Satoru Iwata implies he may resign if operating income target for next FY is not met

[Mr Khan]

Screamapillar said:
If these investors think times are rough now, they should go back to 2004. GameCube had by that time been resigned to a life of only modest success, and DS had been announced at E3, which everyone thought would be the death of Nintendo. The popular line back then was that PSP was going to kill GBA and make DS obsolete before it even had a chance to sell. Then what happened? PSP's media format completely failed to catch on, and PSP had low software support and very low market share outside of Japan.

Times may be kind of rough now, but only in comparison to 2007/2008, which was literally the largest explosion of video game sales in the history of the industry. It will probably never be repeated. The market today is still a lot bigger than it was in the PS2/ Xbox/ GCN era. People have such horrible memories. I feel bad for Iwata at times like this.

It's the curse of growth. No longer is profit or mere economic expansion enough: rates of growth have to be faster and higher than before or loldoomed.