Iwata:"should abandon old assumptions about our businesses", M&A possible, more

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cusman said:
I think Iwata focus will be more on Quality of Life Platform which is something in Health/Fitness sector and not related to living room type gaming. I think any M&A will probably take place in that space.

The Wii U is already being abandoned by Nintendo. They will not be "spending" to recover it. They will merely try to hold on to the Nintendo "loyalists" by providing 3-4 games a year for the next 2-3 years. Since the install base is small, they need to keep cost of those games down so they wont be accelerating the development schedules by staffing up either.

Just realize, Ubisoft has 1000 people working on Assassin's Creed and another 1000 on the next Assassins Creed to keep up that yearly release and that is just one of their "games". Meanwhile Nintendo has total of 5000 employees for their whole organization. I think Zelda team is around 100 people or so.

Just like they abandoned the Gamecube right? Considering Gamecube managed 45 first party titles during it's life cycle, I believe we will see an average of at least 8 first party games per year (including games to whomever they outsource or publish). Nintendo has increased their staff by 40%.  It's would be safe to assume that Nintendo is not abandoning the Wii U anytime soon and there was nowhere in the interview where Iwata implied that. A shorter lifespan than the Wii is plausible (5 years I predict).