| thornstrom said:
Yes, Iwata has demonstrated a remarkable ability to read the market with the Wii and DS, but NOT with the GameCube. Maybe he's getting better at it :) |
Darc Requiem already said most of what I was going to say (Gamecube was Yamauchi, not Iwata. The DS was Iwata's first individual brain child). I would add, however, that the we've been getting snippets telling us that the Gamecube was, in many ways, a laboratory for the Wii (by design).
If the items I'm referring to aren't simply revisionist history, it appears that Nintendo was already considering going in an entirely new direction even before they launched the Gamecube, with that system being part testing-ground, part stopgag. Mind you, it was still a test/stopgag that performed much more weakly than Nintendo had thought it would, but the idea that gaming needed to change was already planted.
I'm not sure how interested you are in my completing this mini-lecture, or if I should just cut this off here and now, so I'll stop. Let me know if you want me to continue.
