But these are the same people that helped make an insane amount of money with Wii and DS. 3DS is now dominating and WiiU is doing ok, Nintendo is in a transtional period, all companies have one at some stage or another.
The 3DS price cut is one of the many reasons I respect Iwata. It was a very tough call that could shook confidence in him, the product and the company, and cost Nintendo 100's of millions. But it was the right call. They exploited their headstart on Vita to develope a massive user-base advantage. It needed to be done. Now they have a near-monopoly. It was one of his best moves, going along with keeping wii production costs so low, the re-design of all products into the apple-esque look they have today, the promotion of wii sports, the relatively high price of wii for years, the emphasis on the profit-printing NSMB series... so many smart money decisions from Nintendo under Iwata.
As a money maker i havent ever seen Nintendo in a better shape
| KungKras said: The ones that need to be fired are Aonuma and Sakamoto. Like now. |
Ironically (and from a pure business perspective, mind) Sakamoto does great things if you keep him away from Metroid. Tomodachi Collection and its Japanese success was pretty much all him. Game and Wario is likely his baby as well, and that could do good things on Wii U (not great, but good)
Aonuma just needs to be given tighter deadlines and less creative freedom, as we know the best art is made with the right degree of adversity, and he has had a bit too much creative freedom of late.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
Under Iwata and Reggie the company came up with the Wii and DS. After those two humungous money makers I doubt that either of them will be fired soon. They don't need to be.
As a money maker i havent ever seen Nintendo in a better shape
Compared to the rest of Japan's electronics industry, Nintendo looks positively ship-shape. I wouldn't argue that they couldn't do better, but the headwinds they're facing are threatening to destroy Sharp, Panasonic and Sony. Companies which can weather an economic storm tend to emerge out the other side stronger than before.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
*Image indefinitely borrowed from BrainBoxLtd without his consent.
| Wander_ said: Fire Shigeru Miyamoto hes holding Nintendo back with his kid friendly crap. And just make him a game director not in charge of what goes and what doesn't. |
He is retiring from Nintendo this year if I'm not wrong.
| TheLastStarFighter said: I have bought a significant amount of Nintendo stock. I can say that a big reason I purchased was because of the leadership of Iwata and Myamoto. Nintendo's software has been other-worldly successful and Iwata has lead a complete revival of the Nintendo brand. 3DS is trending ahead of its predecessor and that will likely continue as DS dies of in the US. WiiU just launched to around 80% of the sales of Wii despite selling in a very different environment and at a significantly higher pricepoint. As a shareholder I'm very pleased. The philosophy of not going all out to push tech boundries is very wise. The low price and touchscreen interface should appeal to a mass-market audience. People may want a better-looking NSMBU, but it was probably affordable to produce and should generate buckets of profits. And as far as 3rd party support goes as a gamer I want it but if it doesn't come I'll just buy a PS4 or Nextbox depending on which seems better. But as a shareholder I don't really care as long as the systems still sell. 3rd party is great, but if you have a 1st part dominated system you make way more profits since you make more money off 1st party. I only want to see more 3rd party support in that it will help drive sales, especially late-life sales...but by then I will have probably sold my stock anyway. |
At what price point did you buy your NTDOY shares? They were at 52 week low last time I checked... very bad stock to own. They don't even pay dividends as well as they used to back when the Wii had its super success 2006-2008
| Vinniegambini said:
What was your entry point? Mine was 14.40$ :( |
Mine was 12.70 so I am not too worried right now, 2013 earning report be interesting.
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