Hiroshi Yamauchi knew that he wouldn’t be able to lead the company in the bold new direction that he wanted it to go in after the Nintendo GameCube’s launch. They were being beaten by Sony and Microsoft in this new console race. Luckily enough for Yamauchi, he’d appointed a rising star within Nintendo to handle software planning and be able to prove his leadership skills to Yamauchi for the final time. This rising star just happened to be Satoru Iwata.
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