GamingChartzFTW on 19 February 2009
| Demotruk said: GamingChartz, will you at least concede the point that it's not just about profitability, but it's about how successful the console should aim to be, as illustrated by Iwata's comments? If Wii sold only as well as gamecube, it probably still would have been profitable, and Nintendo would be afloat today just as at the end of the last generation. |
It's called company rhetorics. It often has no basis in reality. Unfortunately we gamers are obsessed with statements like that. Trust me. That is not how directors communicate in the boardroom. Nintendo is a very conservative company. They know how to manage risk. We should all learn how to separate media outbursts aimed at the gaming press from the more realistic analyzes and calculations they do behind the scenes (Gunpei Yokoi's Virtual Boy semented Nintendo's efforts). They're not naive. However they have an obligation in building up high expectations among the press and their core fanbase.
Expectations expectations.
