Title: Yamauchi Steps Down
Description: The end of an era?
UltraGekko - April 28, 2005 06:15 AM (GMT)
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Nintendo revealed today that former company president Hiroshi Yamauchi (77) will step down from his position on the company's board of director in June. According to the company, Yamauchi made the decision himself due to his age, physical strength and the fact that he'd already spent three years on the board.
Yamauchi first became president of Nintendo in 1949 following his father's death. He served the post during the company's transition from play card maker to toy maker and into the game industry giant that it is now, only handing the role to current president Satoru Iwata three years ago. Since that time, Yamauchi has still had a strong influence on company policy, even making moves last year to put Nintendo in the business of animated movies.
Citing the desire to see the money invested back in the company, Yamauchi declined his retirement compensation package from the company, a package that some estimate at being between ten and fifteen million dollars
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cd2 - April 28, 2005 09:14 AM (GMT)
He must really love the company to decline his retireent package. Oh well good luck to him
Manny M - April 28, 2005 09:23 AM (GMT)
Now there's a man not short on cash.
~DC - April 28, 2005 09:48 AM (GMT)
He's 77 though, I doubt he will get that much enjoyment of it now.
BrotherEstapol - April 28, 2005 10:19 AM (GMT)
Well hopefully this is a step forward for some change at NCL and gives NoA that freedom they've been after. :)
DJ-Civic - April 28, 2005 01:04 PM (GMT)
I heard he was over 100 years old.... :lol:
I doubt he'll stay away for long before he somehow makes his way back into the company.
UltraGekko - April 28, 2005 03:19 PM (GMT)
Well I believe he's still the majority shareholder so that's got to count for something.
Yug - April 28, 2005 03:34 PM (GMT)
Recon he gets free Nintendo games?
:P
Hello - April 29, 2005 07:19 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Yug @ Apr 29 2005, 02:34 AM) |
Reckon he gets free Nintendo games?
:P |
I bet that he also has seven wives and each one is dressed up as Princess Peach and he gets them to call him 'Mario' and stuff like that. That'd be the life.
BrotherEstapol - April 29, 2005 07:57 AM (GMT)
If I recall, I believe he hadn't ever touched any video games for quite some time after the Famicom's/NES's success, and even now he hardly plays them very much at all.
But I know he's a real fan of Go. :D (it's the Japanese equivalent of Chess. ;))
da fool - May 3, 2005 10:03 AM (GMT)
thats right he is down but his faithful relatives will take control
kami - May 4, 2005 07:03 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (BrotherEstapol @ Apr 29 2005, 06:57 PM) |
If I recall, I believe he hadn't ever touched any video games for quite some time after the Famicom's/NES's success, and even now he hardly plays them very much at all.
But I know he's a real fan of Go. :D (it's the Japanese equivalent of Chess. ;)) |
I thought it's more the equivalent of reversi with
shogi being the japanese chess.
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| Citing the desire to see the money invested back in the company, Yamauchi declined his retirement compensation package from the company, a package that some estimate at being between ten and fifteen million dollars |
*wonders if that's USD or yen...*
^_^
BrotherEstapol - May 4, 2005 07:12 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (kami @ May 4 2005, 06:03 PM) |
| QUOTE (BrotherEstapol @ Apr 29 2005, 06:57 PM) | If I recall, I believe he hadn't ever touched any video games for quite some time after the Famicom's/NES's success, and even now he hardly plays them very much at all.
But I know he's a real fan of Go. :D (it's the Japanese equivalent of Chess. ;)) |
I thought it's more the equivalent of reversi with shogi being the japanese chess. |
Well the book I read kept refering to Go as a Japanese chess.
Though I think it wasn't so much that the rules are similar, but it was more that it was a very strategical board game played by intellectuals.
I can't for the life of me remember what the rules for Go are, so if you reckon shogi is more like chess, then I'll take your word for it.
BTW, WTF is Reversi? :huh:
[DZ] - May 4, 2005 08:00 AM (GMT)
Oh well, Iwata is a good leader, he seems okay. Animated movies? Why not??! :huh: As long as they don't pull a Square...
Yamauchi might never get to see the next next-gen Ninty console. Poor old man. :(
BrotherEstapol - May 4, 2005 09:51 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE ([DZ] @ May 4 2005, 07:00 PM) |
Oh well, Iwata is a good leader, he seems okay. Animated movies? Why not??! :huh: As long as they don't pull a Square...
Yamauchi might never get to see the next next-gen Ninty console. Poor old man. :( |
He's only 77 dude, he's got at least another 10 years I reckon.
Yug - May 4, 2005 12:27 PM (GMT)
Maybe its just that he isnt that interested in video games anymore ... perhaps at the ripe old age of 77 he has realised that *gasp* theres more to life than just video games
BrotherEstapol - May 4, 2005 02:24 PM (GMT)
Like I said before, he doesn't play videogames.
He was running the family buisness.(with an Iron Fist :P)
kami - May 5, 2005 02:08 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (BrotherEstapol @ May 4 2005, 06:12 PM) |
| QUOTE (kami @ May 4 2005, 06:03 PM) | | QUOTE (BrotherEstapol @ Apr 29 2005, 06:57 PM) | If I recall, I believe he hadn't ever touched any video games for quite some time after the Famicom's/NES's success, and even now he hardly plays them very much at all.
But I know he's a real fan of Go. :D (it's the Japanese equivalent of Chess. ;)) |
I thought it's more the equivalent of reversi with shogi being the japanese chess. |
Well the book I read kept refering to Go as a Japanese chess.
Though I think it wasn't so much that the rules are similar, but it was more that it was a very strategical board game played by intellectuals.
I can't for the life of me remember what the rules for Go are, so if you reckon shogi is more like chess, then I'll take your word for it.
BTW, WTF is Reversi? :huh:
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From the vauge impression I have of Go, reversi is basically Go under a different name. I'm assuming it's a game where you have white and black pieces and the object is to flip over pieces to your colour by getting a row of the other colour between two of pieces of your colour.
Though shogi seemed quite complex - particularly with the way pieces can be promoted...