| RolStoppable said:
We don't know how much the Wii U will cost at this point, neither do we know its launch titles and a lot of other things. We judge Nintendo based on their track record. For three fiscal years in a row they have failed to meet their sales projections. Even worse, they also managed to miss their revised projections many times. A company that is so bad at predicting their own business cannot be said to know what they are doing. It actually reeks of incompetence and mismanagement, especially when you consider that they were coming off of a record year before everything collapsed around them. Iwata's statements in the OP do not suggest that Nintendo has a concrete idea of what went wrong, so they arrive at the wrong conclusions which means that it's likely that they will be wrong again. Although admittedly, they put their 3DS projection at only 18.5m for this fiscal year and ironically they might exceed it, because they had a habit of underestimating the capabilities of the right games. When they used to pump out DS and Wii games, they had to revise their forecasts too, but up. |
I don't know what to say.
You caught me. So what then, how was Nintendo to avoid falling into that predicament? What are you suggesting at this point?
Why stir the pot when the stew is 3 years old...
What I'm trying to praise is a strategy that takes into account the failings of the 3DS software starvation and promises an evergreen launch lineup. What is the issue with all this?
You're judging the strategy based on track record, it's no wonder we can't agree. I'm judging it off of what it is, despite the past.
So who is right, the one who judges based on the past, or the one who judges at face value?
(You only use track record when you don't have a strategy to analyse and you have to do guesswork. At this point, almost all the elements are in play, all we have to do is wait. Judging the strategy at face value, now that we have and know it, is the way to go. Using track record is now obsolete in the debate, we now know where they are going, we no longer need to guess)
