Gonzo The Great
Banned
Do they ride out the Wii U trainwreck for a few more years and pray for the best? Do they put all of their eggs into one basket and promote the 3DS as much as possible? Unless the Wii U miraculously sold over 500,000 units in December, it's pretty sad that the PS4 has already surpassed it in sales based on hype alone. Although I have no interest in purchasing a PS4 at the moment, evidently other people do, and Sony should be congratulated accordingly.
As much as I hate to say it, there is literally nothing they can do short of firing Iwata and releasing a new console more powerful than the PS4 in 2015. Please take a look at the upcoming release schedule and tell me how they're supposed to turn this sinking ship around. It doesn't matter how good their first party releases are, as proven by the lackluster Super Mario 3D World sales; Nintendo consoles will continue to fail if they don't have sufficient third party support. The Wii was an outlier and would have sold well regardless.
It's time for Nintendo to abandon their apathetic attitude towards third party publishers, and release a more desirable platform for them to work on. The way I see it, this problem is not directly Iwata's fault, but things have only gotten worse under his reign. Aside from Retro Studios and Next Level Games, which get commissioned to work on Japanese IP, Iwata by his lonesome is responsible for shutting down all North American game development, making Nintendo even more Japanese centric than ever before. What they fail to understand is that the Japanese game market is shrinking, and yet Nintendo doesn't seem to give a shit. Hiring an American to develop the PS4 hardware was quite possibly the smartest decision Sony has ever made.
Nintendo still has the best developers in the business, but they're being creatively constrained by upper managerial goons like Iwata and Miyamoto. What hardcore Nintendo fans like myself need to realize is that calls for Iwata's resignation aren't intended to be malicious. You should be angry at Iwata for tainting a company that we have grown to love, not criticizing other people for pointing it out. Iwata is not Nintendo. Eiji Aonuma, Hideki Konno. Masahiro Sakurai, Takeshi Tezuka, and Yoshiaki Koizumi are Nintendo, and I'm sure they'd be much happier if they could release their games on a more successful platform.
As much as I hate to say it, there is literally nothing they can do short of firing Iwata and releasing a new console more powerful than the PS4 in 2015. Please take a look at the upcoming release schedule and tell me how they're supposed to turn this sinking ship around. It doesn't matter how good their first party releases are, as proven by the lackluster Super Mario 3D World sales; Nintendo consoles will continue to fail if they don't have sufficient third party support. The Wii was an outlier and would have sold well regardless.
It's time for Nintendo to abandon their apathetic attitude towards third party publishers, and release a more desirable platform for them to work on. The way I see it, this problem is not directly Iwata's fault, but things have only gotten worse under his reign. Aside from Retro Studios and Next Level Games, which get commissioned to work on Japanese IP, Iwata by his lonesome is responsible for shutting down all North American game development, making Nintendo even more Japanese centric than ever before. What they fail to understand is that the Japanese game market is shrinking, and yet Nintendo doesn't seem to give a shit. Hiring an American to develop the PS4 hardware was quite possibly the smartest decision Sony has ever made.
Nintendo still has the best developers in the business, but they're being creatively constrained by upper managerial goons like Iwata and Miyamoto. What hardcore Nintendo fans like myself need to realize is that calls for Iwata's resignation aren't intended to be malicious. You should be angry at Iwata for tainting a company that we have grown to love, not criticizing other people for pointing it out. Iwata is not Nintendo. Eiji Aonuma, Hideki Konno. Masahiro Sakurai, Takeshi Tezuka, and Yoshiaki Koizumi are Nintendo, and I'm sure they'd be much happier if they could release their games on a more successful platform.
