What can Nintendo do to win the console race against competitors?

[Mr Khan]

spemanig said:
Hire Reggie Fils-Aime to be CEO of NOA. Hire a European to be CEO of NOE. Demote or fire Iwata. Promote a fresher face to be president like Masakiro Sakurai or Eiji Aonuma.

Purchase and create a bunch of new western development studios to create new hardcore western IP's. Buy Capcom. Bring back the Nintendo Seal of Quality and enforce it. Improve the online infer structure with modern standards.

Shibata seems to do a good enough job with NoE. I agree that NoA needs more latitude, though, Howard Lincoln did a lot of good for Nintendo which was largely overlooked (in terms of how significant it was).

I still don't see the need to fire Iwata. Sakurai's not going to want to touch executive status with a nine-foot pole. There's a reason he left HAL. Iwata's potential replacements are all going to think the same as him, as far as we know. Any different thinking they could have would be inspired by the mere fact that Iwata got fired, not because they think differently than he does.

 

I rather like Takashi Tezuka, instead. Promote him and (empowered NoA prez) Reggie to the board.