Topic: Adam Sessler: Nintendo Should Fire Their Top Management

Start at 0:43 to get to the point.

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What do you think about this topic? Personally, I beleive that as much as Iove Nintendo and the Wii U (I play it every day), I can't disagree with his position. Nintendo's humility and old fashioned ways aren't cute anymore, sorry. They need young blood in there to get some sales going. It's pretty much 4 -7 older guys running Nintendo and they just don't get it anymore. They're old fashioned to their own detriment, they need fresh ideas. Perhaps a new FPS of some sort. This being caught with their pants down at every console launch is tiresome. This is not a doom and gloom thread but simply some of my thoughts on the matter.

New does not always mean improved.

Well, he's right. Nintendo needs to fire the head honchos of Nintendo and issue in some new blood if it wants to continue in the video game industry.

It's that easy to understand.

I like the idea of firing people and encouraging some new scenery.

Though I'm not involved enough with Nintendo (they never call anymore!) to know who deserves to be fired. lol

Why does everyone think generic FPSes are the "hip, new thing"? I wouldn't mind FPSes if they weren't so linear and boring. See what you did there, "modern" gaming? You made shooting things boring!

Also, he completely overshadows the fact that Nintendo is a Japanese company. As far as I know, it's the Kyoto headquarters that make games, not America. Their "cutesy, humble ways" don't work here because of the West's mostly capitalistic values (capitalists are in for the money, and often vote profit over both quality and quantity). Humbleness is part of Asian culture, especially the Japanese. Miyamoto thinking his games are not works of art is because of these Japanese values; to him, they're nothing but the work he does. The east typically doesn't pride itself/flaunt its work in the face of millions; they just keep doing what they believe in.

Good things would happen if Nintendo made a cinematic experience out of Metroid. Combining the realism or personality from Other M and the gameplay elements of the Prime series.

If they had a Metroid version of Bioshock Infinite or something similar I would actually consider getting the console. They have most of the gameplay elements from Prime already, and they attempted a great story with Other M, if they could just improve upon those and package them into one game they would have a flagship FPS and everyone could stop talking about it. lol

I also know in advance there will very likely be someone that says both those games were great as is and they need no changing, like all other Nintendo games. My response is I am happy for you.

Sony Computer Entertainment says hi.

@pntjr Unlike Nintendo, Sony of America does have input. A LOT OF INPUT. Besides, Nintendo is a more traditional company. They're doing more than well in Japan; they're almost literally part of the local culture. As long as it reigns supreme in its homeland (or at least does reasonably well), then it can afford entertaining a smaller international audience without necessarily shifting tens of millions of units.

Although I hate saying this, I largely agree. Nintendo has been making some pretty bone-headed decisions for the past few years. It would be nice to see some new faces to make things feel "fresh" again..

I always get sad when we discuss things like this...

but if they did that then nintendo wont be safe in the future if they spend too much uneeded development money if it fails then they are done.

there is a reason they play it safe anyways beside they dont do any other divisions like sony or microsoft.

p.s i still want games like they been making since the begining i feel like brining in new blood while these guys are still around is going to change that.

That was nowhere near as uninfom[ed] as I thought it was going to be.

But I fear "Fresh Management" might mean someone who listens to the shareholders and their idiotic calls for Nintendo to put their games on the iPhone.

Then again, I feel confident that if Nintendo were to give Satoru Iwata the heave ho (or he were to resign), they'd replace him with someone responsible.

Change doesn't have to be a bad thing

Unless you think Nintendo perfected video games a while back and there's no possible improvements to be made.

no i mean the charm of thier mario games and so forth i just hope they dont try to follow the trend too much know what i mean?

i accept things are going to be different eventually i just think now is not the best time

Reggie is doing a fantastic job with everything here. There's no need to fire him, he's doing the best he can be.
Iwata on the other hand, may have dug Nintendo into a hole that may be too deep to get them out of in this generation, in regards to the home console. Pre Order sales are high for both systems and will continue to be getting better by Black Friday. Considering all they will have is The Wonderful 101, Wind Waker HD, and perhaps Wii Party U.

Oh yes. Let's fire all the head honchos and expect anything but good things out of this. What's the worst that can happen...oh wait

Also considering how Iwata has a 77% approval rating with shareholders....why does he need to be fired?

EDIT: I stopped at where he said Reggie needs to be fired. Mr. Sessler is clueless and I am done here.

Did anyone specifically mention Iwata? (I'm too lazy to watch that video). Not 'everyone' needs to be fired, but it's highly unlikely (well actually statistically almost impossible) everyone there is the best possible person for their position.

As for actual game development, that has more to do with devs and less to do with the corporate executives. Their teams of developers won't be radically different if someone on the business end of things gets the boot.

Why would Nintendo try to follow a trend with Mario? Mario is the trend. His face on a box assures millions of copies sold, regardless of how good it is (granted, much of that is due to games with his face on it usually being of very high quality.)

I don't think new management, if put in place, would change the "Nintendoness" of its products, since that's one of the main reasons Nintendo has been successful in the past (and why their products survive). I would think the changes would be more on the line of making Nintendo more efficient in its global structure. The things that its competitors have already established to help remove redundancies in their business model.

Also, I see no reason for Reggie to get fired. It's not his fault he was given a crappy hand with the Wii U. It's overpriced, has very few games on it, and the ones that are on it that are exclusive don't have the kind of appeal that make it easily marketable to people don't swoon over every 2D Mario game.

He specifically mentioned Iwata and Reggie. I don't understand how Reggie has full control over titles released, which is why I stopped watching. Adam Sessler is one of those ignorant people that has no idea how Nintendo is run. To be fair, neither do I, but I don't make this argument like I know how to run a company better than the CEO does...