Hiroshi Yamauchi

[Anonymous No.6719162]

Was he based?

[Anonymous No.6719170]

>>6719162
>called out (((jarpigs)))
I'm thinking yes.

[Anonymous No.6719172]

>...and make it rook like traffic accident... we need purasibu deniabirity...

[Anonymous No.6719173]

>>6719162
He apparently never played video games. So yes

[Anonymous No.6719181]

>>6719162
Based on onions? Absolutely.

[Anonymous No.6719183]

>>6719181
>diet exclusively on noodles and so.y sauce
>still manlier than you'll ever be

[Anonymous No.6719196]

I thought this board was for discussing old ass games not old ass japs.

[Anonymous No.6719201]

is this /vr/'s version of an eceleb thread? you faggots are the worse board on this site.

[Anonymous No.6719205]

>>6719162
Based? Based on what?

[Anonymous No.6719214]

>based
What does this mean? Based on what?

[Anonymous No.6719242]

>>6719183
Manlier than me? Eh, maybe.
Manlier than him? Not a white man's chance in Compton.

[Anonymous No.6719252]

>>6719196
>>6719201
We had a thread on Nolan Bushnell just a week ago

[Anonymous No.6719269]

>>6719201
Should we make a thread asking how based Bernie Stolar is instead then, faggot?

[Anonymous No.6719282]

>>6719269
Why is this even a question?

[Anonymous No.6719358]

On one hand, he groomed Iwata, a complete outsider, as the successor instead of Nintendo of America upstarts, and in the meanwhile thwarted attempted coups by NoA to control the company (gave bigger independence to Europe, took back control of Mario Paint 64 and NST) and it all came to a head when NoA was refusing to publish NCL's attempts at an action romp AAA blockbuster (Disaster for Wii) while pushing for their own pet project, Project Hammer which was in development hell. Iwata stopped much of that, at the cost of atrophying third party relationships (Rare, ex-Argonaut, Silicon Knights, Factor 5...)

Nintendo could have been very well been another Sony of California in 2020.
Yet now their series are still very proud of their Japanese heritage, true to their origins, focused on gameplay rather than the spectacle (a trajectory that near bankrupted Squaresoft and they were never the same after that), and still relatively family friendly and free from cultural enrichment (Project Arms director can tell NoA to fuck off when they suggest removing a clown fighter because it's "ableist" and "triggering", for example)

On the other hand...

He's single handedly responsible for much of Nintendo's hardships from the late SNES generation until the end of the GBA/GC period. Major negative hardware design choices? Burnt bridges? He's often involved.

[Anonymous No.6719375]

wasn't goldeneye his idea?

[Anonymous No.6719387]

>>6719375
More like slantyeye

[Anonymous No.6719397]

>>6719162
His statements on RPGs trigger /v/ and pseudo-/vr/ (/v/ migrants who pretend to be Gen X/millennials), so yes.

[Anonymous No.6719406]

I feel like he was probably a dickhead as a person, but he did alright keeping the company straight. I'm glad he was around but I'm glad I never met him too.

[Anonymous No.6719408]

>>6719170
Would be based if it wasn't just a sad cope for the n64.

[Anonymous No.6719419]

>>6719408
>nooooo nooo not muh weebal weebtasy 43

[Anonymous No.6719427]

>>6719419
I don't give a shit about the genre faggot, doesn't change that the chink was just mad coping when he said that.

[Anonymous No.6719498]

>>6719419
I think you meant to say Weebon Quest and Weeb of Fire.

[Anonymous No.6719506]

>>6719162
You know what I love about guys like Yamauchi, and Miyamoto, and pretty much all other beloved originators and creators and businessmen of Nintendo? They most definitely all hated niggers and probably fags and trannies too. :^)

[Anonymous No.6719567]

>>6719427
Cope or not, it doesn't make what he said any less true.

[Anonymous No.6719638]

>>6719506
based

[Anonymous No.6719736]

>>6719214
basement maybe, that is where he lives?

[Anonymous No.6719770]

He was a genius businessman. He never even played video games though, only board games and gambling.

[Anonymous No.6719802]

He took over his adopted Dad's hanafuda card manufacturing plant and fired a bunch of workers that didn't submit to his authority, he was still pretty young this was like the early 50s. Of course he was focused on profit but that in turn created a ton of real gems over the years, and to be fair some flops too. He was the richest man in Japan when he died, worth like 8 billion or something

[Anonymous No.6720203]

>>6719358
>Nintendo could have been very well been another Sony of California in 2020.
How? Nintendo biggest hits where always made in house, is true that we had Rare, but NoJ where very close to them.

[Anonymous No.6720302]

>>6719162
Jaime pull up that Did You Know Gaming about how Yamauchi was a demon comprised of seven oni souls.

[Anonymous No.6720491]

>>6719173
TPBP

[Anonymous No.6720498]

>>6719770
>He was a genius businessman.
And then the 90s happened. Nintendo got lucky with the success of the famicom and NES, the moment they got some actual competition and couldn't do some of the worst monopoly practices ever seen they shit the bed HARD. Yamauchi then threw tantrums constantly, burned bridges, made their biggest rival that is still going strong to this day, killed one of his most profitable developers, continued to shrink until he stepped down.

He earned the name Hiroshima Yamauchi, his impact on Nintendo was nuclear. The difference is the actual Hiroshima recovered lmao

[Anonymous No.6720520]

He's probably the reason why we never got SMRPG 2. And why we never got anything from SMRPG in the future DS/Wii Mario X Square crossovers besides the Hello, Happy Kingdom theme in both Mario Fortune Street games.
Japanese people can be petty. SMRPG was in '96, mere months before Yamauchi shat on Square, told them to fuck off and burned that bridge until the Gamecube.

[Anonymous No.6720574]

Funny, he didn't hate RPGs back when people were buying Famicoms just to play Dragon Quest.

[Anonymous No.6720585]

>>6719358
>and still relatively family friendly and

On that note. NOJ was more liberal than NOA in game content back in the NES era, but they still wouldn't approve hentai games as Yamauchi wanted to maintain the company's family image, so those were all unlicensed FDS releases.

[Anonymous No.6720586]

>>6720574
Or when pokemon saved his company from bankruptcy while he continued to make awful business decisions.

[Anonymous No.6720589]

>>6719375
Yamauchi liked James Bond and grabbed the license around Goldeneye, then asked Rare first if they wanted to use it because they were Scottish and close to the IP's roots. Then when Goldeneye was one of the best selling N64 games and they got basically no money for it, they told Rare to make their own franchise that was legally distinct enough from 007 that they could use which ended up being Perfect Dark.

[Anonymous No.6720595]

>>6719408
>>6719427
t. LARPing jarpig cuck

[Anonymous No.6720596]

>>6720586
But also thank Iwata for making RBY even playable at all because GameFreak really had no clue what they were doing.

[Anonymous No.6720598]

>>6720596
Nah fuck Iwata, Nintendo deserved to die.

[Anonymous No.6720604]

>>6720586
Handheld games are better as RPGs. Console RPGs are for foreveralones.

>>6720574
How do you know he didn't? Making bank on something doesn't mean you like it.

[Anonymous No.6720606]

>>6720598
Nintendo is thriving right now lmao

[Anonymous No.6720609]

>>6719162
He pretty much Gate kept against third parties didn't he? Maybe he was on to something looking at the mess things are in now.

Interesting that Sega and Nintendo originally turned EA down. They also both turned down "Give us all publishing rights" Sony.

[Anonymous No.6720616]

>>6720574
This might come as a shock to you anon, but you don't need to like every genre of video game, even if you're the president of Nintendo.

[Anonymous No.6720624]

His original plan for the SNES involved a 68000 machine with state-of-the-art chips and NES compatibility. Of course this was absurd and would have bankrupted Nintendo so they had to drop the idea of NES compatibility and go for the much cheaper 65816.

[Anonymous No.6720625]

>>6720616
Sure, but he only shit on RPGs once they stopped making his slanted eye Yakuza ass money. He was absolutely seething, I can only imagine how butthurt he got once he saw FF7's sales number.

[Anonymous No.6720626]

>>6720625
>I can only imagine how butthurt he got once he saw FF7's sales number.
Probably laughed all the way to the bank when he saw OoT's.

[Anonymous No.6720631]

Nintendo have never really bothered with the things that much; even stuff like Paper Mario is its own thing and far from a traditional RPG.

[Anonymous No.6720636]

>>6720631
Hell, starting with SPM (not retro), it stopped being an RPG and became..... something I cannot describe anymore.

[Anonymous No.6720646]

>>6719802
>He took over his adopted Dad's hanafuda card manufacturing plant and fired a bunch of workers that didn't submit to his authority, he was still pretty young this was like the early 50s

Probably boomers who resented taking orders from some kid.

[Anonymous No.6720675]

>>6720606
what a miserable state to call thriving

[Anonymous No.6720754]

>>6720606
yup, they absolutely got their crap together and made the right decisions

[Anonymous No.6720783]

>>6720636
SPM is most certainly retro.

[Anonymous No.6720807]

I’m thinking based.

[Anonymous No.6720812]

>>6720807
Peepee poopoo

[Anonymous No.6720835]

>>6720783
A 2007 Wii game is not retro

[Anonymous No.6720842]

>>6720812
>>>/vrpg/
stay in your containment board

[Anonymous No.6720847]

>>6720675
The Switch is one of the best selling consoles of all time now, IIRC, cuckboy lol.

[Anonymous No.6720850]

>>6720203
About every single major Japanese console manufacturer suffered in one way or another from sabotage by their North American branches.

Sony is the most extreme example, as not only did the American California-based branch take over in a coup, they now hold humiliation rituals for Japanese third parties (fill a new separate rating board application with no defined rules at 2AM for all japanese games and hope it will get approved) and axed most of their uniquely japanese first party licenses and studios (popolocrois, wild arms, etc... had to go to the 3ds and mobile, japanese sony boss announces a bunch of family friendly games for the vita and they all get cancelled months after, etc)

Sega's case is infamous. Bernie Stolar kept Sega bleeding money for TWO years because he didn't want the Saturn, with no backup plan to keep the lights on. Even when the developers still shit working finished ready for release English versions, he rejected them, or sabotaged the releases one way or another (endless change demands for Rayearth, pulling RAM Save carts from WD once they knew they supplied them from japan because the game needed them, sitting on a finished Deep Fear build, wasting time on purpose with Grandia and Lunar until the developers were scared off -only 40% progress on localization in fucking 1998-). It leads to a situation where the dreamcast, even though it sold respectable numbers, still couldn't turn sega's fortunes over.

[Anonymous No.6720858]

>>6720850
Now Nintendo... almost suffered a similar fate.
NoA refused to release the 64DD in late 1998. Only their versions of Mario Party and Zelda broke N64DD compatibility. When Ocarina of Time's release details were announced, they went out of their way to say that whatever 64DD plans the Japanese version will get, they will either include it on cartridge or never release it.

Late releases for major expensive Japanese releases ready for localization (Sin And Punishment) were cancelled.
There's that time NoA said they had a "dream team" of N64 supporters, that included zero japanese publishers. That actually upset third party support at home when they needed to win them up. The "dream team" was mismanaged as hell and went on to support the PS1.
Then there's Mario Paint 64. NoA REFUSED to let NCL interfere in the project. NCL pussied out with Mario no Photopi as their replacement, but once they got their shit together they went and cancelled the cartridge Mario Paint 64 and announce a similar project using its development assets as a 64DD project. That NoA refused then to publish.

Lots of red flags there. Once sales of Nintendo hardware in the west exceeded those of Japan enough to be the "main market", NoA started a power play to be the ones to call the shots globally. They had the gall to tell Nintendo "We refuse to release this console." before it's even out. The defanging of NoA that happened in the 2000s is Yamauchi fixing that.
Actually even Bernie Stolar commented on the situation. He said that Nintendo would be much better off and he "wished" he could try being the CEO of their american branch, but lamented that the Japanese side has "too much control".

[Anonymous No.6720867]

>>6720847
>sales indicates quality
The PS1, PS2 and Wii also sold a lot, but I wouldn't call those good systems either.

[Anonymous No.6720873]

>>6720842
Nah, I'm comfy right here.

[Anonymous No.6720894]

>>6720835
Yes it is.

[Anonymous No.6720980]

>>6720867
lol what the fuck even is this

[Anonymous No.6720997]

>>6720850
>Sega's case is infamous. Bernie Stolar kept Sega bleeding money for TWO years because he didn't want the Saturn, with no backup plan to keep the lights on. Even when the developers still shit working finished ready for release English versions, he rejected them, or sabotaged the releases one way or another (endless change demands for Rayearth, pulling RAM Save carts from WD once they knew they supplied them from japan because the game needed them, sitting on a finished Deep Fear build, wasting time on purpose with Grandia and Lunar until the developers were scared off -only 40% progress on localization in fucking 1998-). It leads to a situation where the dreamcast, even though it sold respectable numbers, still couldn't turn sega's fortunes over.
lol someone's a WD fan. I won't deny they got fucked by practically every company every which way but Vic is still a big fucking baby that cratered his own company into the ground in a fucking tantrum

[Anonymous No.6721043]

>>6720850
>>6720858
So you are full of shit.

[Anonymous No.6721079]

>>6719181
Onions? I always equated his face to a carved apple.

[Anonymous No.6721181]

>>6719162
did you know Hiroshi Yamauchi wasn't actually a human being? He was a vessel that enclosed 7 yakuza oni spirits from 7 different regions in Japan. These oni monopolized the gambling in Japan with the hanafuda Nintendo cards and put a spell so that no other company could produce cards, truly evil.

Yamauchi, often referred to as "大魔王 ティラノ天堂" (Great Evil King Tyranotendo), tyranized the video games market with his monopolic practises, it is said that the Master System or the PC Engine didn't actually ever exist, and that they were invented time after so hide the fact that the Famicom was actually the one and only console existing in Japan.

[Anonymous No.6721217]

>>6719162
extremely

[Anonymous No.6721270]

>>6721181
I see, thanks Jamie

[Anonymous No.6721273]

>>6721217
He's not wrong. You can feed the normies with sub par shit and they will still beg for more.

[Anonymous No.6721537]

Yes and no. His “diplomatic methods” with third parties gave Nintendo a massive share of the market, but it would eventually bite him in the end when those third parties began to distance themselves from Nintendo.

[Anonymous No.6721621]

>>6720858
Well tendy has been shit since N64 so what did Yamauchi fix?

[Anonymous No.6721625]

>>6721181

[Anonymous No.6721639]

>>6721621
>tendy
based /v/

[Anonymous No.6721653]

>>6719638
Unquestionably.

[Anonymous No.6721672]

>>6719173
He apparently never went to a baseball game either despite being a filthy nip.
He's was a weird guy.

[Anonymous No.6721679]

>>6721672
I mean, I'm a Canadian and I've only ever been to three hockey games, and only because my uncle got the tickets from his job.

[Anonymous No.6721691]

>>6721672
Baseball is for cocksuckers, of course he never bothered with that shit.

[Anonymous No.6721701]

>>6721691
>not liking basedball, the best sport
Cringe and söypilled.

[Anonymous No.6721703]

>>6721701
I watched that Ken series about it, surprise surprise, he put baseball in the "burn" pile

[Anonymous No.6721823]

>>6721701
reevaluate your life.

[Anonymous No.6721829]

>>6721703
>>6721823
t. buttmad about not being able to hit homers

[Anonymous No.6721830]

>>6721823
Whoa, more like BASEDball...

[Anonymous No.6721831]

>>6721829
post physique

[Anonymous No.6721836]

>>6721829
Post nose.

[Anonymous No.6721859]

>>6721831
Problem?

[Anonymous No.6721876]

>>6721859

[Anonymous No.6721914]

>>6721859
Enjoy your bAn

[Anonymous No.6721938]

>>6721217
See Fornite, Pokemon, and countless other franchises, the toho was right.

[Anonymous No.6721951]

>>6720812
The irony of posting this image

[Anonymous No.6721967]

>>6721951
I think that's the joke. Or he's so lacking in self-awareness he doesn't see the irony in being obsessed with his shmupper strawman.

[Anonymous No.6721974]

>>6721830
>Whoa, more like Cuckedball

[Anonymous No.6721983]

>>6721974
Strike one!

[Anonymous No.6721986]

>>6721983
You really hate to see it folks

[Anonymous No.6722137]

>>6720858
>>6720589
Reminder that Yamauchi also pushed Doom and idgames on N64 because many Nintendo devs used DWANGO multiplayer on PC's, also the love for origin systems before EA backstabbed them when trip left the company, and Richard Gariott and CR went on to be Pedowood primadonas.

if Q2 and Doom 64 had received 64DD treatment, they would had been the best ports ever made to a console, beating even Sony.
But as always, Fucking California has to ruin everything, and NoA is mostly a Lawyer Firm. worse that is a DNP sysop as sony is by now

nintendo themselves made the D64 ads in japan, even the TV commercial.

[Anonymous No.6722151]

>>6722137
>if Q2 and Doom 64 had received 64DD treatment, they would had been the best ports ever made to a console, beating even Sony.
No, the problems with Quake 2 64 and Doom 64 aren't down to the storage medium.

[Anonymous No.6722159]

He decided to recall the first faulty run of Famicoms because even though it cost Nintendo money, he figured the company's reputation was more important.

[Anonymous No.6722171]

>>6722151
it was.
Doom64 had cut content due to cartridge and memory size.
Q2 for N64 had performance issues due to the same limitations.

the PS1 port is literally what Q2 could had been if it had DD support.

[Anonymous No.6722174]

>>6722171
Q2 had performance issues because the hardware wasn't strong enough to run its own feature set at a performant speed.

[Anonymous No.6722186]

>>6722171
It's kind of like when they put Ultima, King's Quest V, and SimCity on consoles. They just didn't have the memory space for those games and you ended up with some cut-down hunk of garbage.

[Anonymous No.6722806]

>>6719162
His skin is yellowing, he looks like he is turning into a zombie

[Anonymous No.6722810]

>>6722806
He's just asian.

[Anonymous No.6724196]

>>6719201
Doom general on here is an absolute joke.
>half a dozen no-life faggots can't move on from a dopey, ancient FPS
All the keks.
Atleat the Might and Magic shitters keep their crummy, dead franchise general, pretty low key.

[Anonymous No.6724407]

>>6724196
I played Doom and Hexen when they were new and it's fucking astounding that there's even a Doom community large enough to support a general on /vr/ for as long as they've kept it going.

[Anonymous No.6725191]

>>6719162
Duz he eat the dookie