axt113 said:
Mr Khan said:
This one i've seen from you before too, and you're really not going to get anyone better. Anyone younger is going to be from "the industry," and naturally be a worse fit because they'll either be young developers with all the bad ideas that come with young developers, or they'll be businessmen who will employ shortsighted moneymaking strategies and dilute the Nintendo we know and love into just another industry player.
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Actually buisiness people would probably be the best choice, since they are the ones who actually are less concerned about doing what they want, and actually doing what consumers want, because it will net them the most profit and marketshare, Miyamoto and the restaren't interested in making 2D mario or a Zelda that isnt puzzle filled (heck even the ninty rep said its all about puzzles in SS, *barf*), or sidescrolling Metroid with no weepy Samus, but probably the business people at Nintendo see that the current games aren't doing massive sales and aren't capturing large marketshare, these are the people who are more likely to want to see the games that the market wants, that will sell more. The problem isn't the business side, its the developers who think they are so imaginative and creative.
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To be a great success in the tech industry you need leadership with vision, and vision only seems to come from the actual product-designers (in this case, the developers), but even then only from the developers who really pioneered the industry in the first place. You see it in Apple with Steve Jobs. In this industry, you also see what happens when the real, hard numbers business-types take over. You get Activision, monster profits, and brand-names ground into the dirt like fine powder, and a company on the whole with a bland and toothless image.
Now if Nintendo could find the *right* businessperson, who could gently correct the company's problems without radically reorienting, then we'd have something, but likely they would find Japanese Kotick
