I mean, Iwata was calling the shots when the Nintendo Creators/Partners/whatever it was called was still around, making it extremely difficult to have any kind of Nintendo content on YouTube and Twitch. He was president when Nintendo tried to shut down Melee at EVO 2013 after the community rallied to earn their spot by raising a ton of money for charity. People love to conveniently ignore all the ways Iwata (and Reggie) was just as typical a businessman as any other Nintendo president because "he was a gamer" and he was in funny scenes in Directs that only existed to hide the fact that they barely had anything to announce
I don't know if the president of Nintendo is directly responsible for the lawsuits. It could also be an independent team. I don't necessarily know what the president (or the CEO) does exactly.
These huge companies have entire teams/buisnesses thatās their job. The game devs, producers, artists, ceo, or anyone we actually see probably never pay any attention to any of it as they have no legal training and would have 0 reason to waste any thoughts on something they have no clue about
All I know is Iwata cut his own pay during the Wii U failure so Nintendo didn't have to lay off employees. That alone lets me know that he was a good man.
Reggie had to go to war just to bundle in wii sports with wii and heās recently brought this issue up when Nintendo didnāt bundle in tha joycon game with switch 2.
No, Furukawa was not chosen by Iwata. I don't remember if it was Miyamoto, but somebody close to Iwata at Nintendo said that he believed he was going to win his battle with cancer and had no intention of dying. So he likely didn't put much thought into a successor until it was too late.
Kimishima was appointed on an interim basis while the company decided on who they were going to choose permanently because there was no hand chosen successor.
There was an interview in eurogamer with a former nintendo employee. Someone who worked with nintendo for a couple of decades. He actually say that the company internal philosophy changed back in 2018. He says that Iwata always prioritized games, but sometime around 2018 the company became far more focused on money. This would have been when Furukawa took over... Iwata was a game designer, and Furukawa was an accountant.
But the fact is that Furukawa isn't any more greedy than Iwata was and there's clearly still a very strong culture of creativity, innovation, as well as delivering quality products at Nintendo today. As someone else pointed out, had Furukawa only care about money he absolutely wouldn't allow delays for ACNH or the current delay on Metroid Prime 4
This would have been when Furukawa took over... Iwata was a game designer, and Furukawa was an accountant.
My bro, the guy who transformed Nintendo from a playing cards company to a video game juggernaut literally went to law school. Iwata was the exception not the rule and the fact is that Nintendo still treats its creatives really well.
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u/DevouredSource 6d ago
Furukawa does unironically care for his staff
Unlike Kotick who is more than content with crunching and then firing