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

[mike_intellivision]

UncleScrooge said:

mike_intellivision said:

UncleScrooge said:

Nem said:

UncleScrooge said:

Attoyou said:

UncleScrooge said:

I keep seeing this, what happened exactly? 

 

 

 

Nintendo did not want to take a deal that would make made every other third-party but EA unhappy.

 

Yeah I knew that. That was not my point - it was Iwata's responsibilty to not navigate Nintendo into such a position. Surely it wasn't just EA being pure evil and setting things up just for the sake of provoking a fallout between both companies.

 

Given EA's track record for releasing roster updates as full-priced games, it might have been pure evil on its part.

Or it might have been a sudden attempt to grab control of what was thought by Nintendo to be a joint/cooperative effort. Or it might have been bungling by Nintendo. We don't konw what exactly happened, though most reports tend to point EA as the villian.

 

As for the WiiU's launch, I think one thing that Nintendo is realizing is that it now next to impossible to treat both its handheld and its console as completely separate entities, given the limited resources that it has and that developers have -- coupled with the amount of resources it takes to make good games. 

That would explain the recent decisions to change things internally in Nintendo. It also could be used to explain the WiiU "game draught" (although it has been documented that its launch quantity was closer to the higher end of the spectrum than the lower end). 

Overall, i think a lot of people -- from video game "journalists" to third-party developers don't understand Nintendo becasue it plays a different game. Thus, they seek to "destroy" what they don't understand.

 

Mike from Morgantown