Funniest thing here is how the OP acts as though NOA and NOE are meant to fill any purpose other than marketing Nintendo's products in those regions. Of course they're both extensions of the Japanese HQ. Of course all of the decisions are made in Japan. Somebody here doesn't understand the hierarchy of the company.
Things like NOA trying to tell Nintendo what games to fund or not to fund, or trying to buy third-party support, or supposedly having any authority over what project Retro Studios is working on, these are hilarious. Reggie is neither a hardware nor software designer. He probably doesn't know a damn thing about making video games. He is in charge of marketing them and localizing them, and that's all, and that's how it's meant to be, because that's what he's qualified to do.
As for Miyamoto not having any influence over the development of Pikmin 3, that's absurd. The man's position at Nintendo gives him influence over literally every game in development there. He had a hand in Luigi's Mansion 2, for crying out loud, and that was made in Canada by a team not technically even part of Nintendo. His job is to oversee all Nintendo software development.
Oh yeah, and Nintendo's first-party developers signed a petition complaining that the Wii U was underpowered... after they had been developing for the Wii for six years? HAHAHA. Really.
