Nintendo's Iwata: "I don't recall saying I'd resign."
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Cosmonaut X
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Brera's going to shit his pants.
Moz La Punk
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Not surprised at all. And him resigning isn't a proper solution.
WiiredShawn
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Please understand.
Bitches.
Immaculate
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please understand
dreamghost
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If they hit that 1.1 billion mark. Iwata should do a make it rain video at the next investors meeting.
granabanana
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*laughs* good on him. Love iwata
nckillthegrimace
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This sounds like something you'd say before you pull a lever and kill everyone.
Ninja Scooter
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of course he won't voluntarily resign. Instead he will be fired when the Wii U sells badly again through this holiday season.
This is great news, if only to piss off the people looking forward to his resignation.
Reading your post and the top gif together, laughs were had.
Maybe someone can explain it to me, but I don't see how they come close to reaching their fiscal year goal.
Seems like you would have to see an explosion of Wii U sales but wouldn't be able to do a price drop.
Seems like you would have to see an explosion of Wii U sales but wouldn't be able to do a price drop.
Ahahahahaha I thought the very same thing. Like a austin powers scene with docter evil.
Knux-Future
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some people are on suduku watch now.
DeaconKnowledge
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Good.
phosphor112
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I still think the guy needs to go. They need an overhaul.
peanutbutterlatte
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On a serious note, I can't help but feel that poor translation is behind 60% of the "headline quotes" when it comes to Japanese companies like this.
shinra-bansho
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That's because they can't. Neither their unit sales nor their profit forecast seems that likely at this stage.
Cosmonaut X
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I don't know. It's an incredibly ambitious goal and I don't see anything on the face of things that suggests they're going to make it, unless the system costs a hell of a lot less to build than everybody assumes and they can afford a good cut while still making money on each unit sold, or they're able to reduce the cost of 3DS a hell of a lot and start profiting more on that hardware.
They don't need the Wii U to jump massively high to achieve the target. It's not a Wii U target, it's an overall target.
The 3DS however, it will SERIOUSLY help this target due to one thing alone. Pokémon. Pokémon will spur sales of the 3DS like crazy. Nintendo will receive a good portion of the profits from it also.
I doubt they'll hit the target, but they'll come damn close.
Anyway, all Iwata said is that he'd take responsibility for it. He never said he'd resign, people just assumed that.
Iwata shouldn't leave. So he doesn't capitulate to the west's view on gaming? So what? He's a CEO who truly cares about the industry. Very few people in charge are like that. Miyamoto, Iwata, Cerny...these are developers who care about the industry, who want what's best for the consumer. People seem to want Iwata replaced so someone can jump in and do crap like put it on iOS, make games F2P to just grab money from the consumer. This is not a good thing.
Doesn't really matter if the Wii U sells badly anyway. Nintendo will most likely making the most money this holiday compared to Sony and MS gaming wise.
They aren't going to fire the guy who made them billions of dollars.
Ninja Scooter
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He lost them billions of dollars in market share, both with 3DS and Wii U.
granabanana
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3ds was a flop too and look what happened a while after
peanutbutterlatte
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The 3DS is doing pretty well now, but the launch was poorly handled, big price cut under a year after launch, etc. If he can turn the Wii U round in a similar fashion people will be less antsy I guess. I don't think him personally is the problem with Nintendo to be honest.
Saw someone on the train today doing that. The fucking numbers man, those goddamn numbers.
They must be stopped...
3DS launch was a disaster in the beginning. Everyone seems to forget
Ah! Lost in traslation hits again! XD
More seriously, about the goals: at this point, it's all in
1)Yen exchange rates (right now, much better than Nintendo's estimates)
2)3DS performance
About 3DS, it's possible hardware sales saw a good improvement even before AC in Europe, looking at shares, and now sales should improve in US too thanks to New Leaf. But, certainly, software sales increased enormously over here, and it's not Fall/Holiday season yet.
I can't think Wii U can reach those targets, at all. Its environment will improve, but not that much to think the its situation saw a middle turn around, even.
More seriously, about the goals: at this point, it's all in
1)Yen exchange rates (right now, much better than Nintendo's estimates)
2)3DS performance
About 3DS, it's possible hardware sales saw a good improvement even before AC in Europe, looking at shares, and now sales should improve in US too thanks to New Leaf. But, certainly, software sales increased enormously over here, and it's not Fall/Holiday season yet.
I can't think Wii U can reach those targets, at all. Its environment will improve, but not that much to think the its situation saw a middle turn around, even.
w1gglyjones
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It's a 100 billion Yen in operating profit. That's not exactly hard for Nintendo. Wii U console sales itself is a different story.
We need a gif now.
Yeah but he's successfully turned it around. That's called being a good CEO.
He did there's no lie. But gorl that WiiU rn its in the exact same situation. Making the same mistake twice isnt being a good CEO
Ninja Scooter
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and then stuck his head in the sand and despite all the writing on the all, proceeded to repeat the exact same mistakes just a few months later when the Wii U launched. That's called being a bad CEO.
Launching a handheld and console at overpriced amounts with no games is not being a good CEO.
Nintendo was unprepared for both and that's on Iwata
KillerTravis
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I don't know who seriously expected he was going to resign.
Winterfang
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Can someone please photoshop iwata's face on Aizen?
w1gglyjones
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This is great news, if only to piss off the people looking forward to his resignation.
Yes. The delicious tears!
"Oh, you seem to misunderstand me. You see... I have no intention of resigning."
*claps twice*
