Grampy said:
You are very correct. If they blow it they can't make it up in another division. I have to think doing something as radical as the Wii had a bit of a bet-the-farm element to it. And maybe that was a good thing. |
Well there was the DS before it, but sure they seem like the least conservative business in the history of big business. That's what makes so damn interesting.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
