Great read. Now more than ever Nintendo needs a strong western branch that can offer some western games, services, features and build relations with third parties. Not likely to happen, but it is so very much needed. It's a sin, because the games Nintendo makes are still outstanding.
I wouldn't blame Miyamoto for the slow adaptation to CD-drives. That was more circumstance than anything else. Poor decision and turn of events? Absolutely, but I don't think it was someone like Miyamoto saying no way so much as it was the failed deal with Sony meaning Nintendo had to adapt the strengths of cartridge and then extol its virtues.
I've said many times before, Nintendo's direction is not just Iwata, or Miyamoto, or any one individual, but a team of individuals that were picked to maintain the culture and principles that Nintendo operates under. Their system isn't all bad, they just really need to embrace some changes in the industry.
