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Takes responsibility is different to saying "Iwata is shortsighted. Iwata set projections to high. Iwata didn't see things. Iwata stole my youth" etc. Also, getting rid of the board would be catastrophic for Nintendo. Nintendo are the gaming company we need. One who focus on games for the gamers. Not one who try to screw the consumer with anti-consumer practices, who throw things behind paywalls, who charge microtransactions like crazy on full priced games. As I said, so many gaming companies are circling the drain right now. Nintendo isn't one of them. The Wii U needs fixing, yes. This is not in dispute. However, clearing house at Nintendo is a foolish thing to even suggest.

Did you not read what I said? Again, you are putting the focus on Iwata. Do you really believe Iwata is the one who set the targets? No. That's not how it works. Also, decisions are done by the board, not by Iwata sitting on a throne dictating and so it's ridiculous to pin all the blame on Iwata.

Well, to this point, it has...financially anyway. In terms of output? Hells to the no

Recently and yes he did http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/03/30/a-hour-with-pachter-a-talk-on-ps4-xbox-one-wii-u-titanfalls-exclusivity-morpheus-and-more/?utm_content=buffere2c3f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer You missed what I am saying. Selling a console at such a significant loss just to get it to sell would destroy the company. It doesn't matter if market forces determine if it needs one, it's the fact that it's not financially feasible. Yes, the Wii U failed, but that doesn't mean Iwata didn't look long-term. Newsflash, sometimes products fail. That doesn't mean the CEO isn't looking at the long term at all. All it means is that things were misread. 3DS may be getting choked, sure, but it's still doing well. It's not selling amazing DS levels, but it's selling well and to say otherwise is wrong. So it didn't hit targets? So what. That just means the targets were too high. Also, yeah, we should get rid of Iwata and get someone like the Sony CEO who fires thousands of staff and sells buildings just to try and stay afloat for one more year. That's a great way to do business. Iwata is the CEO that gaming needs right now. So many companies are circling the drain; Sony, Capcom, Square. The latter two embraced mobile and it has screwed them over. Sony is collapsing even though the PS4 is selling well. Iwata cares about games, he cares about his staff and he thinks in the long-term. The only reason Nintendo are projecting a loss this fiscal year is because of expansion.

Unfortunately, people have been suggesting that. Pachter suggested they shift entirely to smartphones while building their next console. Investors, analysts and press have been pushing it too. It's ridiculous. I do agree though, things done like google's stuff is the perfect way for Nintendo to do it. It's spreading their brand and not damaging their games...if anything, it's calling attention to it, and that's good. That's what Nintendo have said they're doing, anyway. However, so many, including analysts, say it's not enough and won't be until they shift their output to smartphones as dominant focus.

Is it not best that we have some surprise left? I dislike how people expect everything to be revealed prior to launch. Leaves us with Smash Bros Brawl level disappointments. Yeah, and how well did that do?

I'm going to copy over my post from GAF too as it forms some interesting points that people, especially investors, analysts and the press miss. Have a problem with it? Fine, but let's not start a fight Regarding moving to smartphones See, this I don't get. Mobile is shown to not be that big a thing. Almost all the companies who have gone mobile have had short term gains that then suddenly drop. Last year, the iOS App store made $26b total revenue. Nintendo made $6bn in revenue. For Nintendo to stay where they are, they'd have to have 22% of the iOS market. That's just ridiculous Regarding a Wii U Price Cut People say this, and I can see the logic, but really that would be a horrific business decision and I would call for Iwata's head myself if it were to happen. That's why the FY3/2012 numbers were so disastrous. Think about it. At the moment, the Wii U is $299.99 with like $50 loss. Now, let's say it drops to $199.99 which makes it being sold at a loss of $150. Now, let's also say that it has a 3DS level turnaround and sells a further 11 million units in 6 months. That would make it lose $1,650,000,000. Those sort of numbers are not reclaimable through third party royalties or software profits. Those numbers are why Sony lost their PS1 & PS2 profits rapidly and why Microsoft are still very in the red cumulatively with the Xbox. It's really a thing that would be good for the consumer but disastrous for the company. Other What people seem to fail to realise, including analysts, is that Nintendo isn't in trouble. They have had one year of net loss. One. They have projected their second, but there's a reason for that. They have been expanding and a good portion of that expansion, financially speaking. is happening this quarter. Up to Q3, this fiscal year has been much better than the two years prior. It isn't up to the Wii & DS massive standards, sure, but it's doing better and turnarounds don't happen in a day. However, there are a few factors to factor in. First, Nintendo just had to drop $1b yen to buyback Yamauchi shares that the family had to put on the market for tax reasons. Second, for this quarter, Nintendo just shifted a further 15b yen into R&D and a further 8bn yen into Marketing. This amount essentially covers the entire projected loss. Nintendo are expanding. Expansion costs money. Spending money looks bad on the balance sheet when it doesn't have immediate recovery. Iwata looks to the long term. Investors and analysts only care about the short term, which is why they want to jump in on the mobile bubble which will burst soon, mark my words. Nintendo are fine. Iwata is doing well. Just because the Wii U is not does not mean the rest. Home console has never been Nintendo's main market anyway. Getting rid of Iwata would likely either result in a) A new CEO who follows Nintendo's philosophies. Nothing changes. or b) A new CEO who jumps into the mobile bubble because the home console isn't doing well. As such, they cannibalise their one successful avenue, the 3DS

Pic of the day. This may look like a side-scrolling action game, but it's actually one of the stages.

By mere minutes I'm still the Pokémon Master.

I'm at 119 now and really struggling

Simple. To encourage friendship, trade, social encounters.

Agreed. Though, the Sinnoh Champion is my favourite champion track Audio Fun fact, one of the hosts of Pokémon Smash, series Director Junichi Masuda and a couple of other GameFreak staff formed a band and actually did a song based on it with a music video

Metroid Fusion. Thanks to save states, my hatred of the save system is no longer an issue :p

Luigi might be thinking, "Who would've thought I'd get to show off the Poltergust in Super Smash Bros.?!" Wondering if it's going to suck something in? Yeah, it probably will.

Restaurant Le Wow in Lumiose: Triple Battle. Lucky Egg on the Pokémon you're training. Just before the battle, use Exp. Point Power on yourself. It'll last the entire battle. You'll make the money back that it costs (especially if you have an Amulet Coin on one of your Pokémon) to do, and you can get a Pokémon up 30 to 40 levels each time you go through. ====== For those of you in the UK, it has been announced by MCV that on this Friday, April 4th 2014, players of Pokémon X & Pokémon Y will be able to go to GAME stores and receive a Serial Code for Magmar for Pokémon X & Electabuzz for Pokémon Y. No purchase is necessary for this, you just have to ask the staff for the code. It is not known if these Pokémon have anything special.

Well, Lego The Hobbit comes out in two weeks, so not that much of a drought. Then, two weeks later NES Remix 2 comes. Not to mention GBA Virtual Console games. From the 8 we know we're getting this month, I'm getting Metroid Fusion, WarioWare, Yoshi's Island & F-Zero

To have over an hour's play rendered void? Of course it is.

Metroid's save system is fine in the 2D games, but in the 3D games it's horrifically antiquated and just doesn't fit. I had instances where I was exploring for an hour, died, lost all that progress. Had other times where I explored for a bit, there were no nearby save stations and I had to stop playing, so I traipsed back to the last one, and when I restarted, all the enemies had respawned (as they do) making all that exploration and progress useless.

I checked mine and they had PS3 & 360 stuff, with a small area in both for Xbox One & PS4. No 3DS or Wii U whatsoever.

Not to mention the horrific save system which is what drives me away from Metroid. :p

I'd say it's a part of it, but not all

Indeed Japan get Secret of Mana on the Wii U VC early last year. We don't have it. It saddens me.

Most racers you can lap, but each character has two close rivals and they are rubberbanding, and they spam items like crazy.

Pic of the day. Here's the Prism Tower stage for the 3DS version! The battle begins on ground level right in front of the tower. You'll have to climb the tower by securing footholds like these moving platforms! By the time you reach the top, the sun is already setting. The view from up there is quite a treat.