Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85
R.I.P, I idolized this man as a child, being a fervent subscriber to Nintendo propaganda magazines.<p>Nowadays my opinion of him is more nuanced. Like Steve Jobs, he built these perfect products by being an absolutely ruthless business man.<p>The way he treated Nintendo business partners makes the Apple app store look like kinder garten. How many game developers and studios must be cursing his grave?<p>Yet from his iron shelve management strategies and business practices sprouted a range of exquisite products that every young adult remembers with tremendous fondness and respect. He truly was putting consumer experience over everything else.<p>I think that's what we should thank him for :)