forethought14 said:
Please Understand? I don't think "firing Iwata" will solve anything really, what they really need is a realization to...well...reality. Iwata literally needs to please understand his situation and how his current order is creating these losses and missed forecasts. He may have caused the company's only operating losses since entering the console market, but he was also the man who created the most successful environment for Nintendo ever (Wii and DS). I don't think he'll be going down anytime soon, as much as some people want him to. |
It's probably not just Iwata, Miyamoto and some of the other older senior members at Nintendo are probably pulling the strings in a collective, ignorant group think.
It's mind blowing for example that Nintendo wants to be in the home console business, yet today (since it's not 1995 anymore), 90% of the console business is now in North America and Europe, yet Nintendo has reduced their Western development to basically having three Western collaborators (Next Level, Retro, and Monster Games) ... and even those three are kept on a tight leash and only get to work on old Japanese based character properties (yeah dat Retro new epic franchise ... I love DKC, but what a joke all that anticipation was).
They have virtually no indepedant Western developer support yet they think they can sell home consoles here based on controller gimmicks. Rude awakening time -- that trick worked once, it wasn't going to work twice. People are not stupid, they can see you're trying to sell a redressed XBox 360 type machine with a bloated controller for $350 for the same old 4-5 "major" franchises with no exciting third party support behind them.
