| RingoGaSuki said: Now an interview straight from Game Freak's Masayuki Onoue, a programmer/director of Giga Wrecker Alt - stating that Pokemon isn't even GF's first priority at the moment. If they aren't prioritising the biggest selling media franchise in the world, why are they allowed to continue working on it? Nintendo seriously needs to consider just buying out GF's 33% of Pokemon and have someone else develop the games at this point. Seriously, fucking why? |
Management in Japan is a pretty big issue from what I see working here (I work in improvement, including management improvement).
They are in a weird position, some of the companies still managing like 50 years ago which is terrible and inefficient (and sometimes deadly for the employees), but on the other side some companies try to be younger and more international, and end up doing way too much and losing all logic and structure, losing their goal and priority in the process.
My current company, for exemple, got so excited about "3D printing" and "laser manufacturing" to be pioneers in Japan, that they invested a fortune in currently useless very expensive machines for R&D, while they completely "forgot" to keep money to buy spare parts or machines on the critical and fragile machine our entire production depends on. We obviously have only one machine like this, and the entire production stops anytime we have an issue with it. Great management, right ?
Their usual excuse is that "no-one in the company has management training or experience", and it seems pretty usual because foreign friends in other companies tell me the same thing. It's entirely possible that the GF management is just completely incompetent and got lost in their "let's innovate with new titles" stuff.
