Nintendo needs more western studios and more original western IPs to appeal to the west.

[Veknoid_Outcast]

Maybe, but Sony's greatest asset is Japan Studio, not a "Western" studio.

If Nintendo wants to expand and work on new genres that's fine with me but, in my mind, it's more important to make great games and less important to make a game oriented around a "Western" or "Eastern" audience, whatever that is. Obviously paying attention to common denominators is a good recipe for financial success, but I'd rather Nintendo stick to its design philosophy and succeed or fail accordingly.

Also, it's incorrect to refer to the West, or East for that matter, as a monolith. There are thousands of cultural, political, and economic realities and communities in each sphere.