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Figgycal on 17 January 2014
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DerNebel said:
osed125 said:

I think you missed the point. Never said that Iwata is better than Kaz because Kaz is worse, that was not the point. Is just a very simple example of what a good strategy and good business planing is vs. something that is not. Could have changed that with different products from different companies.

@bold, how can you be so sure about that. Another CEO would have cut his own salary? secure MH 4? you don't know and I don't know either, and just simple saying "common sense" isn't something you can say when talking about business, because even if something is "obvious"  it doesn't mean you can do said thing at the moment or ever. 

What I said above answers your question, depending on your resources, you might be able to something or not. What is more important for your business? What your shareholders want? etc. Would Iwata be able to turn the Vita around? maybe, maybe not, impossible to say. 

My argument is very clear, Iwata made some very good decisions with the 3DS, and, yes, he was the reason the 3DS made a comeback. Another person could have done it? I don't know and neither do you.

And I'm sticking with what I said. Every CEO could have in Nintendos position turned the 3DS around, Iwata did not make any incredible out of the box decisions that no other CEO could have come up with. He cut his salary, so? That was a purely symbolic act, it didn't do anything for the 3DS or are you going to tell my that Nintendo could only cut the 3DS price because they didn't have to pay that humongous part of Iwatas salary anymore that he cut?

Cutting the price of your console and getting games that will sell on it out is the most basic of the basic, that is all Iwata did and that's why I think he doesn't need to be commended for the 3DS turnaround. Now if he turns around the Wii U then I'll happily congratulate him for that, cause that problem is a whole lot bigger than the 3DS's ever was.

Especially considering how much they overpriced the 3DS to begin with.