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Exactly this. Nintendo and Twitter are extremely similar. Twitter lucked into an AAA product, and management hasn't been able to leverage it to anything like t
by padobson 10y ago
Exactly this.
Nintendo and Twitter are extremely similar. Twitter lucked into an AAA product, and management hasn't been able to leverage it to anything like the Facebook competitor it should have been.
Nintendo lucked into hiring a game design genius (Miyamoto) who also happened to be a great mentor and producer, meaning they've had a steady stream of AAA games for 30+ years.
If either one of these companies had great CEOs, they would easily be dominating their respective industries.
- astrange 10y agoNintendo has had several great CEOs who are no longer with us.
- EpicEng 10y agoNintendo is a 127 year old company. Pretty sure they didn't stagnate for 100 years before finally hitting their stride with Miyamoto.
- padobson 10y ago70 years of being a family-owned, regional playing-card company is pretty much the definition of stagnation. Hiroshi Yamauchi deserves credit for having the vision to expand into electronic games, but nothing they did before Miyamoto could truly be considered a market-shaping event. Other than switching to electronics and hiring Miyamoto, Yamauchi was a middling CEO at best. Super Mario is one of the most recognizable characters in the world. The NES sold 60 million units. The SNES sold 50 million units. If a great CEO had been running Nintendo at any point since ~1983, Nintendo would be Disney right now.