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Soundwave on 01 April 2014
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burninmylight said:
Mr Khan said:
Pavolink said:
I clearly don't understand what they are doing. They promise no droughts and we're between one. Zero marketing. Zero sense.

Iwata will be fired in june.

If so, it will be a token gesture that will change nothing (which is why it shouldn't happen).


I'm not for firing him, but I don't understand why he's in charge of NOA. Put a freaking 'merican in charge, dammit. You know, someone who is actually here and has a shot of understanding the pulse of the people and the market.


NOA hasn't had any creative control over anything since 2000 when Arakawa/Lincoln retired. Iwata has consolidated all power through him, NOA is just a puppet shell now that has no say in Nintendo policy making. 

It's kinda sad because NOA really saved Nintendo's bacon in the 1990s, without the Rare acquistion which was Howard Lincoln's baby, it's very likely the SNES would have sold a fair bit less because DKC was the game that really powered the system and the N64 would've died outright without support from Rare (particularily GoldenEye which carried the console for like an entire year until Zelda OoT was finally ready).