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"Japanese gamers like to be alone in their rooms and play depressing games" Yamauchi said regarding why PS was more successful than N64 in Japan

lunanto

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This surprising quote is attributed to late Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi, in the matter of Playstation beating Nintendo 64 in Japan back then. Sure great games had nothing to do with it =P Interesting point of view, that can surely lead us to interesting discussions and analysis of that past context.

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Gamers Republic issue page including the quote

More at: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/20...epressing_games_and_lonely_players_apparently
 

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User banned (5 days): Trolling. Inflammatory generalizations. History of similar behavior.
AFAIK he said that people who like jrpgs are losers who live on basements and play with their lights off.

He wasn't wrong back then and he isn't wrong now.
 
wrowa

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Hm, I always heard this quote referring to the RPG genre. What's the right context here?
 
ShinobiBk

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More interesting to me is if that's a hairy leg or arm under the magazine in the op?
 
Fisty

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Jeez I cant even imagine someone having that kind of toxic attitude in today's industry... plus the internet. Yikes
 
Bass2448

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I can see the appeal of basically no human contact and managing just a job. Its comfortable, simple, and attractive. I think Japan has unique issues that further this kind of thinking.

Problem is, It causes problems you can't see until its too late.
 
Hayama Akito

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This is a classic quote from that era, widely discussed with my friends in the nineties lol.

Yet I must confess I still had the idea that this was probably a bad translation, like "Miyamoto hated DKC" stuff.
 

Jiggy

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My man was salty af. He was bitter at Square for years for jumping ship to Sony, it wasn't until Iwata took over that those bridges were mended.
 
Regulus Tera

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I'm failing to find the contemporary relevance of Yamauchi's quotes, especially for one that's as well known as his disdain for video game players.
 
mael

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Kcannon said:
Dude was simultaneously out of touch and consumer-savvy.
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He's also responsible for the DS being the DS btw.
He was incredibly out of touch, like the most out of touch he was the more alive he felt maybe BUT he had the knack to recognize talent and put the right people at the right place.
He handpicked Gunpei Yokoi and later decided on Iwata as the head of the company.
Dude was a very effective CEO, he didn't know jack about games though.
Probably would have similar results in another industry really.
Jiggy said:
My man was salty af. He was bitter at Square for years for jumping ship to Sony, it wasn't until Iwata took over that those bridges were mended.
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And even then it can be argued that it only happened once Square was merged with Enix at that.
 
Dylan

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I kind of agree with that guy who got banned so please don't ban me, but the notion is at least consistent with my personal experience as a loser who liked to be alone and play JRPGS. That said I also loved me some Mario.

It's hard to hate on Yamauchi since he clearly gave zero fucks until the end of his career.
 
Velezcora

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Excuse me but I'm a loser who plays JRPGs while living in his own house. Fuck that basement shit
 

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Yamauchi was always like this, lol. And of course it's not even true, the N64 was just not a very good console, and it had fundamental flaws in its design focus as well as its controller.
 
Soran

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Nintendo legit has made me even more of a hermit with the 3DS and the Switch since I don't even need to go downstair to play games.
 
Akela

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NSESN said:
N64 also had great games tho, in fact many of the most acclaimed games of the era are N64 games
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True of course, but if you wanted to play something more story-driven and RPG focused, genres that really started to blow up during that generation, the N64 was severely lacking. The console simply didn't have an answer to games like Final Fantasy or Metal Gear Solid despite basically owning the RPG genre the generation before.
 
Kill3r7

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As compared to what? They previously played happy or couch co-op games in a dark room.
 
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