Stop putting half assed ports on Wii U 3rd party companies!

[Mr Khan]

SubiyaCryolite said:

pokoko said:

They need to look up and realize that the gaming world no longer centers on Japan.  They do an okay job with their partnerships over there but they completely fail when it comes to western developers that aren't Ubisoft.  We have so many smaller publishers over here looking for any competitive advantage they can get.  Nintendo could easily sweeten the deal by paying for ports.  Are NoA/NoE dropping the ball?  Are they being hamstrung by the home office?  I don't know but it needs to be sorted and it CAN be sorted.  Any problem they have with third-parties can be solved, if they're willing to make the investment.

Ive always wondered. What does Nintendo of America actually DO

Little to nothing, anymore. The organization's autonomy, which was important in building Nintendo's recognition in America, was more or less gutted after Howard Lincoln's departure and Iwata's rise to the presidency.

Though there is some debate on that, like how Reggie acted like his opinion was the reason why America never got "Disaster: Day of Crisis", or NoA's bizarre handling of the Project Rainfall titles compared to how easily Europe got them.

They certainly lack the institutional capacity they once had. Perhaps Nintendo looked at Sega's experiences, where Sega suffered from the problem of the San Francisco office having too much autonomy from headquarters in Ota, and decided to centralize decisionmaking power, but went too far in the other direction.