Gordon Brewer visits Japan, to gauge the state of the Japanese software industry. With Nintendo having already demonstrated that a Japanese corporation can quickly dominate the US video games software market, should the big American business software developers be worried?
Gordon speaks with Charles Elliot of Goldman Sachs, Nintendo's resident design genius Shigeru Miyamoto, Kazuhiko "Kay" Nishi of ASCII, author Thomas Zengage, Bill Totten of Ashisuto and Ken Sakamura - the Tokyo University Professor behind Japan's ambitious TRON project.
This clip is from The Money Programme, originally broadcast 25 March, 1990.
- 00:00 Japan's relationship with computers
- 01:00 Software versus hardware
- 01:17 Nintendo Famicom
- 02:10 Charles Elliot on Nintendo's success
- 03:03 Inside Nintendo
- 03:24 Shigeru Miyamoto at work
- 04:34 Nintendo engineers at work
- 05:03 The trouble with business software in Japan
- 05:51 "Kay" Nishi - manufacturing versus designing
- 06:57 TRON Project computer controlled smart house
- 07:53 Ken Sakamura on Japanese language in computers
- 08:23 Corporations adopting TRON-based computers
- 08:53 Thomas Zengage on changing global software market
- 09:26 Japanese developed software packages
- 10:05 Bill Totten on American complacency
- 10:54 Nintendo's non-game software for Famicom
- 11:36 Will America lose its foreign software market?
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