Topic: Iwata Taking 50 Percent Pay Cut Over 3DS Sales

[Lady Mushroom]

Iwata-san is wise and noble. I feel happy that Nintendo is in his hands.


Strange that they picked a showman like Reggie to head up NoA - quite the opposite. I guess they thought that is what Westerners like, and sadly, it seems they are right.

[Flipster]

Iwata-san is wise and noble. I feel happy that Nintendo is in his hands.


Strange that they picked a showman like Reggie to head up NoA - quite the opposite. I guess they thought that is what Westerners like, and sadly, it seems they are right.

To judge people on such trivial things as you seem to be is shallow IMHO. No offense, but what matters is how they're shown in their actions and I think there were a lot of "unsavory" decisions Nintendo as a whole has made as of late.

Also, why do you say "I guess they thought that is what Westerners like, and sadly, it seems they are right."? I mean I guess you could have heard a lot of fans say they like Reggie (personally I've heard mostly the opposite) but really who cares about how the figureheads appear? I don't know, maybe I'm just a little touchy because I am a Westerner and it seemed like you basically just insulted all Westerners, but as I said I probably just thought that because I'm touchy about the subject of being belittled for being a Westerner.

Anyways I do like Iwata, but it seems like between various things that I personally really don't like about the Wii U and the failing sales of the overpriced 3DS (which is now very nicely priced, IMO), it's a little hard not to look at one of the biggest decision-makers in the company as a sort of embodiment of a lot of the issues that the company has, too. As far as I know NOA and NOE both really don't have that much to do with the actual decision-making in Nintendo's big plans, just in the localization products and distribution in those regions. So unless I'm wrong and NOA and NOE really do play a bigger roll in Nintendo's decisions, Reggie is basically just an unimportant business man(?)

[Morari]

Also, why do you say "I guess they thought that is what Westerners like, and sadly, it seems they are right."? I mean I guess you could have heard a lot of fans say they like Reggie (personally I've heard mostly the opposite) but really who cares about how the figureheads appear? I don't know, maybe I'm just a little touchy because I am a Westerner and it seemed like you basically just insulted all Westerners, but as I said I probably just thought that because I'm touchy about the subject of being belittled for being a Westerner.

And this is why "Westerners" get belittled. XD


As far as Iwata is concerned, who cares? This is better PR than firing grunts, but the guy is still a millionaire with tons of hidden salaries byway of stock options and such. **** him and all the bourgeois assholes like him.

[gbuell]

Yikes.

[Retro Deckades]

The launch of the 3DS was completely bungled -- they rushed it to market without a killer app and without all of its features, hoping to cash in on their then-current fiscal year -- and now they are paying for it.

[NWR_Lindy]

This is a symbolic gesture to appease pissed-off stockholders. I wouldn't start lauding Iwata as a martyr.  His 8-digit bank account balance will have a lead digit that's one number lower than it would have been.

[ThePerm]

Iwata will gain whatever back in stocks, by holidays sales will be kicking, everyone will buy a 3ds and Resident Evil: Revelations. The fanbase will increase, his stocks will triple by 2013. He was talking in his stock q&a that and if i remember correctly he had 51,000 shares or something. On a good day thats worth 10 million, on a bad day its worth 1.6. They've been down because this is a dead year, nothing new the last year before a new system launches is always a slow year and stocks are usually down. However, after Wii and DS luanched their stocks went way up, hopefully its repeatable and not some bubble. 3DS and Wii U look like solid products so I figure in the next 3 years they should be profitable. I'm thinking the next stock price raise will start at e3.

[Flipster]

And this is why "Westerners" get belittled. XD

Uh, why?

[Chocobo_Rider]

This is a symbolic gesture to appease pissed-off stockholders. I wouldn't start lauding Iwata as a martyr.  His 8-digit bank account balance will have a lead digit that's one number lower than it would have been.

Martyr? No.

Rare displays of good-faith from executives that shouldn't be ignored? Yes.

[Urkel]

Iwata: (cries)