Interesting. A stronger corporate background compared to Iwata
I hope he has a sense of humor and some charisma and not just some stern old fart from Japan.
This kinda smells of being a transitional hire. He's already 65, which means Nintendo will probably have to look for another president in 8-10 years.
I guess Miyamoto/Takeda did not want to burden the responsibility of all the corporate side stuff so he makes sense as a hire for the time being.
| ihatefatkatz said: Interesting. A stronger corporate background compared to Iwata I hope he has a sense of humor and some charisma and not just some stern old fart from Japan. |
as I said previously he's the most 'murrica among the Japanese, he lives in the US and he was NoA president back then before the Reggie-lution
cycycychris said:
I certainly see then coming back. But I'm not to sure if he'll be doing them. I think at least to start we will get region directs. |
I agree, Iwata is very uniqe, I dont see new CEO doint Nintendo Directs, very likle getting region Directs with Reggie, BIll Threnon, Shibata..
I now expecting next direct October-November or in January-February.
| AlfredoTurkey said: I hope he's more like Yamauchi. No disrespect to the late Iwata, but I prefer the hardcore, take no prisoners approach of his former boss. Nintendo was the shit during the NES/SNES years. |
Actually Yamauchi is reason why Nintendo has so close so long, Iwata is CEO who began to rely open Nintendo to market.
...but is he a gamer in his heart?
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
Miyamotoo said:
Actually Yamauchi is reason why Nintendo has so close so long, Iwata is CEO who began to rely open Nintendo to market. |
I'm not really sure that's entirely accurate. Nintendo was actually far more flexible in a lot of ways under Yamauchi. He was willing to use a Western designed SGI chip for the N64, invest in Rareware, allow NOA free reign to do things like make deals for the Star Wars license, invest in 2nd party studios like Retro, Left Field, NST, etc.
Under Iwata, Nintendo became a much more insular, Japan-only company. Though I don't think that was all on Iwata, Iwata never had the power that Yamauchi did. Yamauchi did what ever he wanted and no one would dare question it. Iwata had to manage his board of directors and a lot of other egos in Japan.
Soundwave said:
Under Iwata, Nintendo became a much more insular, Japan-only company. Though I don't think that was all on Iwata, Iwata never had the power that Yamauchi did. Yamauchi did what ever he wanted and no one would dare question it. Iwata had to manage his board of directors and a lot of other egos in Japan. |
Did you know what 3rd party need to do in order to release game on NES and SNES!? 3rd parties badly needed to beg Nintendo in Japan to love them to release game on their platform.
N64 was step in with direction, but GC really opened to West, just look specs of that consoles and 3rd party support.
Iwata never had big power true, other Nintendo exusiteves considered Iwata for "Wild Cowboy" because of his opened ideas and way of thinking, and they were holding him down.
OMFG xD these news are so exciting, but sad in the same time in a way, but still exciting
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