10 May 2008

Nintendo Wii makes Yamauchi Japan's richest: Forbes


Nintendo Co's Wii game console is displayed as a woman looks at a game software
title for Wii at at a Sofmap store in Tokyo's Akihabara district April 24, 2008.


TOKYO (Reuters) -- Soaring sales of Nintendo's Wii game machine have made former Nintendo chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi Japan's richest man, worth $7.8 billion, Forbes magazine said in its annual rankings.

The net worth of Yamauchi, 80, jumped $3 billion in the past year -- boosting him from third place to surpass property tycoon Akira Mori, Japan's richest man last year, the magazine said. full story

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