He favors Microsoft and Sony selling consoles at a loss to gain market share.
He is currently favoring Sony, who are developing a super-expensive console aimed at a core market.
He is currently favoring Microsoft based on Skype and TV experiences.
Nintendo started with the Wii U selling it at a loss to gain market share. Their initial launch lineup was aimed at the core market. The Wii U launched with a video chat program pre-installed, and was later updated with TVii, which allows you to simultaneously search for content on 4 different video services plus your local service provider.
Why are Sony/Microsoft not getting the same treatment from him as Nintendo?
What if PS4/Durango come out and stall just as bad as the Wii U did? Would that make Iwata a good CEO, or would it make Hirai and Ballmer bad CEO's as well? Or would Patcher introduce some other kind of metric in order to, once again, single out Nintendo?
| spurgeonryan said: I have said this over and over again. I hate that I agree with this guy, but I do. I do not care how blind Nintendo gamers are to the WiiU situation. It is unnacceptable to not release a game for three months. No one is counting the 1 or 2 eshop games. Same drought happened with Wii and 3DS. He should have been fired. I do not care if they are saving games for PS4 or 720 launch. |
So you think a CEO should be fired after 2 dry spells after having two of the biggest consumer electronics ever released?
Iwata's Wii and DS sold more than Yamauchi's NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, and GBA combined. And made more money off of them to boot. No CEO is perfect. Even Bill Gates, head of one of the biggest electronic giants in the world, released Windows ME and Windows Vista.
