kitler53 on 04 April 2013
| Mr Khan said: Aggressive western investment should come as a plank of more aggressive investment period. The last acquisition Nintendo made was NDCube back in 2011 or so, and before that, Monolith Soft (2006). Compared to Sony and Microsoft's veritable stream of infant studios all over the generation, it's rather pathetic (especially since Nintendo had the money to make those nonexistent studios. The Sony and MS gaming divisions... less so). IMO, the lack of internal capacity, and apparent lack of desire to build internal capacity, is Nintendo's key flaw, the point from which most of the other things that are (legitimately!) wrong with the company come from. |
i like this post a lot, especially bold. i think this is what made me most frustrated with nintendo last gen. when i had a gamecube and things were sometimes disappointing it was easy to forgive nintendo. at the time they were just getting by, they did what they had to. but in the hayday of the wii/ds when they were making billion+ profits a year the lack of investment, the lack of growth, the lack of doing anything to improve made the obvious flaws in software capacity was just.. infuriating.
