Soundwave said:
Hard to say where this would go but it seems to be something aimed at slapping the board of directors at Nintendo out of their insular culture. Which could be good.
That said, it could be something bad if say this outside "group" looks at Nintendo financials and starts to push for things like more emphasis on smartphone game development, which is a low hanging piece of fruit for a business suit.
So kinda like
Pro: It may take the power out of Nintendo's odd decision making (ie: Miyamoto loves cartridges, so we're ditching CDs because of his personal preference! We're making the console purple because Miyamoto likes purple!) and inject some sanity into corporate decision making.
Con: More corporate oversight may mean Nintendo becomes more beholden to business suits who want more milking of things and probably will want more smartphone games because that's where they see $$$$$.
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Pretty much this.
As a side my company has a spuervicory committee and they made up of directors form stakeholders we deal with. In a way this is good for us as then ensure we deliver what they mutually need in the sector.
So what i'm getting at is if Nintendo pick the correct directors (i.e. people from other developers and perhaps chip makers) then I agree your pros is what will happen and if those devs feel like they had a decision in making the next gen console then they are more likley to also develope for it.
