Bill Gates sees Nintendo as toughest competion

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In a recent interview with TV Tokyo, Bill Gates said that, in the video game industry, Microsoft’s biggest competition is not Sony but Nintendo.

“The strength of Nintendo on the portable space has been very impressive and surprised a lot of people; and the strength of the Wii; and we see Nintendo as the toughest competition,” said Gates. Gates’ statements are not a surprise considering the tremendous sales both the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii have enjoyed since they went on sale.

Straight from the man at the top of the highest techno-tower in the world. Anyone who says Bill Gates is not “far-seeing” is kidding themselves.  Looks like Microsoft has an idea of how this “Console War” will play out.

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  • Nintendo.Rob.

    Hmm, not surprising really. i’ve got a Wii but getting an 360 soon, yay.

  • Nintendo.Rob.

    Hmm, not surprising really. i’ve got a Wii but getting an 360 soon, yay.

  • Nintendo.Rob.

    Hmm, not surprising really. i’ve got a Wii but getting an 360 soon, yay.

  • Nintendo.Rob.

    Hmm, not surprising really. i’ve got a Wii but getting an 360 soon, yay.

  • Benny Hill

    It also could be simply because he’s talking to japan, which we know, is still basically owned by nintendo, unlike the us, where before the release of the wii, found itself an uphill battle in north america. For the most part, they still have one, it’s too early to declare nintendo the winner this time around, but I think we’ll know in a year, since by then halo 3 will have come out, as well as MP:3 corruption, and maybe sony will come up with something… another FF perhaps?

  • Benny Hill

    It also could be simply because he’s talking to japan, which we know, is still basically owned by nintendo, unlike the us, where before the release of the wii, found itself an uphill battle in north america. For the most part, they still have one, it’s too early to declare nintendo the winner this time around, but I think we’ll know in a year, since by then halo 3 will have come out, as well as MP:3 corruption, and maybe sony will come up with something… another FF perhaps?

  • AJ

    I love how they put the Wii channel screen on that old but classic photo.

  • AJ

    I love how they put the Wii channel screen on that old but classic photo.

  • Mick Kaine

    This interview actually happened months ago. Very old news, like Decemberish.

  • Mick Kaine

    This interview actually happened months ago. Very old news, like Decemberish.

  • Mick Kaine

    This interview actually happened months ago. Very old news, like Decemberish.

  • Tyler

    Mick, Dont try to make this confession seem like obselete news. Take a closer look at the picture… The Everybody Votes channel is up there, which was released in the middle of February ; )

  • Tyler

    Mick, Dont try to make this confession seem like obselete news. Take a closer look at the picture… The Everybody Votes channel is up there, which was released in the middle of February ; )

  • Will

    Why can’t anyone seperate the news from the photoshopped pictures that go along with them? Just because the news was posted with a picture obviously touched up no very long ago doesn’t make the news itself old.

  • Will

    Why can’t anyone seperate the news from the photoshopped pictures that go along with them? Just because the news was posted with a picture obviously touched up no very long ago doesn’t make the news itself old.

  • 32BitBob

    Story: “Anyone who says Bill Gates is not “far-seeing” is kidding themselves.”

    Anyone who hasn’t yet figured out that Nintendo is a force to be reckoned with, is deaf, dumb, blind, and quite dead. Sorry, bub, but Microsoft is still reacting.

  • 32BitBob

    Story: “Anyone who says Bill Gates is not “far-seeing” is kidding themselves.”

    Anyone who hasn’t yet figured out that Nintendo is a force to be reckoned with, is deaf, dumb, blind, and quite dead. Sorry, bub, but Microsoft is still reacting.

  • Marketrue

    I entered computers way back in 70/71 and was using programmable calculators with nixie tubes. Then got into 2002/2008/8080/z80/etc. Then it was CP/M and had PascalMT+ from one of the people mentioned in Gates history who lived up in Solana Beach who I believe developed concurrent CP/M 86 or MP/M. What most people don’t realize is that Gates is mostly a business person (yah, maybe knows some programming) and took what at the time was called QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and maybe reworked it into PC-DOS. Later IBM got involved, bought the OS and Gates went on w/MS and called it MS-DOS. QDOS I believe came from Canada and he exploited it here in US. Made a fortune but a chief architect, hah. Mostly a business oriented Harvard graduate not a s/w engineer at heart. But as time evolved, his OS became a “defacto” standard and all jumped on the band wagon. I credit the people he hired to work on OS’s and apps more than him on the evolution as flawed as may be in many areas as he probably made decisions not too popular with developers.