| Mr Khan said: 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 |
When you are doing product development and releasing a product, and want to beat your competition, you do NOT decide you will follow market demographics and surveys, and try to poll the people on what you want. What you do is listen to what they really want, and formulate unique solutions no one else saw, so that you are first to market doing things differently, and taking charge. Nintendo did NOT get where it was by following what everyone else did. When it followed the whole Gamecube mentality, which is them doing catch up, it ended up failing in the market. Only by really addressing the wants ot consumers, and entertaining and doing exactly what they discussed at the press conference, do they show leadership, and get the others to follow. And you need to guees right and have luck. Nintendo shows leadership totally missing from Microsoft and Sony at this point. Sony is shoving 3D down the throats of everyone, with better graphics and so on, with Vita (it is cool) merely being touch taken to another level. And Microsoft? Sheesh, what is Kinect but merely motion control done to an even more extreme level.
As for a Japanese Kotick, if they took over Nintendo, they would try to find a way to release a bunch of overpriced expansion packs for Zelda, and also end up ramrodding Wii Music down the throats of everyone, trying to kill off the music industry with it.
