Soleron said:
@Aielyn
I can't imagine how long it took you to write all that It's not worth it . Malstrom is still right on some things (mostly, he's the only one that predicted Nintendo's /fall/ post-2009, and that 3DS would not take off from launch.) But he is deliberately provocative and discards anything that doesn't fit the narrative he wishes to form. If you read Malstrom, just take his ideas into consideration but form your own idea of what Nintendo should do.
And of course he won't stop blogging. He's threatened to leave on three seperate occasions I can think of.
Whether he's right or wrong, Nintendo clearly are disconnected from the market now. They do what their developers want, and whenther something goes right or wrong they have no idea why. Their rationale for Wii U, for 3D Mario, for 2D Mario, for Metroid is all completely wrong. Any company that came to the market with a Wii like philosophy would destroy Nintendo, it's just that MS and Sony have even fewer ideas about expanding the market.
Ultimately Nintendo's purest test will be Wii U sales. If it flops Iwata is fired. If it does not, even Malstrom will be forced to reconsider.
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That's about as succinct a summary as anyone's ever going to make.
