The Pikmin games are brilliant, but realistically, I can't see a new Pikmin game selling tons of systems. Same with Wind Waker HD. You forgot to mention Monolithsoft's big RPG and RETRO's new title, if marketed well, I think they have a good chance at being system sellers.
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Iwata to become Nintendo of America CEO, NoA CEO promoted to NCL Managing Director
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The Pikmin games are brilliant, but realistically, I can't see a new Pikmin game selling tons of systems. Same with Wind Waker HD. You forgot to mention Monolithsoft's big RPG and RETRO's new title, if marketed well, I think they have a good chance at being system sellers.
ShockingAlberto
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I mean, let's be honest. They're really hoping that Mario Kart 8 and a new Mario 3D platformer can drive sales.
I wouldn't say they can't necessarily, but those are the cards they're betting on.
tauroxd
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He will stay in Japan but orobably will spend some time in America now, not just for E3s.
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qizah
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It's not about one title selling units, though I agree with you Pikmin 3 likely wouldn't be a huge console seller. However, they need to build the library and diversify the library. They have to, so the more core titles from Nintendo, the more units they'll sell and maybe get some third parties on board again (though it might be too late at this point).
Mario Kart was widely successful on the Wii so I'm guessing they think it'll make a large impact on Wii U. Though NSMBWii was too but the Wii U version didn't do enough to keep sales going.
DragonSworne
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I hope Iwata's first decision day 1 as CEO of NoA is firing Reggie and Scott Moffitt.
$60 games aren't selling very well right now.. just because you throw great quality software won't necessarily change the forecast... the industry is in an amazing funk right now.. they should drop the price of their games to $50 as incentive to sell some units and any amount of price drop even if they continue to lose per unit but not more than what they were losing from the beginning.. I really think it's one of the few ways to compete if things don't turn around by the end of this year... I'm really interested to see how PS/MS fair... I would have to think not very good based on the software sales with massive install bases... the fatigue level is high.. 8-9 year cycle was a terrible idea and has really hurt the industry.. now they going to repeat it again.... Nintendo will stick to a five maybe six year cycle.. hybrid console/portable in the future for them..
Aquamarine
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Satoru Iwata - 51 Years Old, been with Nintendo since 1981
Yoshihiro Mori (retiring this year) - 66 Years Old, been with Nintendo since 1969
Shinji Hatano - 69 Years Old, been with Nintendo since 1972
Genyo Takeda - 62 Years Old, been with Nintendo since 1972
Shigeru Miyamoto - 58 Years Old, been with Nintendo since 1977
Nobuo Nagai (deceased February 2012) - 66 Years Old at time of death, been with Nintendo since 1967
Masaharu Matsumoto (retiring this year) - 69 Years Old, been with Nintendo since 1994
Eiichi Suzuki - 61 Years Old, been with Nintendo since 2001
Tatsumi Kimishima - 62 Years Old, been with Nintendo since 2000
Kaoru Takemura - 65 Years Old, been with Nintendo since 1973
Indeed. I expect the bolded to be retiring within the next couple of years.
Pretty much. I don't get why people think this means more Japanese only games will suddenly come out here or there will be more western collaborations as a result. Iwata didn't need to be Noa CEO to accomplish either of those things.
I expect business as usual.
Perfect Blue
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When is the investor conference thing?
lordfroakie
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But Scott Moffitt doesn't have plastic surgery looking lips, Iwata should keep him
AndrewDean84xX
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I heard that if Iwata becomes the President of NOE as well, he can never lose at rock, paper, scissors ever again. EVER!
Aquamarine
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Should be around this time:
FY 2013 Briefing (Q&A, Presentation, Outline, Supplementary Info) schedule:
TENTATIVE TIME, NOT FINAL
London * Thu 2:00 AM BST
Paris * Thu 3:00 AM CEST
Los Angeles * Wed 6:00 PM PDT
New York * Wed 9:00 PM EDT
Chicago * Wed 8:00 PM CDT
For other major cities / time zones, go here:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Nintendo+FY+2013+Briefing+Release&iso=20130425T10&p1=538
Iwata becoming CEO of all divisions is part of his plan to bring us Mother 3.
You can tell in last week's Nintendo Direct that he was taking the whole bringing Earthbound to NA/Europe VC very personally. Dude clearly considers Mother his magnum opus from his HAL programmer days.
You can tell in last week's Nintendo Direct that he was taking the whole bringing Earthbound to NA/Europe VC very personally. Dude clearly considers Mother his magnum opus from his HAL programmer days.
vagabondarts
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Totally agree. bleach the current mindset at NOA and relieve the people they've brought with them as well.
What does a guy that shaved millimeters off of every dial bar sold at the supermarket while making it look the same size as before know about selling video games? Get these people out of here with all of their heavy handed forced meme marketing and crap.
Normally when people talk about Japan, they use the word Japan in their post. Or they say something like "the 3DS is killing it in one small territory, which isn't enough to make up for its disappointing performance in the other 90% of the world gaming market".
But that wouldn't make a ton of sense in the context of the discussion, which was basically EloquentM claiming things aren't as bad as the Wii U makes them look, because ...
Irate is power hungry and incompetent.
His personal vanity and quest for miyamotoesque Internet fame and glory is killing Nintendo.
They need to sack this bafoon not give him more power. Nintendo need to decentralise power not what they have been doing.
Iwata's idea of management is less innovation and more micro management of staff and subsidiaries. He's stifling nintnedos innovation.
That rot started to sink in when he took on more roles and responsibilities and will only continue now that he is now running the show in America.
He is barely running Japan right now.
Nintendo is doomed.
His personal vanity and quest for miyamotoesque Internet fame and glory is killing Nintendo.
They need to sack this bafoon not give him more power. Nintendo need to decentralise power not what they have been doing.
Iwata's idea of management is less innovation and more micro management of staff and subsidiaries. He's stifling nintnedos innovation.
That rot started to sink in when he took on more roles and responsibilities and will only continue now that he is now running the show in America.
He is barely running Japan right now.
Nintendo is doomed.
It's interesting in that of Nintendo's lineup most of them don't have the expectation to really drive sales. Popular sequels of old gen games just don't tend to do that. But the question is if there's a wildcard. The most popular games on a console are nearly always unexpected. Nobody was expecting AC to destroy Japan like it did, nobody was expecting Call of Duty to post extreme numbers either, nobody could predict a GTA revival would be the most important game for PS2, or that Wii Fit would take the world by storm. To say Nintendo will hit their goals and really turn it around depends on how much you expect the unexpected, because these aren't the type of things we can see coming.
There's also a secondary effect though. Lots of not-quite hits with good reputation tend to drive up baselines. People buy and systems exploded on a few particular games but what really propels long-term sales is overall library. Nintendoland didn't drive sales like expected, Game and Wario drove little, Pikmin might drive little, W101 will probably drive little, Bayonetta 2 might not drive much, Wii Play, Wii Fit U, Windwaker, 3d Mario etc. But by the time you get past all those and look back it's harder to not feel the system has value and the length of the ledge people stand on before taking the plunge shortens.
As long as Iwata can get at least one driver and the rest hold up to gamer expectations then they will pull it off I think.
There's also a secondary effect though. Lots of not-quite hits with good reputation tend to drive up baselines. People buy and systems exploded on a few particular games but what really propels long-term sales is overall library. Nintendoland didn't drive sales like expected, Game and Wario drove little, Pikmin might drive little, W101 will probably drive little, Bayonetta 2 might not drive much, Wii Play, Wii Fit U, Windwaker, 3d Mario etc. But by the time you get past all those and look back it's harder to not feel the system has value and the length of the ledge people stand on before taking the plunge shortens.
As long as Iwata can get at least one driver and the rest hold up to gamer expectations then they will pull it off I think.
oh shit, so bernie stolar said 'the saturn is not our future' to spite sega japan? what an ass. the system could have turned around in the long run.
Auron_Kale
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Probably the main thing I want Nintendo to finally release is a global account system for all of their eShop purchases. I just want one account and can get back all of my stuff should I ever lose my system or sell it to upgrade.
Perfect Blue
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Cool, thanks!
RurouniZel
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Yeah, because age doesn't factor into one's decision to retire in the slightest. Nope.
partyphone
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This implies that Iwata is some sinister hidden force. Which is kind of odd.
Dat salt/meltdown
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Your verbal diarrhoea is the most lovable and predictable constants of Nintendo threads.
lordfroakie
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Oh Sh...
It implies that Iwata has always controlled NOA, nothing sinister about it
Smiles and Cries
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oh so the total boring week ends in 9 hours?
they do annonce things at these meetings? I forgot the last one
They announced NSMB2 at the last one.
EmCeeGramr
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They also confirmed same-day digital releases at the last one, I think.
Smiles and Cries
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hgarrett54
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Don't forget Fantasy Life!
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Sometimes they announce things, sometimes they don't. I mean, their objective at these meetings is to assure shareholders DON'T PANIC EVERYTHING IS FINE, and sometimes that equates to letting them in on a game that's in development, or a release schedule, or something like that.
Iwata may extrapolate on some of the things we already know, for example the status of Smash Bros. U, what to expect at E3, and their end-of-year plans.
Fantastical
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I think it would be kind of weird to announce a whole new game, right? We just had a ND and E3 is coming up. Maybe they'll talk about WiiU and 3DS connectivity or something.
Or maybe they will reveal Retro's title to be like "See we got stuff for Western audiences."
I don't even know what I'm saying anymore things are so crazy with Nintendo right now.
Or maybe they will reveal Retro's title to be like "See we got stuff for Western audiences."
I don't even know what I'm saying anymore things are so crazy with Nintendo right now.
Fourth Storm
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Maybe they're hiding Wii U Sports behind the curtain and expect that to drive sales. The golf game did have a neat gimmick that could hook some consumers, even if it's ultimately just that - a gimmick. Gimmicks sell!
But optimally, they should be packing that game in (love Nintendoland, but it's failed as a packin) and slashing the Wii U's price by at least $50. Nintendo drastically turned against fan expectations when their highest priced console to date was $250. That is what families expect to pay for "Nintendo." They need to be around that price before things start to happen. Whether they can do that while still profiting, well, that's a different story.
But optimally, they should be packing that game in (love Nintendoland, but it's failed as a packin) and slashing the Wii U's price by at least $50. Nintendo drastically turned against fan expectations when their highest priced console to date was $250. That is what families expect to pay for "Nintendo." They need to be around that price before things start to happen. Whether they can do that while still profiting, well, that's a different story.
This is a TERRIBLE thing.
So, basically, Nintendo took someone who has demonstrated that they know next to nothing about the western market, what is trending here, what type of games we want, and how we want those games to be marketed to us....and replaced him with someone who has demonstrated, time and time again, that they know even LESS about those things?
I can't.
I just...can't.
vagabondarts
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It is the biggest no brainer in today's digital marketplace.
I might buy some special edition 3DS-es if it were this way.
As it stands now I don't see the point unless I'm keeping them in the box, which isn't really my style.
I also expect them to shed more details about Miiverse on PC/Smartphone/3DS, and eShop plans, mainly the "More open to Indies" stuff they talked about at GDC.
Smiles and Cries
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or he could pull out his iPhone is show the Miiverse update
E3 is going to feel so far away in a few days we will get nothing from Nintendo
what I want tonight is Xenoblade HD version
but yeah thanks for refreshing my memory EC before those Nintendo Directs these were the times we would hear anything from Nintendo
VGChampion
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This is a TERRIBLE thing.
So, basically, Nintendo took someone who has demonstrated that they know next to nothing about the western market, what is trending here, what type of games we want, and how we want those games to be marketed to us....and replaced him with someone who has demonstrated, time and time again, that they know even LESS about those things?
I can't.
I just...can't.
Nintendo's making me pretty happy these days.
It's actually America's responsibility to follow Iwata's way of thinking and not the other way round.
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