An adviser of Kyoto-based video game maker Nintendo Co. has donated 7 billion yen of his own money for the construction of a new building of Kyoto University Hospital, a hospital official said Tuesday.

When Hiroshi Yamauchi, 78, was hospitalized in June to get medical treatment for his eyes, he learned the hospital in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, was considering replacing four old buildings with a new one. He offered to make a donation, saying that he wanted the hospital to construct a building worthy of a university hospital.

The new ward will have eight stories above ground and one underground and a total floor space of about 20,000 square meters.

Construction of the building, which will be endowed with highly advanced medical equipment, will begin early next year and be completed in 2008.

Yamauchi succeeded to his family business and became the firm's president in 1949. The firm made dramatic growth internationally thanks to video games sold in the early 1980s.

He ranked 41st on the annual list of the nation's top 100 taxpayers in 2004 with income tax of about 484 million yen. He ranked fourth in the Kinki region.

Yamauchi said he hoped the new building would be completed as soon as possible.

Very generous. 

I bet if he were an ex-Sony president he wouldn't do the same, ho hum...

Screw Sony.  They rip people off.  PS2 pissed me off so bad...and then there was good ol' Nintendo, getting screwed because Americans were buying Sony's instead of fashionable GCs!!

Please, PS2 debuted with a malfunction, limited numbers, the weakest graphics, and only 2 controller slots.

Oh please, what's innovative about the PS3?  Better graphics?  More Ram?  Isn't this the same formular OVER and OVER and OVER again?

Now the revolution lives up to it's name.  More interactivity means more fun.  Plain and simple.  Nintendo takes risks, and it knows how to make a game system.  PS2 just abuses its licenses and forces people to make their games for the PS.

PS2 kicks GC @$$, the same way that the PS3 will kick Revolution @$$ 

But it's not innovative.  It's just cramming more transistors into a smaller size. 

Admit it, it's not the PS2 you love, but the games.  If I could port all my PS2 games to GC, I'd do that.
HEY.

Mario Kart is fun.

But it's not innovative.  It's just cramming more transistors into a smaller size. 

Admit it, it's not the PS2 you love, but the games.  If I could port all my PS2 games to GC, I'd do that.

Also, I agree with everything Suijin said. I think Nintedo has always had more fun games than Playstation. Playstation just seems so plain. Too bad people didn't toss away the kiddie image they had for Nintendo Gamecube so that they can actually realize just how much funner its games were.

The games are fun for like a day or a week then its just the same old repetitive crap

The games are fun for like a day or a week then its just the same old repetitive crap

^^You've got to be kidding me. It's mostly Playstation games that become repetitive crap. How many times can you play Final Fatasy or Metal Gear Solid? How many times can you play Mario party, Super Smash Brothers melee, Mario Cart, etc. These Nintendo games never die. They're always fun, especially when you have people to play with.

To say that most Nintendo games are repetitive crap is to say that watching your favorite sport teams play is repetive crap.

^ I really don't understand what you mean.  Can you give a few examples?  I mean, Paper Mario/Mario Kart/Mario World are all remarkably different.  I can't say the same for Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9, 10, X-2.

^ Alright, but you're talking about atmosphere, not gameplay itself.  Okay, it is a bit kiddy, but just because hookers don't die or you don't light people on fire doesn't mean that it's not fun. 

If you take the time to play the games, I'm sure you'll find that the games made by Nintendo are remarkably fresh and entertaining.

^^You've got to be kidding me. It's mostly Playstation games that become repetitive crap. How many times can you play Final Fatasy or Metal Gear Solid? How many times can you play Mario party, Super Smash Brothers melee, Mario Cart, etc. These Nintendo games never die. They're always fun, especially when you have people to play with.

To say that most Nintendo games are repetitive crap is to say that watching your favorite sport teams play is repetive crap.

^^Nintendo consoles are almost at the blink of extinction. 

Unlikely considering their popularity.

They're becoming less popular year after year.