Mr Khan said:
Who would they replace Iwata with, hmm? The "down with Iwata" crowd needs to think long and hard about that. Iwata's part of a generation of gaming executives that no longer exists, and frankly the longer he sticks around the better, because the only people you'll find to replace him are going to be pure "artist" or pure "bean-counter," either of which would be disastrous. |
Replace him with any businessman, preferably someone who has no experience in videogames and doesn't have a personality like Reggie.
He'd look at the sales charts and go, why don't we do exactly what Wii and DS did (and their best selling games) but more of it? And look at the 3DS and the stupid tablet thing and go, why don't we do much, much less of that? Nintendo's studios waste so much time, they could produce a reasonable and polished Wii Sports or NSMB entry once a year. No creativity would be fine if they kept up the pace (see: Call of Duty).
I'd trade the niche games I like but make no sense to produce (Advance Wars, 2D Metroid) for seeing Nintendo survive as an independent entity.
