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mZuzek said:

Lucky? Umm... I don't know, sell the company so then I can be rich without the responsibility and pressure of managing a worldwide company?

...But okay, I'll play along as this can be a fun thing to think about.

I'd put a messaging system on the Switch so you can talk to anyone you're friends with, and also making game invites as a system-wide feature something that's actually useful. I'd have the developers work on the online multiplayer, giving games like Smash and Splatoon a decent netcode and also make it free.

So, no more Nintendo Online subscription, instead the NES and SNES apps would be their own subscription thing, $10 a year. Of course, N64, GB/GBC and GBA games would be added to it eventually, all under the same subscription. However, even people who aren't paying for it are still allowed to open the app for each console and buy each game individually if they like it better that way.

In terms of the Switch hardware, the main priority would be fixing the Joy-Con drift. Also, I'd have them make a docked-only version of the Switch, which would come with more USB ports, a better audio jack (the one on the Switch gives off noise when docked), and a built-in ethernet port. Then I'd distribute several thousand of these docked-only Switch units to tournament organizers across the world. Speaking of tournaments, I'd make the Airplane Mode available always, and you can't use any wireless controller when it is turned on. Easy fix, really.

Games. Well...

The Legend of Zelda: HD Collection. A re-release of Wind Waker HD, Twilight Princess HD, as well as a brand new remaster of Skyward Sword, as well as a slightly reworked remake/remaster of Ocarina of Time 3D and Majora's Mask 3D. Don't care about the price, if it has to go beyond $60, then so be it. I'd also have the Link's Awakening team start working on a remake of Zelda 2.

Metroid Prime Trilogy HD. Obviously. I don't know if this is already in the works, I feel like it isn't, but jesus this has to be the most obvious thing ever. Personally, I'd have them rework the graphics, make each of the three games as pretty as it can be, while leaving the gameplay itself intact. That, and also I'd bring back the original scan logs from the GameCube release of Prime 1 (a few of these got changed in the Trilogy port and I'm no fan of it).

Put Amaterasu in Smash. And also Life Will Change.

Then I'd throw a massive budget into making a new Star Fox game, and resign from CEO to work on that game as a director. Or something.

I wanted to talk Pokémon, but I think even in this dream scenario, saving that franchise is beyond the realm of possibility. So, let it rot in hell. But of course, if this were to happen in real life, yeah I'd do the thing I said in the first line.

Sorry but you are just head of the company. Didn't say anything about owning shares in it. You sold the company to Apple, they turn it into the iTendo, charge Apple premium for it so now Switch costs $600. Sales plummet and Apple closes the division. Now Nintendo doesn't exist and you got no money, your life is a failure. Later you decide to write a book about how you destroyed Nintendo. You get rich, but everyone hates you and you get death threats weekly. You move to a tropical island, but tragically die in a skydiving accident. The investigation finds, oddly, that your parachute had been replaced by a bag full of NES cartridges.....meanwhile in Japan, Miyamoto looks upon his collection of Nintendo games, and shuffles a few games around to cover up 20 missing NES games...and the new Star Fox game is never made!