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NintendoPie on 07 July 2013
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Kresnik said:


I see people say this over and over again, but it normally gets countered with the point of "Ken Kutaragi" (I'd expand on it, but I'm sure you're aware of the story behind that).

Past successes does not equal future stability.  Nor does past success mean that someone is the right person for the job after repeated mistakes.  He pulled a blinder with the Wii & DS, but they are in the past now.

I don't have any feelings one way or another about Iwata's resignation, I just thought that was worth pointing out anyway since no-one had brought it up yet.

What are we supposed to base his career on if we can't base it off of the last generation? The Wii and DS were basically his doing, his only doing as a console creator/developer/whatever. He didn't come up with the GameBoy Advance or the GameCube, so all we have to go off of is his major success last generation. He brought Nintendo out of the toilet, so to speak.

Now, you could argue that it was his mistake that the 3DS was a completely dead console for weeks on end after it launched (to record breaking numbers, I think), but he seemingly fixed that and the 3DS is now an extremely competitive console.

I get what you're saying, Kres. But it's not like he has been a CEO long enough for us to have a log on all of his successes and failures. As of now, we have three successes and one possible failure. (That is, if that "failure" doesn't start pulling up this Holiday.)