| Zod95 said: None of your several inputs shows Nintendo is investing on the West, trying to maintain or even raise the support there. So, your comments (whether they are right or wrong) do not challenge what you've quoted. My comments to DevilRising remain valid. However, to be honest, I think there's a low probability of those points and sources to be right (at least the conclusion, which is "it's not Nintendo's/Iwata's fault"). I can't tell for sure once I've done zero investigation (I really don't care about those details) but I would say that, most probably, it is indeed Nintendo's/Iwata's fault. Why? There's an old saying in my country that is more or less like this: "if one of your partners fails there's something wrong with him, if all of your partners fail there's something wrong with you". So, regardless whether it is Nintendo or their western partners to take the initiative of moving away, if it's a massive trend, it's Nintendo's fault (even if the media tries to shake off the guilt from the big corporation to the small and innocuous firms). Moreover, if Nintendo doesn't get new western partners to replace the old ones, it's obviously Nintendo's fault too. |
I think you may have misunderstood the point of my post and the discussion it pertains to. It was not intended to show or prove that Nintendo is investing in the west. It was challenging the quote "In basically two years, Iwata dismantles...." by itemising points raised in the OP and providing links to contextual information relating to each partnership break-up.
NOBODY is disputing the fact that there are fewer western developers now than there were before. But that was never the focus of the OP or the discussion of this thread.
Look at the topic title. Yes, the OP points out the very obvious decline in the number of western developers over the past decade, but it uses this information to support the proposal that Iwata/Nintendo are biased against the west. This thread has been a discussion on whether or not the decline is indeed the result of a trend of bias or whether it is attributable to a combination of other factors.
You have repeatedly said in this thread that you are not interested in this discussion or its details, and by your own admission, have done zero investigation on it yourself. I'm afraid that any conclusions and opinions based on zero investigation and local sayings don't really carry any weight.
