kotaku:
Earlier this year, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said he felt "strongly responsible" for a two-year string of Nintendo losses. Strong enough to resign? Um...
At the heart of Iwata’s tenure at Nintendo was a philosophy of listening.
In 2015, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata sadly passed away. Dear friend and EarthBound creator Shigesato Itoi compiled his musings as a tribute.
Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa recently sat down with Nikkei to discuss his approach to leading the company through the current Switch era, as well as what influences past presidents like Satoru Iwata and Hiroshi Yamauchi had on him.
nothing wrong with him per say but he just feels kinda lifeless compared to Iwata and lacks the tough guy almost Yakuza vibe Yamauchi gave off
This guy is a penny pincher and has no love of gaming. It is obvious in the half assed ports he is pushing. Iwata we miss you.
Yo?
I think he should step down get some fresh people into Nintendo with a different perspective especially on the hardware side of things.
The few years that Iwata has been chief, Nintendo has had enormous succes with the Wii and DS, but both of those were just lightning in a bottle, especially the Wii. The 3DS wasnt doing so great, from its games lineup in the first year, to the price and tech of the system. Even with its price cut the attach rate of the 3DS is a mere 3:1.
Then he managed to screw up the WiiU launch even worse with almost no games massive delays of said games, 1 of the worst marketing campaigns in gaming, even trumping Sony's terrible ps3 launch campaign. The pricing of the system being just 100-50$ below the PS4 just looks bad and its all because of the tablet controller. Now they have a very underpowered machine with a gimmick that doesnt attract people to the sytem.
I think he should stepdown before Nintendo forces him.
What Nintendo needs is new IP's. They rely on Mario, Samus, Yoshi and the gang for every game. Dont get me wrong love those guys, but I also love cake...doesnt mean I want to eat it every single day...
Yamouchi did 3 consoles (nes, snes, n64) and now Iwata has done 3 (Gamecube, wii, wii u). I'll let u guys decide who was the better prez. But anyway, maybe it's time for a new prez. He had his run. Frankly I think Yamouchi did it far better. But whatever. 3 consoles, time for a presidential rotation.
If only Yamouchi wasn't so darn old...
Bummer I doubt we'll ever see Nintendo make any big changes with Iwata still around ;)