EA continues to defecate on Nintendo

[Mnementh]

TheJimbo1234 said:

Mnementh said:

Mazty said:
CEO's are human. That doesn't mean they let emotion control their buisness actions. If you were to work in a large company this becomes very obvious very quickly. It irritates me how people dumb down buisness at such a high level and talk about "bad feeling". This mindset couldn't be further from reality and unfortunatly just makes a lot of gamers seem ill-informed as to how buisness works.

CEOs can go emotional in their decisions all they want, as long as the company is in good shape.

 

No, they won't be. CEO's have to work by the yearly plan which is horribly scrutinised by share holders. Either you say why you will make money or you get fired, and emotions don't make you money....

 

LOL, sure, if a company makes losses or winnings are reducing, the share holders will give the CEO a hard time or fire him. That did I say before. But they don't care about minor losses or missed advantages usually. Nintendo get's criticized for many actions (and I agree in many cases). Do you think the CEOs of other companies have to work always rational, but Iwata gets away with emotional decisions? No, they all mix emotions in, they all make errors. It is fine, as long the company makes overall winnings.

EA could have made massively more winnings, if they had dropped some minor game and instead had developed something like Just Dance/Zumba for Wii. But Gibeau and Riccitello decided, that it was not worth to develop for Wii. Clearly a decision made with more emotion than ratio, as clearly games could sell on Wii, if you made it right. And I can't believe one second, that EA was unable to develop for this. But it is OK for the shareholders, as long as yearly franchises like FIFA make millions.