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Hiroshi Yamauchi Quotes

d. 2013 Japan

Hiroshi Yamauchi 山内溥 (7 November 1927 - 19 September 2013) was the third president of Nintendo, famous for transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card making company in Japan to a multi-billion dollar video game company.

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[People who play RPGs are] "depressed gamers who like to sit alone in their dark rooms and play slow games."

I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the videogame business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies.

Hey Ballmer, suck my yellow balls

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hiroshi Yamauchi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.