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Should Satoru Iwata step down?

Yes 66 31.28%
 
No 145 68.72%
 
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Roma on 06 July 2013
Miguel_Zorro said:
Roma said:
I'm so sick of this "Should Iwata step down?" no he should not as if it wasn't for him they would not have had the successful Wii and DS or are they forgotten already?


Iwata will never be taken completely seriously.  He took over for a guy (Yamauchi) who was president for over 50 years and who got Nintendo into the toy and gaming business in the first place.  How do you compete with that?

Miyamoto is the most valuable person at Nintendo today.

he managed to sell 250 million units in one generation. if you ask me people just want him out as they fear what he might do this gen with the 3DS doing so well after it almost went the way of the vita. who knows what he has up his sleeve. 



    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(

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Lonely_Dolphin on 06 July 2013
Kasz216 said:

Here is the thing....

Early adopters always get ripped off.

Always, always, always.

Whether they realize it or not.

 

Well except argueably in situations like the PS3 where features like BC get ripped out... but such things are very rare.



This exactly! Buy a console early, and you miss out on price drops, bundles, and remodels. You may also have to deal with game droughts.

Nem on 06 July 2013

I dont think you learned your lesson. Its generally a bad idea to buy systems at launch. Price cuts, failure rates and software droughts always happen during year one on every console.



IIIIITHE1IIIII on 06 July 2013

No, Iwata should not step down.


He should, however, step it up.



Busted on 06 July 2013
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
No, Iwata should not step down.


He should, however, step it up.

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Lonely_Dolphin on 06 July 2013
pezus said:
Einsam_Delphin said:
Kasz216 said:

Here is the thing....

Early adopters always get ripped off.

Always, always, always.

Whether they realize it or not.

 

Well except argueably in situations like the PS3 where features like BC get ripped out... but such things are very rare.


This exactly! Buy a console early, and you miss out on price drops, bundles, and remodels. You may also have to deal with game droughts.

You also get more years of gaming on a next-gen console . 



Not necessarily. If you always wait the same amount of time after a console releases, then you'll still have the same amount of time a person always buying on day 1 would have. Besides, there's no rule saying you have to stop playing your current console when a new one comes out, so how much time you have with your console is entirely up to you.

VGPolyglot on 06 July 2013

I don't think that he should step down.



novasonic on 07 July 2013
pezus said:
novasonic said:
It's going to be the exact same situation with the PS4 and X1, just like every other console ever. There won't be more than 5 games worthy of owning the console for for at least the first year.

I can already name more than 5 PS4 games that would make it worth owning to me

Sure there's a bunch of cool looking games for PS4 already. The WiiU has a bunch too. But I don't see any PS4 games that I neeeeed to get a PS4 for yet. The first game I'll find myself needing to buy a WiiU for is Pikmin 3. It takes at least a year of building an install base before developers really take a console seriously. Or at least before they'll start making the kinds of games I want.




8th gen predictions. (made early 2014)
PS4: 60-65m
WiiU: 30-35m
X1: 30-35m
3DS: 80-85m
PSV: 15-20m

curl-6 on 07 July 2013

Buying any console at launch is NEVER a good idea.



CarcharodonKraz on 07 July 2013

if it weren't for iwata i feel there wouldn't have an affordable new console on the market, so i'd have to say keep him. I feel alot of people out there don't understand how many gamers there (like me) who can't afford a 400$ system. I think i'll get a ps3 someday, but i'll have a wii-u long before that. That being said, i do feel like iwata underestimated leading nintendo in the the hd era, and the game drought is what kept me from buying a wii-u early on.