RolStoppable said:
Even if we assume that all of the missing votes would be disapproval, Iwata's approval rating would still be up over last year's. And that's coming off a financial year where Nintendo missed their Wii U forecast by a huge margin and their 3DS forecast by a sizeable margin. That's a pretty strong vote of confidence in Iwata righting the ship, especially because the common expectation was a significant drop in Iwata's approval rating. |
Im sure if the vote was held prior to the end of the fiscal year, the numbers would be extremely different. Its easy to overcome expectations when they bar is set so low, even the smallest jump gets you over the hump and that is what Nintendo layed out in May. The flat year on year confidence vote just means, to me, that voters are waiting to see what Iwata does with everything Nintendo announced last fiscal year to overcome said lower console and software sales, it is in no way a validation that his changes are a step in the right direction for Nintendo.
