Nintendo/Iwata's Bias Against The West

[Soundwave]

mii-gamer said:

Soundwave said:

Seems to me like Western devs are kicking Nintendo's rear end at making break out hits for casuals for a while now. 

Angry Birds, Candy Crush, Minecraft, Fruit Ninja, etc. 

Maybe they should spend a few dollars on financing some Western studios to see if they can't make a break out hit like that, but they won't because it's just not how Nintendo of today operates. Nintendo 15 years ago? No doubt. They would be financing small Western/indies like crazy and they'd give teams like the Darksiders guys a shot to make games, but Nintendo of today? No way. 

Basically all assumption and no facts? It's not like Nintendo published lego city undercover

Just like the lies and bullshit that jumpin,hedra and myself have pointed which you refuse to address? Ok then, i'll just bookmark this thread for the lols

LEGO City and what else? *crickets*

The facts are in the games and Nintendo has precious little to show for Western development since 2002. There really is no debating that. If anything Western development on Nintendo's part should have *increased* from the 90s to now, the FACT that its decreased is simply baffling. 

It's actually fairly egregious that Iwata, after swimming in all that money from the Wii/DS eras, could not even open *one* single Western studio. 

And yet Nintendo fans wonder why they don't have games today. Would it have been that difficult to open one fairly decent sized studio in the US/Canada and perhaps another in Europe somewhere? 

I agree with Purple above, though a lot of this is politics ... Iwata doesn't want to have a strong NOA like they had in the 90s. It could eventually become a threat to his own leadership position so he purposely keeps NOA/NOE under his foot and weak.