Masayuki Uemura has died
"When I developed the Famicom, I put all the basic functions that were necessary to make it as a gaming device. For the Switch, it's inherited all that over the years. All the successes and failures of the Famicom are inherited by the next generation of consoles and onward."<p>What did he consider to be the failures?<p>EDIT: Added the first sentence of the quote.<p>The way I read the quote is he felt there where fundamental designs decisions that have been passed down all the way to the Switch. Some of which he considers to be failures.<p>I imagine he is talking about the hardware/software stack. OS seems pretty custom: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_software" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_softwar...</a>