Iwata: Wii U game delays, "projects were understaffed"

[Roma]

Soleron said:

Roma said:

game development does not always end up the way people plan as things come up all the time like new ideas or problems that need to be solved

You plan for that as a business though. You play 'what if' and if there's a risk your brand new console might not have any games for a year, you delay the console, reduce the game scope, or intervene sooner. If Iwata didn't realise the risk existed he's incompetent.

Imagine if EA accidentally didn't have any games for a year. You think shareholders would be sympathetic that sometimes "things come up"?

of course he would have considered all of what you mention but even then things might not work the way they are planned.

it is better to delay than rush games like some developers do and in the process release games with less quality. Nintendo doing so will risk loosing fans that stick with them for the sake of their franchises.

Nintendo planned to complete the games they where going to release in the launch window and have the 3rd party games and then things went wrong. If they keep on thinking "what ifs" then things will never take any form. they also had to release the console because they didn't have anything for the Wii

also with new games today it takes time to create something that is different than what you get

Hard for EA not to have games when they can just copy and past their sports games, add a couple of new things to it and then they are done

it's easy to sit and complain without knowing what is going on