Mr Khan said:
DerNebel said:
Aside from the whole "LOL Pachter is an Idiot"-circlejerk, why do you think Iwata isn't fired yet? Or to ask the question differently, why do you think Iwata is still the right CEO for Nintendo?
Because he was CEO during the Wii and DS days? Past glory should never be a reason to keep someone a CEO of a multibillion dollar company.
Because he turned the 3DS around? Nintendo made the thing cheaper and released its standard suite of games for it plus more or less the same type of third party games the DS had as well, the only ingenious thing was securing MH4 exclusively on it. There was literally nothing about that that any other CEO couldn't have figured out as well.
Now look at the Wii U, Nintendo is trying the exact same tactic as with the 3DS (minus third party game) and the success is moderate, to put it mildly. Nintendo the way it is right now has no idea how to fix the Wii U, because they simple don't seem to be able to think out of the box. If Iwata and the rest of the high ups at Nintendo aren't able to do that and if the stockholders of Nintendo want the Wii U to be something else than just a second GC, than they need to get some new people in charge.
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A company can't turn on a dime, you know. Acting like Nintendo can just "change everything" at the drop of a hat, if only they had better leadership, is really not the case.
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I wasn't implying that the change would be immediate anywhere. Fact is Nintendo isn't changing anything at all, they're doing what they've been doing for years now, hoping it will work. And it is quite apparently not working with the Wii U, but still there is nothing indicating that Nintendo is trying a different approach, instead it's the same old franchises over and over again, sure those games are great, but there is only a certain amount of people that will buy a console for the new Mario, MK, Smash and Zelda.
