Reggie on NX: "For us it's not about specs"

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oniyide said:

Aquamarine said:

This was Nintendo's president Hiroshi Yamauchi speaking in Nintendo's 1999 annual report:

Once upon a time, Nintendo actually cared about specs and image quality. Executives like Reggie keep insisting that Nintendo isn't a company who "cares about the specs," but for nearly 20 years with Yamauchi in charge that wasn't the case at all.

It's disappointing how Kimishima doesn't want to return to those glory days.

maybe they can't and they have accepted it, maybe its time for some of us to do the same

Yeah I think so. It's not the 80s/90s anymore, Nintendo had a great run then, but times change. 

Microsoft has come into the industry and they have grabbed the no.2 spot, Sony is still at 1 ... there is no room for no.3. The industry is also dramatically different today, consoles are largely big budget violent games now, with the need for smaller more cartoony games being satisfied by free smart phone games.

Nintendo's role is different and probably to be more of a smaller part of the industry, but they can still make good money off smartphone games and probably OK money off the NX if they handle it correctly. 

They needed to do better with the GameCube to defend their traditional console market and they failed to do so then, the Wii was a different direction, but they lost that audience too, so it is what it is now. You can't allow someone else to invade your country, take over, and think you can just win it back easily 15-20 years later. The enemey is too entrenched and has taken over. 

I do prefer Yamauchi's Nintendo over today's Nintendo, they just made a massive mistake with the CD-ROM issue, that screwed everything up and that kinda haunts Nintendo to this day. I think Yamauchi was too old with the GameCube and no Howard Lincoln/Minoru Arakawa around to shape the platform also killed it. People like Miyamoto should've been kept away from its hardware design.