Iwata to dual-wield regional CEO positions.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/33989
In a recent press release, Nintendo has announced that Satoru Iwata will be taking over duties as Nintendo of America's CEO, alongside his current position. Iwata will be taking over for Tatsumi Kimishima, the current NoA CEO, as he will be transferring to Nintendo's Kyoto offices to act as NCL's managing director. Nintendo claims that the move "will support the company’s unified global strategy, allow streamlined decision making and enhance Nintendo's organizational agility in the current competitive environment."
Reggie Fils-Aime will be continuing his day-to-day duties as Nintendo of America's President/COO, but will now be reporting directly to Iwata, instead of Kimishima.
I think the fact that the guy Iwata's replacing is someone you pretty much never heard about until this point is important. My money's on this being meaningless.
My gut tells me nothing will change.Beautfully written. I don't think I could have worded that any better, myself. :) I'm in complete agreement with your gut, head, and heart.
My head tells me this is a stupid move and Iwata is taking off far more than he can chew.
My heart dreams that this will mean we'll get more localized releases, more VC games, and more happiness.
My gut's likely on the money, my head is probably not far off, and my heart is full of ****.
I guess Iwata's talk about stepping down if the Wii U doesn't get its act together was all talk. I can't see him even remotely thinking of doing such a thing after taking on more responsibility.
My gut tells me nothing will change.I think you're overestimating the duties of this position. What this most likely REALLY is, is nothing more than removing a redundant middleman between Reggie and Iwata. In other words, it's an efficiency move that's little more than a change ON PAPER, and will actually simplify things for Iwata. Any REAL duties that were previously done by Kimishima, will now just be done directly by Reggie... At least that's how I'm interpreting it.
My head tells me this is a stupid move and Iwata is taking off far more than he can chew.
My heart dreams that this will mean we'll get more localized releases, more VC games, and more happiness.
My gut's likely on the money, my head is probably not far off, and my heart is full of ****.
I will disagree on part of that. While yes it probably does remove the middleman there is a lot to be said about direct communication and taking away the Telephone Game.My gut tells me nothing will change.I think you're overestimating the duties of this position. What this most likely REALLY is, is nothing more than removing a redundant middleman between Reggie and Iwata. In other words, it's an efficiency move that's little more than a change ON PAPER, and will actually simplify things for Iwata. Any REAL duties that were previously done by Kimishima, will now just be done directly by Reggie... At least that's how I'm interpreting it.
My head tells me this is a stupid move and Iwata is taking off far more than he can chew.
My heart dreams that this will mean we'll get more localized releases, more VC games, and more happiness.
My gut's likely on the money, my head is probably not far off, and my heart is full of ****.
I guess Iwata's talk about stepping down if the Wii U doesn't get its act together was all talk. I can't see him even remotely thinking of doing such a thing after taking on more responsibility.
