| dongo8 said: He could have been misquoted during this interview, he could have been misquoted every time he has spoken. We don't know, we don't speak Japanese, we go by what the media reports. So as I said, of course he's going to backtrack, I'm not taking one articles word over anothers when there were weeks in between where he could have corrected it. He never did, not until another interview came up. I'm not saying he's a liar, but I can tell you this happens a lot with people who DO speak our language. They let something slip, and then they try and cover it up, it's not any different in this case. He doesn't want to be quoted speaking negatively about his company, so he claimed misquote. Not a big deal, I just believe the original over the "correction" |
So basically, you're claiming that Nikkei are incapable of getting it wrong, that it's more plausible that the new President of Nintendo went out there and said something bad about the previous president despite Japan's culture pretty much making such talk entirely unacceptable, rather than that Nikkei incorrectly interpreted what Kimishima was saying?
Kimishima's explanation sounds perfectly believable - he said that he was aware of the likelihood of the Wii U not selling as well as the Wii, and they interpreted that to mean that he saw something wrong with the Wii U... but his actual view was that the Wii was so popular, it would be hard to get people to shift away from it. Even if he believed otherwise, there's just no way he'd actually say something in an interview that suggested something wrong with what Iwata did.
