Osamu Inoue

http://lampbane.livejournal.com/631014.html

"The book makes a point out of the fact that Nintendo brass doesn't give a lot of interviews for fear of giving away their 'essential Nintendoness' or whatever; as such, Inoue overly praises the company and its personnel at every turn and barely addresses the bumps on the road. Even the failures are given a nice sheen—I don't think I've ever seen anyone talk about the Virtual Boy in such glowing terms. Apparently it was our (the consumer's) fault show more that it failed, because we weren't visionary enough, and not say, because it caused headaches.

When the book isn't busy praising Iwata, Miyamoto, Yokoi and whomever else, it at least gives you some insight into the development of the DS and Wii. The parts where they go behind-the-scenes are perhaps the most interesting, unfortunately there aren't enough of them. There's some vague and/or brief discussion of the hardware, a little more can be said for the software side of things. It was nice to learn some of the background behind say, Brain Age, though I wonder if some research on my end could have yielded the same results." show less