It is time for Shigeru Miyamoto to retire (Malstrom)

[saicho]

Onyxmeth said:

liquidninja said:

theRepublic said:
Malstrom needs to learn to read. Nowhere was he arrogant. Nowhere did Miyamoto blame consumers. He wants to learn from the mistakes in that game to make a better game.

Malstrom needs to stop blogging so much and work on those articles he claims are coming. He has been making factual errors and now this. He needs to evaluate what he is doing, because lately he seems to think that everything he says is the gospel truth.

How? What did he write that gave you that impression? This has to be at least the fifth time I've seen someone on here express that impression of him.

What I think is going on is that some Nintendo fans have been been treating everything he says as the gospel truth and now that he's expressing unfavorable opinions and analysis of Nintendo's business it's no longer to Nintendo fan's advantage to treat his material that way. Now he's a "old school, nostalgic, random, blogger, who, doesn't know anything about games". Well, he is the same guy who was rooting for Nintendo back when it looked like they were starting a revolution. His only mistake was thinking that Nintendo was serious about it.

I noticed that also. I haven't seen Malstrom change one bit. He's still up the ass about disruption and Blue Ocean strategy, and he's as black and white as ever in what is right and wrong. I really think many people were only happy that he was in Nintendo's corner and weren't really paying attention to him. I must admit I thought he was quite the fanboy for a while and figured he was always creating things to place Nintendo into a good light. Obviously that's not the case.

I don't agree with Miyamoto retiring, but he brings up some good points, and frankly this is exactly what all of his pro-Nintendo shit sounded like also. It was cocky and brash and Nintendo fans supported it and ate it up until he turned on them.

Remember when this guy was praised for taking the unfavorable position and predicting success for the Wii when everyone else said it would fail? He based that on the same principles and lessons that is now telling him that Nintendo is doing something wrong. Maybe he's right or maybe he's wrong, but for those of you that listened to him before, why shut him out now? Why not actually pay attention to what he says? He is after all the one analyst that got it right.

 

I first knew about Malstrom through this site and the first article I read was great. I bookmarked the site. Then the next 4 articles I read were extremely biased. I deleted my bookmark and stop reading his articles. Therefore, I didn't read his whole article in the OP.

However. I'm wondering how was Miyamoto arragant based on what theRepublic quoted. I think twisting somenoe else's words to prove a point is arragant.

Also, there are a few posts in this thread stating Miyamoto always creates new gameplay with old IPs (Mario, Zelda, etc). My question is at least it's new gameplay. Why does it matter if it's new IP or old IP? Also, Miyamoto does create great new IPs after SNES in addition to the Mario/Zelda franchises. We got Waverace 64 and Animal Forest on N64, Pikmin on Gamecube, Nintendog on DS, and Wii Sports/Wii Fit on Wii.