| Mr Khan said: 1) Japanese companies, especially more insular companies like Nintendo (as opposed to more internationalized companies like Sony) do NOT promote from outside, not to their core leadership. This is not just about promoting foreigners from outside Japan, but about promoting people from outside the company hierarchy period. It's a very rare occurrence (compare to NoA, where Reggie was an outsider from VH1). 2) Pursuant to point 1, there's this well-researched thread from GAF (which we have discussed here before as well) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=699964 Yellow = New to the board
This means, as of now, everyone on the board owes their current position to Iwata, being either brought onto the board by him, or promoted higher in the board by him. This means that, even if Iwata were to be forced out, this would only be a symbolic gesture, nothing more. Nothing would change, at least in terms of the leadership style or corporate culture at Nintendo. This means that, if you are one of the ones who thinks that Iwata is the source of Nintendo's problems, then there are two alternatives which logically follow: A) Iwata is capable of fixing the problems that he got Nintendo into or B) Nintendo is screwed. There is no alternative. Nintendo's not going to bring in some "turnaround genius" from some other company (let alone some other foreign company). Nor is any realistically eligible candidate for the presidency going to do anything substantively different. So please, for the sake of logical consistency, quit acting like Iwata's removal would do anything. |
Is it not possible that Nintendo could promote someone from w in that could operate w the same base business philoshophy as Iwata but execute it much better? It seems that Iwata s 1st or 2nd biggest shortcomng is his ability to execute-
Nintendo corporate seems to have had their own "glasnost' as of e3 2014- They seem like they are now operatng under a different set of plans than previous - who/ what do you think prompted that?
IMO one of Nintendo/Iwata s biggest threats is their beleive they can piecemeal further investmetn into their consoles post release until said console has proven its a succesful product- I don t think that is realistic anymore- They are going to need to risk more capital on the front end of future console lifespans in order to get off to a good start and ensure proper momentum- I know that is not how htey typicall operated in the past but they will need to break this cycle to succeed going forward- The success of the Wii probably spoiled many shareholders and influencers at Nintendo - although they may have future consoles that are succesful like the Wii, they would be foolish to count on similar financial metrics
