Nintendo/Iwata's Bias Against The West

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Fantastic post Op. I was just about to strike up a topic about this, but you did it way better than I could have. Kudos.

I've seen some people in this thread say that by the time Nintendo sold Rare, Rare was already dead. I don't buy that at all. There was still a LOAD of talent at that studio when they were sold. The Viva Pinata series is proof of that. Not to mention the sheer value of all their IP's. Banjo and Conker would be in smash, etc.

Also, the gimping of Retro is bizarre. They should have been expanded, and trained. The team that made Metroid Prime was just pure talent. They should have given every team at Retro the same treatment instead of gimping them half to death.

The N64 sold by far the most in North America. It had lots of great western developed games, and primed it's successor to dominate in the west. Then Iwata killed the west. Really baffling. Seems honestly like the Japanese Nintendo developers are disdainful towards the west. Sakamoto discounting the Prime games(then making the shittiest metroid game of all time), Sakurai not acknowledging the prime games in smash, and ignoring western character requests, etc.

Iwata needs to suck up his pride and acknowledge the fact that Japan is not the world.