| Soundwave said: It's fine that they're taking pay reductions, but really it doesn't help their business. They need to LEAD the company, not do the "please understand" schtick over and over again. This is a position they didn't have to be in, they got themselves into this situation entirely because of poor decision making on their part. |
If you read what Iwata and Miyamoto said it is pretty clear to me that they get what went wrong. Miyamoto blamed the Wii U's failure on a lack of uniqueness within the games, and he is absolutly right. Wind Waker HD (remake), NSMBU (rehash), Wii Party U (very similar to the 1st), Pikmin 3 (modern update, obviously similar to Pikmin 1,2), SM3DW (a sequel to a 3DS, a very good one, but still a direct sequel to 3D Land). I am very interested to see what gets made moving forward, because to me it sounds like Miyamoto understands that Nintendo needs to freshen things up a bit. Iwata blamed low U.S. 3DS sales due to a lack of games, which is true. Animal Crossing,Fire Emblem,Zelda,Pokemon,Luigi's Mansion, DKCR port, and Dream Team. That was what we got last year, and quite frankly Fire Emblem, a Donkey Kong port, and Mario and Luigi are not console sellers. They put out 4 titles all year that had the potential to move consoles and in return saw good, but less then expected sales. If they had even one more system seller game, it would have been just fine.
