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Nuvendil on 15 July 2015
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Mr.Playstation said:
Nuvendil said:
See what I mean by no win scenario? If Nintendo puts any serious backing behind this they'll be bombarded for spending resources on this instead of [insert desired game here]. If they don't people will say they aren't supporting the game or console fully. If they don't publish it, they'll really get blasted.

Oh and I think this supports my theory: they backed Itagaki and his reputation, probably gave him almost complete autonomy. And then he screwed the pooch and Nintendo didn't see it coming til it was too late. Modest budget or not, your game should at least be competent. Poor bet on Nintendo's part, but poor form on the devs too.

Yeah, Nintendo can easily strike a perfect balance ( and make everyone happy ) but lately they've been going overboard ( Splatoon ) with their support or it's so non-existant that the end product is horrible ( Devil's Third )

 

A perfect compromise would have been to first of all make sure that the game is going along smoothly during development ( and hence be a good game ) and that secondly they could market it here and there but not buy the marketing spots in every single major gaming website.

Well again I am going to say the biggest mistake here is misplaced trust.  Itagaki was a great developer before, they probably gave him the money and almost full autonomy and only recently realized just how badly things went under his guidance.  If the game were unfinished, slightly unpolished, or had the other earmarks of just being rushed or modestly budgeted, yeah I would put 99% of the blame on Nintendo.  But what is so far being described is a complete disaster.  When that is the case, I think you have to put at least equal blame on the developers if not more.