Soundwave said:
justinian said:
Mr Khan said:
It's largely because it takes a long time to build up capacity at Nintendo if you don't want to go around just running buyouts (as that's a total crapshoot as to whether the buyout will pay off). Nintendo's key weakness is in *capacity*, which they are addressing, but doing so purely internally takes a while. It's only next year that their new Kyoto building will roll around.
Changes for the future, meanwhile, do not necessitate changes in management. This is, basically, the same crew that brought us the Wii and the DS. Surely they can learn lessons without people having to be fired (which, again, wouldn't really change anything).
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People change. Their ideas and motivation change. It doesn't matter what they did in the past, it's about the here and now. Maybe they were right for that time.
I like Iwata as he seems a nice person - I mean, how may CEOs will take a pay cut so people get to keep their jobs - but business is like war and right now this general is losing his men fast.
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The landscape in elecontrics entertainment 6-7 years ago when Nintendo was pioneering the blue ocean strategy was radically different too. There was no iPhone or any real entertainment-centric smartphones. There were mainstream tablets. Sony/MS were completely focused on chasing the hardcore gamer.
Nintendo had a wide open avenue for success by targeting more casuals with a different approach.
Things are just far more difficult today.
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Thank you. You have nicely explained what I meant by "they were right for the time". Iwata reminds me of the French generals in 1940. Well train and qualified for warfare up to that point, but the Germans had taken a leap into "nextgen" warfare.
Sony pretty much rebranded the PS3 when that new guy came in with fresh ideas and saved it from what was looking like sure disaster.
