Pavolink on 10 February 2016
TomaTito said:
CaptainExplosion said:
Mr. Kimishima is showing promise so far. I'm looking forward to seeing where he takes Nintendo. :) |
I'm not sure if you've seen my post or read the Q&A, but Q6 says the complete oposite. Kimishima is just following Iwata's (and whole management) plan.
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Q6: When you became president, Mr. Kimishima, I believe you stated that you would be carrying on the existing strategies, but we also expect that you will bring your personal touch to Nintendo's business strategy. Do you have a plan that you can share today, or do you intend to leave strategy to the younger generation? Are there any particular goals that you have set for yourself?
As you said, when I became president, I stated that my role was to continue to proceed on the course that I helped to set with President Iwata and the rest of the management at that time. The ideas of our young employees are also key to our ability to transition to the next generation and to continue to produce exciting ideas. It is important to structure our organization so that these young people can take active roles. We have worked to establish such an organization; one that will allow our employees to reach their full potential in many different areas. It may be difficult to see from outside of the company, but we have made major changes to our organization. For example, our game developers have not had much of a public presence in the past, but we would like to create more and more opportunities for you to get to know them in the future.
As for business strategy, the hardware-software integrated business will remain the core of our game business, but we ensure that we will also expand this to include smart device activity and fuse these businesses into a synergistic whole. “My Nintendo” is a crucial part of this strategy as well. We seek to deepen our relationship with our consumers by having them join the “My Nintendo” program.
I would also like to touch on the QOL (Quality of Life) program today. We do not feel that we are currently at a stage where we can commercialize a product that deals with sleep and fatigue, so we are not planning to launch any products in this area in the fiscal year ending in March 2016. However, we do believe there is potential in the QOL sector, so we will continue to consider further development in this area.
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I wonder if Iwata in the end admitted many Nintendo's faults and decided to correct it. Theme Parks, Movies or Netflix Series, Mobile games and maybe the NX speculated system is proof that he was a future vision different than the current one. He wanted to transform Nintendo.
