What are Nintendo's mistakes anyways?
Ask Nintendo, clearly they are admitting to them.
But all jokes aside, Nintendo has made mistakes. Probably they have however been blown out of proportion, which usually most issues with Nintendo usually are when it comes to Nintendo hate. (I've been guilty of it myself).
I would like to say without a level of bias the mistakes that Nintendo has made in this Wii U, despite if you agree or not:
- Developing another underpowered system - Though some may say that shouldn't matter, wasn't it Nintendo themselves who said they realized the mistake they made with making the Wii underpowered? So if this is not a mistake, why is Nintendo admitting to it? To just agree with us? Even though power ain't everything, I believe being under powered is, because it's human instinct to find things that center themselves out, and usually things that center itself out as the weakest don't get met with praise.
- Poor advertising (according to Nintendo) - Iwata now states that the current failure of the Wii U is because of Nintendo overlooking the importance of making people understand what's great about the Wii U. Thus ruining expected sales.
- Not coming through on 3rd party support - Though on the surface this may be out of Nintendo's hands, and in many cases, it actually is, but the boiling point comes back to the very same thing I said about the last fact, Nintendo has failed to make people understand what is great about the Wii U.
So in conclusion, it appears very well that Nintendo indeed has made mistakes, especially if Iwata is admitting to them. The only possible way you can say they didn't make mistakes is that this all was one big unfortunate turn for Nintendo, and Iwata is wrongfully taking responsibility for mistakes that he and his company did not make (which actually can be possible, because under the pressure that Nintendo is in, it's hard not to take blame, even if Nintendo just may be right, the pressure is enough to make him feel he has to apologies).
So, beliefs can go both ways, and there is no real proof that Nintendo has made a mistake here, but what is real is that Nintendo is admitting to them, and that things are still looking very bad for the system. To say that they are doomed is foolish, but I will hold true to my beliefs that there is a lot of grey area that most people just do not understand.
So perhaps I'll quote Iwata and say "Please understand"
@LTM, the snowball reference explains things perfectly. Good call.
@Russ, after reading your message, the thought of Iwata's apology seems just as shallow as the mistakes he is apologizing for. I'm not sure what it is that you said, but I am further convinced of Iwata's arrogance. They are taking responsibility for making the mistake of not making people understand how great the system is, but are too arrogant to even ask themselves the simple question "Could we be wrong about the Wii U? Should we instead try and understand what our fans are saying instead?" But hell! Nintendo is partly right, the Wii U ain't that bad, but until Nintendo starts approaching to understand their consumers and their 3rd party support more, they can't possibly hope to make anybody understand Nintendo. This is not Nintendo hate, this is proper social science and business, if a company has no interest in what their fans are saying, but instead try to change fan's beliefs with "please understand", I can't possibly motivate a positive attitude here.
But... I am hopeful in Nintendo, and that's positive at least.
PS: I understand that you didn't say that Nintendo is not making any mistakes, so if you were asking a question to keep up to speed with Nintendo's situation, I apologies if I came off as a bit rude. I may have read your message incorrectly for it felt that you were trying to insist that my claim on Nintendo making mistakes was just a wrongful judgement. But after reading your message a second time, I admit I have no idea what you were implying. But either way, I hope I answered a few questions.
Edited by NewJourneysFire, 21 June 2013 - 04:45 PM.
