By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Nintendo - Iwata’s investor approval rating drops down to 77.26%

Yakuzaice on 01 July 2013
Mr Khan said:
pfft, investors. When all you care about is the short-term bottom line, of course you're going to resent one of the few people in the industry dedicated to long-term value preservation.

What exactly has Iwata done to preserve long term value?  He basically left the Wii brand to rot, and allowed the DS casual market to migrate to smarthphones.  You can make the argument that Iwata has some plan to turn things around, but that is not a dedication to preserving long-term value.



Around the Network
WagnerPaiva on 01 July 2013

Not bad at all, if 7 out of ten girls I wanted said yes to me, I would probably be dead of some sexual transmited disease by now.



My grammar errors are justified by the fact that I am a brazilian living in Brazil. I am also very stupid.

Barozi on 01 July 2013

30% ? more like 13%



TripleMMM on 01 July 2013
WagnerPaiva said:
Not bad at all, if 7 out of ten girls I wanted said yes to me, I would probably be dead of some sexual transmited disease by now.

What a bloody way to show a positive view from a negative. Good one, chap! XD



 And proud member of the Mega Mario Movement!
happydolphin on 01 July 2013
Yakuzaice said:
Mr Khan said:
pfft, investors. When all you care about is the short-term bottom line, of course you're going to resent one of the few people in the industry dedicated to long-term value preservation.

What exactly has Iwata done to preserve long term value?  He basically left the Wii brand to rot, and allowed the DS casual market to migrate to smarthphones.  You can make the argument that Iwata has some plan to turn things around, but that is not a dedication to preserving long-term value.

If Nintendo hadn't let go of the Wii, the 3DS would have turned into the Vita. Nintendo has only so many resources at one time...

As for smartphones, Nintendo never allowed any such migration. I'm not even sure where you would begin to support a point like that.



Around the Network
kopstudent89 on 01 July 2013

I'd say wait till the holidays, they have a good lineup at a strategical time. Iwata knows best.



travis on 01 July 2013
RolStoppable said:
The Wii U was made, so that third parties could port their games to it. Everyone has already seen the results of that. Logically, the only thing that would happen if Nintendo released a higher speced console is that Nintendo would lose more money on it.


You are probably right. Those third party are probably just too lazy. Knowing nothing about graphics engines, I wonder if the thing about frostbite engine and Unreal 4 or whaterver it's called are just some excuses not to make the customers angry.



papamudd on 01 July 2013

you never know the low sales could be due to the fact that many early adopters knew there were 2 more new consoles coming out soon as well. With both being at such a high price point Wii U sales could boom this holiday season.



Talal said:
I will permaban myself if the game releases in 2014.

in reference to KH3 release date

sethnintendo on 01 July 2013
Barozi said:

30% ? more like 13%

First thing I noticed that didn't look quite right in the op.



Yakuzaice on 01 July 2013
happydolphin said:

If Nintendo hadn't let go of the Wii, the 3DS would have turned into the Vita. Nintendo has only so many resources at one time...

As for smartphones, Nintendo never allowed any such migration. I'm not even sure where you would begin to support a point like that.

Whose fault is it that Nintendo didn't make the necessary investments to be able to support two platforms?  Then made the same mistake again with the Wii U launch.  Nintendo had the money and the time to learn from other publishers in regards to HD development, yet here we are.

He did little to stop them from going to smartphones.  Most of their casual hits on the DS released in the mid 2000's.  They didn't even attempt to compete in terms of pricing or volume of releases.  That's why Brain Age went from selling 20 million to basically nothing on 3DS.