福布斯：任天堂前董事長榮登日本首富

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.

Nintendo's Wii, with its motion-sensing controller and quirky games that attract casual users, has far outsold rival game machines such as Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 since its launch in 2006.

Shares of Kyoto-based Nintendo have more than tripled in the past two years, boosting the value of the company to around $79 billion, and the fortune of Yamauchi, who owns 10 percent.

Mori, whose Mori Trust is one of the Tokyo's biggest landlords fell to second spot with a net worth of $7.7 billion, the magazine said.

Kunio Busujima, the 83-year-old founder of pachinko gambling machine maker Sankyo Co Ltd, was third with a net worth of $5.4 billion, Forbes said.

A new arrival to Forbes' Japan 40 Richest List is a 32-year-old Kenji Kasahara, who created social networking site Mixi, Forbes said.

Forbes said its rich lists calculations were based on public share prices and its own estimates of privately held wealth.

《福布斯》雜誌日前公佈了日本年度富豪榜，由於“任天堂”Wii遊戲機的熱銷，“任天堂”前任董事長山內溥以78億美元的身價成爲日本首富。

據《福布斯》介紹，今年80歲的山內溥的個人淨資產在過去一年中暴漲30億美元，超過去年的首富、地產大亨森章，從去年的第三位一躍成爲今年的冠軍。

任天堂Wii遊戲機以其獨有的動作感應控制器以及有趣多變的遊戲吸引了大批普通用戶，自2006年推出至今，它的銷量已遠遠超過其競爭對手索尼的PS3和微軟的Xbox 360。

“任天堂”公司總部位於京都，該公司股價在過去兩年中漲了兩倍多，其總市值達到約79億美元，而擁有10%股份的山內溥的個人資產也隨之暴漲。

地產大亨森章今年的排名下滑至第二位，他的個人淨資產爲77億美元。森章的“森章信託”公司是東京房地產業的幾大巨頭之一。

“柏青哥”賭博機制造商三協公司的創始人、83歲的杜島邦夫以54億美元的身價名列第三。

日本社交網站Mixi的創始人、32歲的笠原健司今年首次登上《福布斯》日本40大富豪榜。

據介紹，該富豪榜是《福布斯》雜誌根據各企業的股價及其對各富豪個人總資產的估算編撰而成的。