hydragonwarrior
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I'm sorry, but this is a poor excuse. It completely disregards the heap of mistakes Iwata has made that are COMPLETELY independent of the success of the mobile industry.
The Wii U is a travesty of a device with no clear focus, terrible marketing, no system selling games, poor 3rd party support that Nintendo continue to not fight for, a price too high for what it is, a laughably shitty OS, and an expensive controller gimmick that's practically DOA.
These are ALL fuckups that Nintendo can blame on nobody but Iwata's poor leadership and complete lack of vision. Not the burgeoning mobile industry, not the resurgence of PC gaming, not the bad economy. Iwata.
That being said, the massive success of the Wii is probably what is keeping him afloat in the company and why the higher ups are still OK with a wait and see for the results. I mean, because of Iwata the Wii was successful, so you have to look at it that way too.
I'm thinking he just really forgot about how to sell a new console aside from introducing something "different."