Former Nintendo President Hiroshi Yamauchi has passed away aged 85
Japanese news source Nikkei is reporting that Nintendo has announced that Hiroshi Yamauchi, former president of the company has passed away. He was 85 years old.
Yamauchi was a gaming industry titan who took Nintendo from a small playing card company in Japan into the video game behemoth it still is today. Hiroshi Yamauchi was the third president of Nintendo, he joined the company in 1949 and was president until May 31, 2002. He was president of the company for a massive 53 years.
Yamauchi was also formally Japan’s richest man and up until 2012 was the 12th richest person in the world.
Hiroshi Yamauchi’s legacy to gaming is still felt today, he is responsible for the modern gaming market as we know it. Your memories with early gaming, this guy is responsible.
Rest in peace, Yamauchi-san.
Update:
Current president and CEO Satoru Iwata has released a statement on behalf of Nintendo.
[quote]The entire Nintendo group will carry on the spirit of Mr. Yamauchi by honouring, in our approach to entertainment, the sense of value he has taught us — that there is merit in doing what is different — and at the same time, by changing Nintendo in accordance with changing times.[/quote]
R.I.P. and thank you for everything, Hiroshi Yamauchi.
How do we tell if an article is stickied? http://vooks.net/ keeps showing this news piece at the top, on top of newer news pieces with no explanation and no visual indicator indicating it is getting special treatment as far as I can tell (It does deserve special treatment though, sad that he died).
It’s just annoying seeing the main web page seemingly trying to emulate the new Kotaku with having articles in an asinine order instead of chronological or at least an explanation for the lack of chronological order.
Really? You’re going to complain about this? On this story? Show some respect.
You can tell if something else is new because the date of the stories below it have a newer date, it’s not that hard and many many blogs do it.
We have no desire to emulate Kotaku’s awful blog format (US site). For 99% of the time stories are in chronological order and only stuck when appropriate.
The next time a president of Nintendo dies email me your complaint. Your lack of respect is now marked here forever more.
Eventually this article will be “Unpinned” and will jump several spaces down the list making it wtf and harder to follow what’s new and what isn’t without looking at the tiny gray text on white/gray background containing the date the article was posted. (Blue background if you open an article up however, which is vastly better but requires you to open the entry to easily read the date)
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And so I will refrain from future comments if this is how the staff treats new people.