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Miyamotoo on 14 September 2015
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Soundwave said:
Miyamotoo said:

Actually Yamauchi is reason why Nintendo has so close so long, Iwata is CEO who began to rely open Nintendo to market.


I'm not really sure that's entirely accurate. Nintendo was actually far more flexible in a lot of ways under Yamauchi. He was willing to use a Western designed SGI chip for the N64, invest in Rareware, allow NOA free reign to do things like make deals for the Star Wars license, invest in 2nd party studios like Retro, Left Field, NST, etc. 

Under Iwata, Nintendo became a much more insular, Japan-only company. Though I don't think that was all on Iwata, Iwata never had the power that Yamauchi did. Yamauchi did what ever he wanted and no one would dare question it. Iwata had to manage his board of directors and a lot of other egos in Japan. 

Did you know what 3rd party need to do in order to release game on NES and SNES!? 3rd parties badly needed to beg Nintendo in Japan to love them to release game on their platform.

N64 was step in with direction, but GC really opened to West, just look specs of that consoles and 3rd party support.

Iwata never had big power true, other Nintendo exusiteves considered Iwata for "Wild Cowboy" because of his opened ideas and way of thinking, and they were holding him down.