| firebush03 said: whereas Furukawa’s focus has been on expanding into new IP (e.g. just look at the NS1/NS2 generation). |
There was a big a total of 0 new IPs created under Furakawa supervision
Under Iwata there were several. Granted it's not a totally fair comparison because the current state of gaming as a whole is to be less innovation driven, but there was much more focus on IP expansion during Iwata
Furakawa however has a more corporative mind, he likes Nintendo's expansion for other media like movies, while Iwata kept Nintendo's obsession with their IPs being gaming-excluse
Furakawa wants Nintendo to slowly transition from a brand that feels totally apart from the rest of industry to being an active part of this industry: More powerful console, standard control schema, moving to a more service/subscription-based revenues, more focus on online multiplayer, more focus on DLCs and expansions, more focus on digital
If those changes are good or not is to anyone guess, but the signs are clear
