The people who have been in charge since Iwata died are more finance types than engineering types, and they are literally testing how high they can push prices without torpedoing demand. They have probably come close to that point with Switch 2.
Please, old jap, set NoA back on the right path.
The issue is the timing. Sure, he's been there a decent time, but you usually don't can the CEO of the subsidiary that oversees your biggest market this early. The console won't be 7 months old by the time he leaves. He's basically there through the holidays and that's it.
LMAO no it wasn't because "stoic doesnt translate well to westerners". Samus throughout the entire fucking franchise up to that point had been stoic. It's because it made her act completely out of fucking character doing shit that would make no sense even in the game it was supposed to become the retroactive new sequel timeline, you know super metroid, the one where she finds THE BABY. Someone who spent SEVERAL GAMES doing fucking anything to survive suddenly going "ah nope nope can't use my items I have that'd save me because someone said no" shit.
Yeah basicallyIt was literally just this.
Seems very true for developers up for sale (huge problems behind the scenes and/or the original devs feel like cashing out). With that in mind, it’s difficult to say “what if” in regard to the direction these studios would’ve gone had Nintendo brought them under their wing (For example, every productive studio Microsoft has bought in recent years either immediately shifted into producing slop or became stuck in an intractable development hell).
I guess we’ll see with the outcome of the lawsuit. I do know that the owners of a given piece of “intellectual property” have way more power in the Japanese system (e.g., Japanese streamers need to actually get permissions to LP vidja over there).Still, Japan's patent system isn't quite as insane as America's is it? I was under the impression (here I go assuming again) prior art actually has power there to deflect from retarded patents.
Never actually played it but Andrew Dobson liked it which isn’t the best sign.
All I've heard about this game is it is complete dog shit and it has Uma Musume Lyn in it
It's a mobile game so, of course, it will sell billions of copies and be immensely successful.
Nintendo’s stock price is up 47% year to date. Doesn’t exactly scream “failure” to me.
Thank God I never got into Fire Emblem. Because every time they add a new Fire Emblem character to Smash Bros my interest in playing a Fire Emblem game drops by another 10%
Only with losers like you and pedophiles. Who cares about those two groups? They'll sell millions regardless and now they don't have to deal with Smash players.
They used the characters of a Famicom-era tie-in manga as the plot of the game. Of course westerners hated it versus a continuation of Prime or a very plot/dialogue-light "3D Super Metroid", which is what it was pitched as.
I’ve never played fire emblem either. Love RPGs but FE never appealed to me.
No, people hated it in the west and east because it fucking butchered those characters. This isn't a "ah no western people don't understand" or "ah it's too japanese" it's just actual garbage dogshit nobody wanted or liked, and it was supposed to overwrite THE LAST SEVERAL FUCKING YEARS OF GAMES PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIKED as "non canon" to boot. Prime 4 being a thing in the first place is likely partly due to how fucking universal the backlash was to other M.
If the plan was always for him to leave, then why would he not stay through to next summer. That would be a year on the market and Summer is already a slow time. January and February are still busy and people will still spend in those months and games that miss the holidays get released then (and some companies like Capcom love that timeframe). You'll also have a Direct and likely hands on events. You can't even really evaluate how the holidays went either as the guy is already out the door. If it was amicable, then the timing makes no sense.
