Probably knows about as well as you know that "you're a kid now, you're a squid now" in a shrill and annoying voice was responsible for its sales.
I'm not the one calling the commercial uneffective..
No, you were calling the North American advertising effective, though, so you're basing a different argument on the same information (read: none) and saying yours is valid because sales happened.
Despite the fact that every region marketed the game differently and saw equally impressive sales.
For example, please draw your attention to this infinitely superior Splatoon ad from the UK and Japan that we never got:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3GxpyOQHtE
This means more puppet Iwata and Miyamoto! Aww yis. This semester is going to be really interesting with their upcoming mobile games wich I hope they become a hit like Angry Birds but with the quality of Nintendo on their software.
Mario Tennis.
Mario Tennis Ultra Smash. And of course they'll have more than two games next year. Late 2015 Nintendo Directs are gonna be good.
Why is Takeda popular? Genuine interest
Is it because he designs machines that are low-end spec and therefore do not incur a huge loss per sale as the other consoles? Though I thought the Wii U was more costly because of the tablet...
Do we know that this is an agenda he is personally responsible for pushing in the company?
Because I'd imagine any good engineer is more flexible than that, and works with the restrictions that are given to them.
Why is Takeda popular? Genuine interest
Is it because he designs machines that are low-end spec and therefore do not incur a huge loss per sale as the other consoles? Though I thought the Wii U was more costly because of the tablet...
No. I'm just baffled by people who claim that someone deserves to be fired, with little to no knowledge of what their job actually is or what their responsibilities are.So you believe Nintendo's North American marketing efforts have been good, I take it? Seriously, I saw more decent Nintendo advertisements with a greater frequency when Cammie Dunaway was their head of marketing, during an era when they had a console that marketed itself. Not to mention that the ads we do see are mostly terrible (even the Splatoon ads are what I would consider "so bad they're good") and he's the one signing off on that stuff. It's not a matter of opinion on the subject. He has one job and he's doing it badly.
Look at his Wiki article. He has quotes as far back as 2002 that seem to indicate it his personal philosophy.
Like people have said, there is a middle ground.
To his credit, I think he wants both power efficiency and performance. He was able to achieve both for GameCube. But I think it might not be as feasible now?
You must not be familiar with Gunpei Yokoi and the Game Boy, who made this philosophy famous and successful.
I just need Takeda to be fired. I don't need another Console by him (even though at this point it's already too late)
Man, I completely forgot about that game.
The token sports game to get us through the painful end.
I don't think you actually know what you're saying. You think if Takeda weren't there Nintendo would suddenly churn out a PS4? lol please...
I don't think you actually know what you're saying. You think if Takeda weren't there Nintendo would suddenly churn out a PS4? lol please...