the first step towards that.

Well, one thing we can all agree on is that they really screwed up and it\'s gonna be a little bit before they get steady again.