Given Iwata's recent statements about management structure, will Iwata give more control of the local North American part of the company to Nintendo of America?  It would be an easy way to please the share holders as it'd give the American market a bigger voice in what games get released and what features are required for this market.  Will he do it though?

I don't believe Reggie has had much real say in the company since he was hired. He has most likely pushed to gain some control but things like Operation Rainfall show that he wasn't calling the shots. If he was calling them, the games would have been released. He's a huge gamer. I can't see him not wanting those games for us.

If he was the one who said no, then he should have been fired by now.

I doubt it. It would be smart, but Nintendo won't do it.

Yamauchi trusted Arakawa and Lincoln, Iwata/Miyamoto et all don't trust American devs unless they keep them on a tight leash.

To be honest I don't think Miyamoto liked Rare showing up EAD in the 90s anyway. NOA will remain a powerless puppet shell of what it used to be.

NoA has control over some aspects, but a change is probable. Maybe this can help localize games and be able make broader decisions such as marketing and development, with permission from NCL of course. NoE on the other hand, has proved to be it's weakest and least successful of the 3, yet tries the best it can.

Nintendo of America needs a bag of cash and a seat at the development table. The bag of cash needs to go to third parties to get them on board to make games for the Wii U and the seat at the table is to get things like proper online added into the games.

Look this may be anecdotal evidence however I got pissed off with all these Wii U games not making it to stores in Australia. Ninja Gaiden for example only come out as a download. I was pissed off so I rang them and the guy on the phone said basically they don't have enough funds so if it is a high risk game that may or may nor sell they don't. The reason he gave was the lack of funds because since hardware sales of Wii declined there was no money left for marketing and game localisation because it was spent in previous years during the Wii golden era.

Now to me that is fucked up relying on the local market to make enough money to fund itself. NintendoHQ should be funding marketing/game localisation to help expand their consoles in the west.

I wanted to but the EU release of the game like I used to during the Wii era, however I was informed that I would need an EU NNID, What a hassel if your console fails trying to get it all fixed.

If a game can't get localized for australia in disc form it SHOULD BE on the e-shop.  There is no excuse not to launch a game in Australia that made it out in North America.

As for the money comment, it's likely that Nintendo chose to blow their marketing budget pushing the 3DS.  Still no excuse not to push the Wii U harder.  Using a little cash to grease the wheels of the blog sites would be a good start.

We can all hope he does but in reality, he won't... He will spend Nintendo's 8 Billion to make wii music 2 a success!

it is on the eshop but I don't buy digital I want physical games. 

According to that guy they spent their marketing budget (ie tv ads ad goign to game shows) long before the 3DS come out as they didn't expect to see the Wii drop off  over the last two years to a crawl.

It would be ingenious marketing strategies and a bunch of magical fairies to only invest 8 billion $ to make WII MUSIC U a success.