superhippy420 said:
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.
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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.
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He's been saying the same excuses for 5 years. Please understand, we need to release more games, I will focus on ensuring there are no post launch droughts (lol), we need to work with third parties, we won't repeat the mistakes of the 3DS with Wii U, etc. etc. etc. Yet there's very little in the way of tangiable action.
Sure Nintendo saves a few bucks from them taking a paycut, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the overall damage done to the brand the last several years.
They probably are going to waste much of the 3DS era without making any profit at all. They basically blew Pokemon X/Y's big year by somehow managing to post a loss the same year.
I realize he gets a lot of rope, really because of his likable personality, but the results have been terrible. Yamauchi never posted a loss *once*, I Iwata has done so three straight years, and honestly I think they are headed to year 4 of losses. Lower 3DS sales next year and they still probably have to drop the Wii U price again and no Pokemon X/Y type release.
Nintendo doesn't need employee paycuts. They need solutions to get them out of this mess that are properly executed.
