Hedra42 said:
Zod95 said:
Soundwave said:
It is kind of odd that Nintendo has pretty much disengaged from the West, whereas in the 90s they were much more of an East + West company. Why the change and is it warranted? Especially when the West now is basically the entire console market? It seems to basically all trace back to Iwata and even Miyamoto moving up the ranks on Nintendo's Board of Directors.
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Congrats for your outstanding article. It has well researched info I was not aware of and found it very interesting and clarifying. I had already the impression that japanese companies, as a rule, are very closed and only focused on themselves but the situation with Nintendo seems to be fatally dangerous.
The japanese market is much less significant nowadays and Nintedo has been disinvesting from the West?! That's suicide! Besides, Iwata and Miyamoto not understanding the western market is no excuse at all. If they understand money, they should realize that Nintendo in America and Europe should have more power and resources, not less. And, if they don't understand the West, they should give those regions more independence, not less. This is common sense.
Regarding the Minecraft thing (and eventually many other cases that may follow the same paradigm), that's not understanding the West, that's being xenophobic. Minecraft is an arcade game that has nothing to do with any culture. They ignore it because they find it to be developed by people from the West. How sad...
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You weren't aware of it, because much of it doesn't exist and is conjecture - I'm still waiting for Soundwave to come up with the sources info.
I found it a fascinating, well set out and convincing OP also, until I actually tried to do the research myself.
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Whilst some of the details in the OP is conjecture and assumption based on past events, I still think the conclusions he draws are sound.
Nintendo have reduced the amount of Western development studios they own and this has reduced the overall output from the West. Even second party Western output is low (in both new and established IP) even though the majority of the industry is based in the West. Even if Iwata wasn't responsible for the reduction in Western developers, he is responsible for not bringing more in.
