He's in a better place. Reunited with Nintendo at last.
I wish he took amiibos with him
People should go back and read the stuff this dude was saying around the time of Gamecube. Totally disrespectful of third parties, Western consumers, and the industry in general.
I'm glad he lived long enough to see Wii U shit the bed and mobile decimate his company's handheld market.
>>330074893
This guy gets it. It would be very unfortunate if he died right after Wii U's launch.
>>330074893
This tbch
I don't think it's coincidental that 2001 was the last year Nintendo released decent 1st party, and the repercussions of the Wii being a disappointing product is going to haunt Nintendo for generations
>>330074893
>>330075010
>>330074524
>>330074279
>Wasting your personal heaven on vidya
>>330075496
We don't care what you look like nintoddler
>>330075496
>>330074893
>People should go back and read the stuff this dude was saying around the time of Gamecube. Totally disrespectful of third parties, Western consumers, and the industry in general.
Genuinely curious about this. Any links or quotes?
>>330075808
https://dromble.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/dolphin-tale-story-of-gamecube/
That's the definitive article. Details pretty much everything about the Gamecube, from the origins of the GPU with their N64 days, to the ugly collapse of their US market.
Go read the shit their Japanese executives were saying, the dismissive tone they took towards Microsoft specifically. They deserved to get their clock cleaned and to be quite honest they shouldn't get another cent from the Western market.
>>330074279
>nobody noticed OP was making a subtle joke about nintendo being dead
>>330076131
>dissing on Yamauchi's greatest ally and confidant
>>330076184
That joke has been run into the ground so long it found it's way to China to be resold to the west using cheap parts.
>>330076184
More like you're the only one retarded enough to spell out the "joke"
>>330076401
If you read the article, you'll see plenty of choice quotes from Yamauchi too taking shots at Microsoft and the Western market.
He flat out said that the customers in Japan had "more discriminating tastes" than Westerners and that the "same old genres might work in America, but not in Japan". So it's pretty appropriate that his company has become nothing but a rehash factory catering to otaku subhumans.
>>330076917
He was right though
>>330077051
No, he wasn't. Outside of a few companies like FromSoftware, Japan has been a terrible drag on the gaming industry in general for well over a decade.
>>330074279
Haha! Good one OP.
>shitting on Nintendo
Classic. *high fives you*
Welcome to /v/ you are now one of us!
>>330076917
He wasn't wrong though.
>People who play RPGs are depressed gamers who like to sit alone in their dark rooms and play slow games
Still true to this day
>>330074279
>>330074524
>>330076673
no u
>>330077180
>Outside of from
You mean including from
>billion kings quest games
>billion armored core games
>billion souls games that are basically more kings quest games
>only other notable game is some over the top mecha game where you play as the POTUS
>>330074279
kek'd
>>330077201
This guy is literally in tears.
>>330077212
That applies to Japanese RPGs too.
>>330077363
>kings quest
Stopped reading here.
Inform yourself before spouting bullshit.
>>330076917
>He flat out said that the customers in Japan had "more discriminating tastes" than Westerners
The Japs don't even give a shit about video games anymore, do they? All they care about is mobage now.
>>330074279
This is him 3 weeks before he died.
>>330077784
Precisely, which is why Nintendo's crumbling market share is funny. They pointed a lot of fingers and whined a lot about the Western market during Gamecube when it was just one generation before where the United States alone was responsible for the N64's profitability.
>>330077180
If Western consumer culture were more discriminating, we wouldn't be experiencing the droubt of games we are now. Instead, Americanos and Eurocucks just buy up the latest AAA skyrim with guns and now the whole fucking industry is based around those games. Far Cry Primal has to be one of the stupidest fucking concepts for a game I've ever seen, and that's the direction the market is taking. Even setting that aside. What's popular in the west today? What's our big innovation this generation? Walking sims.
Iwata was right.
>>330077858
Should have lifted.
>>330078076
>I'm happy with western tastes where health regenerates, you can pay to win, yearly installments kill a series, everyone is a brown bald marine
haha, ok anon, ok
>>330078101
>Iwata was right.
About what? "Fuck games, make plastic toys"?
>>330078101
>Far Cry Primal
Almost everyone working at Ubisoft is some kind of shit skin Muslim. The only thing "Western" about Ubisoft is their owner and where their HQ is located.
>>330077618
kings field, whatever nerd.
>>330074279
epic le nintendo is dead meme OP
>>330078243
The toys came because the games stopped selling. Many of the series you people claim to love as a part of Nintendo's past have been put to rest because Western market trends have not supported them.
>>330078325
Sorry m8, but Ubisoft is still Western
I was trying to move my miis from my sysNAND to my emuNAND on my 3ds but my special Iwata one isn't able to have a QR code made from it :(
>>330078101
I don't see what's so bad about the concept of far cry primal, it's the execution that's bad about it. It just rehashed far cry in a different skin instead of actually building the game around its unique concept.
>>330075472
>>330075472
>2001
>Last year Nintendo released decent 1st party
This isn't even shit taste. This is beyond shit taste.
>>330078759
It just rehashed far cry in a different skin instead of actually building the game around its unique concept
That's why it's bad
>>330078570
>I-it's not Nintendo's fault we make stupid shit now, IT'S THOSE FILTHY BAKA GAIJIN!!!!!
You weebs crack me up.
>>330079001
Yeah but you said the concept itself was bad.
The concept was good, it was something different. What other game have you played where you're a prehistoric hunter fighting mammoths and saber tooth tigers? It was also cool that they did research to find out what the language should sound like.
>>330079058
Try to prove me wrong without memeing.you can't, because you're an idiot
>>330079001
The game is bad. The concept is still unique.
Nintendo's sales pretty much speak for themselves.
I wonder if their fanboys will keep sucking when all they do is Mario-themed phone poker, theme parks, and Pixar movies.
>>330079129
The concept is bad. It's Far Cry but cavemenz. This was never not a stock Far Cry game with stock gameplay. Are you not getting that?
>>330079174
Nintendo makes the shitty Amiibos. They are at fault. What do I win senpai?
>>330079331
A free trip to >>>/reddit/ for failing utterly
>>330079412
Cry more fanboy. Go there yourself if you want a hugbox.
>>330079551
Seems like you're the one who needs a hug, famiglia. Little upset?
POST THE PICTURE NOW
>>330079641
>Y-y-you mad!
Anon, are you even going to try arguing the point anymore? Are Nintendo at fault for amiibos or not? It is up to you to defend them. Glorious Nippon's honor is at stake.
>>330079791
I guess the difference between me and you is that I can talk about something without getting emotionally invested and flying off into a tard rage
Anyway you're evidently not reading my posts, so how else am I supposed to entertain myself? So I'll just call you an angry little man, which is what you are.
>>330079791
Facts are a cancerous tool of the western markets to bring down the honorable Japanese video game artists.
>>330080130
>The toys came because the games stopped selling. Many of the series you people claim to love as a part of Nintendo's past have been put to rest because Western market trends have not supported them.
That's you anon. Good luck defending it.
>>330080347
No part of that is untrue. I'm waiting for a rebuttal that doesn't amount to LOL TOYS! ??? and shitposting.
>>330080510
It is a very poor defense of a poor product.
>We only made this piece of shit because people didn't buy the other stuff we made that isn't related to it at all!
Nintendo made amiibos. Not the western markets. Get your head out of your ass.
>>330080856
I'm not trying to defend amiibos to you. That's not what I've been trying to do. Amiibos are a reaction to Nintendo's shrinking market share. It generates profit where their games aren't. It makes perfect sense from a business perspective that they would move to that model. Nintendo isn't stupid. They realize people like you would rather pirate their games on competitor's systems, so they created public desire for something that can't be pirated.
I don't give a fuck about amiibos or whether you like them. You and I aren't Nintendo's target market. They weren't wrong for abandoning you.
>>330076184
Maybe because said joke is literally older than you, your parent's, your grandparents and possibly your great grandparents
>>330076184
Never heard that joke before.
>>330082117
>new nintendo console proceeds to print money
>Wii U
