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01Net's Fifth Nintendo Article: Iwata On The Ejection Seat
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Nuclear Muffin
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DavidDayton said:
That's what seems strange to me. Ubisoft are Nintendo's biggest western partner when it comes to their handhelds, so it makes sense that they would be shown the 3DS slide pad expansion, but the other info that 01 Net released could only have come from an NCL insider...
Still, I must eat crow. I had my suspicions about Iwata being on thin ice, but I guess this slide pad expansion nonsense proves I was right about that at least.
I still don't concede about the Pikmin/Mario Galaxy prototypes yet though (at least, not in the way that 01 Net were saying - about how it was stolen, with Nintendo just plonking in their character and having a full game practically already done)
Nuclear Muffin
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thuway said:
Well, the slide pad extension info (and the issues with the Wii U prototypes) could be coming from an Ubisoft insider (that's where 01 Net got their previous info from), but the Mario Galaxy/Pikmin revelation couldn't have come from there...
The Iwata on the Ejection Seat article, could be just speculation based on their recent actions and comments from their shareholders (which are made public). I myself have speculated about Iwata being in trouble before 01 Net even posted that article.
But that Pikmin/Mario Galaxy thing stands out as separate from the rest and doesn't really fit.
PdotMichael
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dwu8991 said:
I believe too, many things are just PR statements like the 3D stuff with the GCN.
Graphics Horse
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DavidDayton said:
Wasn't someone suggesting all this gossip came from Nintendo of France's previous head of marketing who recently had to fall on his Xenoblade?
The attachment is obviously something they'd show to select 3rd parties though, despite some people claiming it would somehow be kept secret from potential developers.
Nuclear Muffin
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Graphics Horse said:
True, that is a possibly. But he wouldn't have that kind of NCL related insider info.
Graphics Horse
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Nuclear Muffin said:
Honestly, everything after the first day's article was too boring for me to discuss in detail, it doesn't need to have been anything more than gossip, and I'm sure he heard plenty in his position.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Who's being groomed as the successor?
Has Yamauchi's clone reached mature age yet?
Has Yamauchi's clone reached mature age yet?
Prime Blue
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Not saying it's coming from there, but quite a bunch Nintendo of Europe employees know what's going on in Japan. For example, regular editors of Nintendo's official magazine regularly visited the headquarters and worked with the developers. When the editor-in-chief was asked some years ago if he had any company secrets to disclose, he said "I know a secret. But Nintendo would sue me to hell and back for that..."Nuclear Muffin said:
I very much doubt the 2DS was planned for a whopping two years.
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Holy necro bump!
McHuj
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At least.
You have prototype, test, line up production lines, and manufacture.
Edit: didn't check the original date. Lol.
Yeah, no. This is not a new hardware generation, but a simple revision. You honestly think they worked on the second hardware revision a year before they released the first one? If so, Nintendo has to be the most inefficient company in existence. No wonder that they are missing all of the trends.
McHuj
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It's not like everyone works on the same thing at once in the company. You have different teams pipelined and working on new designs.
I bet both Sony and MS are working on the console revisions now as well. I think you are severely under estimating the effort that it takes to deliver a multimillion unit consumer device.
If they actually let 1 man manage Nintendo and decide singlehandedly on all the major decisions without a say or approval from the board, I doubt they can solve anything by firing him. Large companies like Nintendo are run by lots of people - Iwata may be the one who signs off on it, but I¨m pretty sure that there are lots of people behind the scenes pushing him in various directions.
Or they have, at least, tons of rules, decided by the board, that decide what they can do within the various frameworks they are working from.
Or they have, at least, tons of rules, decided by the board, that decide what they can do within the various frameworks they are working from.
huh
Mihael Mello Keehl
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No 3DS is the new gameboy. Nintemdo never let a project die for good.
Samurai_Heart
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FTFY
Should really not bump up a thread from 2 years ago =/
Necrobumps are bannable.
PotionBleue
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Well reading old threads about themes that happen to be in the current news sure is interesting (imo). Is it bannable however?
Vigilant Gambit
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I know the FAQ says specifically not to post in threads that are older than a few months.
I also know that I read the OP, then noticed the date and got upset.
zomgbbqftw
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What the fuck dude.
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