I'll mess his appearance in E3 :(

That was because of the price and lack of games if it was for the design it wouldn’t have sold more that the original DSs first year in 8 months

Can someone PLZ!! Fix the ads on this site? I get three ads playing by themselves all together!!!

Well the 3ds is taking off so there is nothing wrong with the system itself if you are trying to imply the scenario with the virtual boy. So unless he was the one who decided to price at $250 and early launch time with no real games (I don't think he makes pricing or launch dates decisions),  the slow start really has nothing to do with him . Also the first game that's started the take-off of the 3ds was SM3dLand, which he was most heavily involved in. So your scenario will be like punishing him for revitalizing the 3ds.

I love your paranoid ideas, i relly do. I dont think anyone thought of this.

On topic i think its good, he wants to get away from the politics and get to making actual games, nothing wrong with that. Unless what Rol said is true, if then ouch.

The worst thing that can happen to the company is if he left "feet first".  (even though that's how he will really leave)

Satoru Iwata deserves the blame you're dropping on Miyamoto.

You mean he made the decision to cut the price that much? And he decides when games get released as well as decide to give 3^rd party developers the opportunity to release games before the big Nintendo games come?

3DS was sold at the price of 250 because of the positive reaction it got from the press. Nintendo even said that themselves. I guess that was Miyamotos decision as well…

I wonder what Iwata does as a president

Um he is not retiring, did you read the article? Did no one read the article?

 I think the high price was due purely because of hype  http://www.vooks.net/story-19610-Iwata-says-3DS-priced-high-because-of-hype.html .

There is nothing state of the art about 3ds. Yes, it is a naturally progressed dsi with a parallax barrier slapped on the top screen. In fact the production cost is probably even less than the ds/dsi (at their launches) because its uses a lot of the same assets of the ds at the depreciated costs (same cheaper?-ass cameras, same touch screen, same form factor etc). They just put a parallax barrier to clever use.

 They were losing money  because of very strong yen + slow sales of both home and handheld consoles + R&D(All never happend before simulatously, R&D are probably highest ever for WIIU if its true they are going after 3rd parties).  And they probably just made it sound like they were making a loss on 3ds after the cut. It would have sound kinda evil if they drop the price  by that margin and still boast that they are still making a profit.