Dromble: Dan Adelman Discusses Nintendo’s Culture, Third Parties, VC & More

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Soundwave said:

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Mr Khan said:

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Soundwave said:

kljesta64 said:
why are people reading this and take it as the truth ?

Because Adelman worked at Nintendo for nine years?

He likely knows a hell of a lot more than some random nobody on the internet. 

Honestly this is one of the few articles on the net about Nintendo worth reading, a lot of the other stuff is just garbage. 

he worked for nintendo japan ?

NoA, but decently high up the chain (more or less ran the show for DSiWare and WiiWare, at least in terms of 3rd party games, as well as successors on the eShop), so he would definitely be privy to higher-end decisionmaking.

i know its noa thats my point.. and still that doesnt make him know whats exactly going on.

i believe it when i hear it from nintendo japan. 

Nintendo Japan does not discuss internal business practises and certainly not with a Western media outlet. You're never going to get that interview.

Discussions from the Japanese side with the press are strictly promotional business (as in: this is our spring lineup, please enjoy).

Nintendo honestly might be one of the notoriously most secretive and strict corporate entities on the planet. I actually don't think that's much of a reach.  

There's no reason to think Adelman is lying though, in fact out of all the garbage people read about Nintendo, this is one of the few things that actually has any real substance to it. To operate in his position he would have had to have had interface with the Japanese HQ, in fact given Nintendo's nature there's no way he would be allowed to run things like Wiiware autonomously as a foreigner. 

im not saying he is lying he just doesnt know the whole picture.