Iwata is a busy man: Had to deal with 700 issues due Wii popularity

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Joelcool7 said:

I bet Nintendo had alot of problems!

With their online servers they probubly didn't expect to get so much online activity. They would have been hard pressed to keep Nintendo's online network running despite the high traffic. Virtual Console etc...etc... would have definatly put Nintendo in a very stressful position.

Manufacturing also would have been a difficult thing. Nintendo went from manufacturing a mild successful system like the GameCube which only numbered in the 20-million margin to Wii which broke GameCube's record in a matter of what a year. This combined with the Nintendo DS's rising success would have forced Nintendo to expand at a very high rate of speed to meet demand.

Then software manufacturing. With all those millions of hardware units the demand for software way out stripped the demand of the GameCube, GBA. Nintendo needed to expand its software manufacturing big time.

However I do not buy the fact that Nintendo software developers were so busy producing follow up titles to popular IP's that they were unable to give us new content. Seriously I'd say half of the successful titles if not more were from new IP. Look at WiiMusic, WiiFit , WiiSports, WiiPlay. Then you have new titles coming like those in support of vitality sensor.

Nintendo is just giving excuses when it comes to software development I think. Nintendo could have given us a new StarFox game or a new Donkey Kong game, instead they gave us new IP which they are now saying they didn't have time to give us. How many more new IP can Nintendo expect to produce?

How many more franchises they can come up with ? 

Its Nintendo they live of video game , they can come up with many new IPs that they are able to do ... i mean in the last decade nintendo had come up with too few new IPs -Ninetndogs, - Brain Games,- Wii series ,-Pikmin and its pretty much it sure there is Blue Ocean and a like ,but i dont think this other smaller games will become a real franchise , but look now in one year Nintendo will bring .

 

-Last Story

-Xenoblade 

-Sling Smasher (I dont know if it will become a franchise or not... but well its coming)

-That is what we all ready know about , i really can feel a change in nintendo workflow this year , hope it brings more great series , that we all will fall in love with it ...