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Evidently nothing came of the proposal, but I find it very difficult to believe that the executives of a Japanese company would "laugh" a proposal like this "ou
by microtherion 6y ago
Evidently nothing came of the proposal, but I find it very difficult to believe that the executives of a Japanese company would "laugh" a proposal like this "out of the room". I imagine the scene played out with a lot of tea, carefully calibrated bows, and apologies about the timing of this excellent proposal not being auspicious.
patio11 probably could provide a more accurate projection of a sarariman reaction to the MS offer.
- jvzr 6y agoThey may have met with Nintendo of America? Which would make this story plausible
- gamegoblin 6y agoNintendo of America is headquartered in the same city as Microsoft (Redmond WA), so this is definitely plausible.
- theandrewbailey 6y agoI was going to say Nintendo is across/down the road from Microsoft, but checking again, Microsoft surrounds them: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nintendo+of+USA/@47.6510523,-122.1435848,16z/data=!4m8!1m2!3m1!2sNintendo+of+USA!3m4!1s0x54906d69e6f323ad:0x1bc8d9a86386ffbc!8m2!3d47.6510519!4d-122.1392074 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nintendo+of+USA/@47.651052...
- Zelizz 6y agoWith Go rules, they'd already be ours!
- boogies 6y agoalternative map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=428818970#map=16/47.6507/-122.1380 https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=428818970#map=16/...
- justinlloyd 6y agoHistorical perspective: At that time, Microsoft did not surround them, as far as I recall. Nintendo was a separate and distinct office complex.
- rasz 6y agoEqually polite, even to a crazy person https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-and-reggie-fils-aime-had-to-politely-decline-an-offer-to-work-with-kanye-west-on-a-game https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-and-reggie-fils-aime-h... Kanye visited the Nintendo Booth during that E3 and was even able to spend a bit of time with Shigeru Miyamoto. He then requested a meeting with Reggie, and the two ended up meeting up at one of Kanye's offices in Calabasas, California. I told him, ‘Kanye, you don’t want to work with us because we’re tough, we’re hard. All we do is push for the very best content. We would not be the type of partner you would want to work with.’
- saagarjha 6y ago"Why can't I work with you?" "Well, Kayne, it's because we only want the best. We push very hard for that." "And…" "You're not that."
- franklampard 6y agoYou have such a naive stereotype about Japanese people
- pesfandiar 6y agoThat and it's apparently making fun of Japanese accent ("sarariman"). It's a pity that this is the top comment on HN right now.
- subsubzero 6y agoApparently you don't know about katakana, its a form of the Japanese alphabet that is specifically used for foreign words translated to Japanese. The pronunciation of these words sounds similar to their foreign counterparts. think sararimam == salaryman, hanba-gu == hamburger, terebijon == television and so on. katakana - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana
- ezoe 6y agoIf he really knows kana, he should write it as sarari-man as the third vowel is long vowel.
- colejohnson66 6y agoIs it a hyphen? Or would it be saraiiman? I actually don’t know.
- panda88888 6y agoYour form is correct based on faint recollection of what I learned in college Japanese class.
- ezoe 6y agoIt shall be ー, but if we use that, we should also use rest of the kanas too.
- fomine3 6y agoThe Nintendo president Mr.Yamauchi at the time was very unique person. His personality can't be guess from Japanese stereotype.