"I have a Wii and I'm pretty hardcore and I would love to be playing more cool Wii games but because everyone's retreating it's becoming a self-fulfilling prophesy."
That is exactly whats happening. Again, does anybody actually realise the sales numbers for MWR or are devs not paying attention?
"Also if you put that kind of violence in the game, that's all people talk about. I want people to talk about the sword."
He is spot on about this. It happened to Manhunt 2, it would have happened to this.
Ofcourse getting a T rating was prob. the other integral factor, but he won't mention that.
“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.
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