I just wish there was some way Nintendo could reanimate the corpse of Gunpei Yokoi so they could rehire him. He was the mastermind behind Metroid in the first place. It is unfortunate that his legacy has been hijacked by this upstart Sakamoto.
Oh god not this again. The original Metroid was mostly Sakamoto since he was the director while Gunpei Yokoi was only the producer. Yokoi was the producer since he was in charge of R&D1 and so he overlooked all the projects made in that team. But Sakamoto was the actual director who's responsible for the actual design of the game. By your logic, Gunpei Yokoi should be given all the credit for the original Donkey Kong instead of Miyamoto since Yokoi was the producer of that game as well.
Not to mention the only Metroid games that Yokoi actually produced were the first two for the NES and Game Boy. Because he was busy working on the Virtual Boy, he wasn't even able to overlook Super Metroids development which is why Makoto Kano is the producer of Super Metroid instead of Yokoi, with Sakamoto once again the director who was in charge of actually developing the game.
It's one thing to have a problem with Sakamoto's recent work, but to act like he had nothing to do with Super Metroid is just stupid when in fact he the one most responsible for Super Metroid being as good as it is.
Sakamoto should be sacked. Sack Sakamoto! Sack Sakamoto!
Oh yes, Iwata is going to fire the guy in charge of SPD 1 who's recent game Tomodachi Collection sold over 3 million copies in Japan and their game before that Rhythm Tengoku Gold sold over 1.5 million copies in Japan.
This right here is the reason why Nintendo's not going to ban Sakamoto from making Metroid games because he's one of their more successful Japan oriented game developers. Even if his Metroid games aren't bringing in big sales, his other games sure as hell are. So if Other M somehow caused Iwata to get angry, the sales of Rhthym Tengoku Wii and the eventual Tomodachi Collection 3DS will make them good friends again.
Plus even if Sakamoto was to suddenly start producing bomb after bomb for the next decade, he'll still keep his job because of the fact that Sakamoto is also good friends with Miyamoto. Sakamoto was recruited by Miyamoto to join Nintendo back in 1982 and his first game he worked on was Donkey Kong Jr. He's basically one of the oldest friends Miyamoto has that still works for Nintendo. The last thing in the world Iwata is ever going to do is piss of the companies most important game designer by firing one of his longtime friends.