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AZWification on 29 January 2014

 

        During a conference held in Osaka this morning Nintendo’s President Satoru Iwata mentioned that he’s “thinking on how to make the company stand up again” as reported by the Asahi Shinbun.

       Iwata-san also mentioned that one of the problems of the current generation is that the company wasn’t successful enough in attracting the youngest areas of its target customer base:

"We haven’t been targeting children enough."

        Nintendo is expected to give more information on its strategy to increase the efficiency of the business on the medium and long term in a corporate management policy briefing to be held tomorrow.

        Personally I’m not sure if focusing on children even more is the right choice, but an analyst did complain that his son in elementary school never wanted a Wii U. Maybe Iwata-san took his words more seriously than expected.

        Link to the article: http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/01/29/nintendo-we-havent-been-targeting-children-enough/

Adding link to contradicting OP since this is the older thread

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AwakeandAlive on 29 January 2014

wtf !? I didn`t see any "HARDCORE" commercial.



kirby007 on 29 January 2014

agreed the ds was used in schools, haven'theard that for the 3ds yet



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Figgycal on 29 January 2014

That's a joke.



trestres on 29 January 2014

Brace yourselves. Hopefully this doesn't mean cancelling games already in production to shift resources to potential mini game fests.



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Areym on 29 January 2014

Are they...are they serious?



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bananaking21 on 29 January 2014

no nintendo, thats not the problem.



bananaking21 on 29 January 2014
BasilZero said:
bananaking21 said:
no nintendo, thats not the problem.


I'm glad I'm a multiplat gamer lol.


i lol'd, still am. 



AZWification on 29 January 2014
Areym said:
Are they...are they serious?

".....but an analyst did complain that his son in elementary school never wanted a Wii U. Maybe Iwata-san took his words more seriously than expected."



                
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random15 on 29 January 2014

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