Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. Introduction. Chapter 1: Leave Luck to Heaven. Chapter 2: The Kid. Chapter 3: Character Issues. Chapter 4: The Console Wars. Chapter 5: The Sony Shock. Chapter 6: Manifest DS-Tiny. Chapter 7: The Third Way. Chapter 8: Revolution in the Streets. Chapter 9: Wiining the Day. Chapter 10: Wealth and Legacy. Chapter 11: Bouts of Ennu-Wii. Chapter 12: 3D and the Next Small Thing. Epilogue. Index.

About the Author

Daniel Sloan was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1963. He studied English literature at the University of Virginia and received a master's degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 1991. He has worked in financial journalism for Reuters for more than 15 years, and his text and video reports have appeared in numerous global publications as well as in programs from international broadcasters, including CNN, CNBC, BBC, and CCTV. He is a frequent commentator for a variety of domestic broadcasters, a university lecturer, and a former president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. He and his family live in Chiba Prefecture outside Tokyo.

Reviews

'...rarely told story of the comeback kids of Kyoto...thorough and well researched'. (Financial Times, January 2011). ' Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card firm...a story wonderfully detailed in the new book Playing to Wiin.' (City AM, February 2011). ' Sloan tells the story well, offering detail and insight. As comebacks go, this is a story worth retelling. ' (Director, March 2011).