Tarumon said:
Screamapillar said:
This intrigues me. I'm looking forward to Iwata (hopefully) mentioning this at Nintendo's investors meeting in two weeks. Since Nintendo no longer announces games or game details at these things (since Nintendo Directs began), it should leave more than enough time to delve into what kind of changes are occuring within the organization structure of internal teams.
We already know Miyamoto has moved himself away from overseeing major EAD projects and instead is finishing up Pikmin 3 with his hand-picked team and then moving onto smaller games with newer staff that need supervision. I believe Takashi Tezuka is taking over as head of EAD development. He's got an impressive list of games on his resume, I look forward to E3 and seeing what kind of output the teams are making under his leadership. There'll no doubt be some subtle changes.
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Yeah, I think, or at least hope, the realignment isn't just for simple cost savings but anchors a longer term plan that affects gaming. Iwata if anything has been honest in the past, quickly took a 50% paycut, apologized, so I really don't expect him to do a PR spin on the state of Wii U. So I hope Nintendo's been working hard at putting together a respectable 2013 line up for the Wii U.
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Well, one thing's for sure though... if they didn't begin all of these supposed "Holiday 2013" games around the time of E3 2011, or at the very least Nov/Dec 2011, they won't be ready this year. I do recall though, reading some blips about NCL doing a ton of hiring back in late 2011 with a lot of people that had left other Japanese publishers. So all of that stuff from the last two years or so should be paying off now and we should see the fruits of some of this labor at E3.
I agree completey about Iwata. He is probably one of the smartest men who's ever existed in the videogame industry. He is crucial to Nintendo's survival, and he's very humble and always acknowledges mistakes of the past instead of putting PR spin on it.
