Former Nintendo CEO gives $60 million to expand hospital

Next Generation tells us that Hiroshi Yamauchi, former longtime head of Nintendo, has given $60 million of his personal coinage to Kyoto University to expand its hospital.

Not only that, "it's the largest donation ever made to the hospital, and is also the first time an entire building capable of holding patients will be built using private money."

But, yeah... sixty million dollars... that's quite a chunk o' change, even for one of the world's richest people. (Kudos on that, Hiroshi.) This kinda charity could really take Child's Play to a whole 'nother level, don'tcha think? While it would be easy to simply wonder at such a large figure, we hope they budgeted a few games in there as well. A few DS lites could fit in there somewhere, couldn't they?

See also:

• Nintendo's buttonless DS, a poetry project
• Microsoft wants to buy Nintendo?
• Hiroshi Yamauchi's entry on Wikipedia
• Yamauchi on Forbes.com: World's riches people 2003
• Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity auction raises $82,000