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Mr Khan said:
Dunban67 said:
Good thing Iwata has a sense or urgency per his quote below:

"Nintendo will try to achieve in the next 10 years is a platform business that improves people’s QOL in enjoyable ways.”

10 years may as well be forever in business terms for a publicly traded company (or most any company)

It is but it isn't. R&D and implementation take a long time, which is why the people saying "just kill the Wii U already" have no idea what they're talking about. Kill the Wii U today, this year, or even 2015 probably and they'd have NOTHING on the market, because you can't run a turnaround that fast, at least in terms of a physical product.


I agree w you about it taking time and re not being able to replace the WiI U instantly-  I m sure it takes several years to develop a console - probably takes most of a generation to develop a console- 

But- my comment re Iwata's "ten yeas to achieve...." statement re the QOL platform is that it is completely open ended.  His statement could mean just about anything just as anything could happen over that ten year period-  He could mean the platform will exist and be ready for marklet in ten years, or it will be profitable in 10 years, or anything in between, etc.   When you combine the open ended, non commital nature of his sttement with the ten year time frame he gives, his statemtn does not add up to much of anything-  other than it is somehting they are considering.