I don't think Nintendo is afraid. I think Nintendo wants to shape the gaming business THEIR way.

Iwata has been in serious fear of quarterly and annual operating losses - not becase they cant afford t but due more to pride and keeping investors calm- So he has cut investment and cut advertising in order to lose less, break even or make a small profit- Nintendo s annual revenue has gone down every years for since their 1st loss (I think even before that) - so even though Iwata has shrunk losses since then, he has done so at the expense of market share, investment and the overall size of the company- Nintendo is a much smaller co in terms of revenue than it was only a few years ago- the only way to make money or break even in an extended period of declining revenues is to cut spending- the problem is, particularly I the video game industry in this day and age, is you have to spend money to make money-
Iwata and co are hoping to make money 1st then invest in their platform but that did not happen w the Wii U
Now that they have consistently declining revenues in the home console and handheld platforms they have had to branch out in the mobile in hopes they can make relatively quick money on relatively smaller investments

Regardless Nintendo has consistently been going in the wrong direction as far as revenue, growth, profits and cash balance (yes they still have a lot of cash just not quite as much as they had) for years now-

We ll see re the NX- "something that has not been done before" could be a small gimmick or something truly transforming- but IMO they will run toward the casual s again (after they make some noise about 3rd party partnerships and delivering core games to excite their base fans that are most likely to buy during launch- but once launch window sales slow they will run hard to the casuals and not look back IMO

No one even talked about Inafune's interview, just Nintendo.

well said, i dont think its fear either. I think its sometimes being too careful and sometimes not being careful at all, they are trying to find the balance. You have to almost be in their position to understand how eaxctly you can adapt.

Hey Rol,

Thank's for the feedback. I disagree though- I am learning by "doing"-meaning improving my treads by creating them;even, if they are not stellar by your standards. I have two questions  1) Had this tread being about Sony/Microsoft would you had consider it subpar or debatable? Does your criticism comes from being a Nintendo fan? 2) What do you consider a good trend? What are some of the characteristics?

Also, does Inafune needed to be precisely right at the time he gave that interview(The one were Japanese games were doing well?) Or could he be considered a visionary? Who saw what would happened to Nintendo and Square Enix down the road.

Inafune's criticism is actually funny and "6 out of 10 best selling games were Japanese", hmm, couldn't be more wrong.

COD: Black Ops, Halo Reach, Assassins Creed: Brotherhood, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Kinect Adventures and Sport are all Western games and probably sold more than all the Japanese games combined, released on 7th gen at that point. And I didn't even include the sport games that sold a lot as well in 2010.