It's been a decade since his passing. how different would nintendo be if he were alive today?

>>715101985 (OP)
nintendo would have been dead at this point if he didn't step down

The joycons would have forced motion controls in every first party game and Switch would have flopped

>>715101985 (OP)
For one thing, I don't really know for sure if there would have been a Switch 2

Just imagine this but on Switch

>>715103004
He understood what nintendo needed to be to be successful post gamecube. Then he doubled down and massively overstayed his welcome.

>>715103004
True Nintendo fan here. False.

>>715101985 (OP)
I miss when the directs where fun.

>>715103543 me here
oops wrong one, i meant to reply to >>715102697

>>715101985 (OP)
Much greater chance I would actually buy their newest console. Current Nintendo legitimately pushed me to PC exclusivity since Nintendo was the last one I looked to for doing anything interesting.

Download my 3DS theme.

>>715104992
Enjoy your PC games, PC vegan!

>>715106585
>Enjoy your PC games
OK. Will do.

>>715101985 (OP)
This shit such a yakuza hit it isn't even funny. He didn't have a terminal cancer and it was right when Nintendo was at its worst. Conveniently they stopped associating with them around this time ten years ago. Really makes you think.

>>715105901
I shan't. Cute butt though.

>>715101985 (OP)
They would make games instead of movies. But the industry would hate them more. Less sales better products

>>715101985 (OP)
He would shit the switch 2 like he shitted wiiu

>>715101985 (OP)
it be shittier, unironically.

>>715104992
Switch was iwata idea

>>715109968
Reggie and Miyamoto killed the Wii U, not Iwata. Reggie because he thought the Wii grandmas were still around in 2012 and Miyamoto because of his gimmick obsession. Both used their weight to browbeat everyone else. The system failing meant they were fired and sidelined respectively

>>715110103
>president of NoA
>any creative power, at all
Switch was Iwata, that's why joycon waggleshit exists. Fittingly joycons are the worst fucking part about the Switch, because of Iwata stained everything he touched after 2009.

>>715110442
President of NoA had loads of creative power in 2012. The Wii was a bigger hit in the US than Japan, and Reggie took credit for it. He used that to push his influence on how it was marketed.

>>715110564
He's in charge of marketing to the US. He didn't design any hardware or any games retard.

>>715110039
Yes, and I have the OG Switch, just don't have any desire for a Switch 2 at all.

>>715101985 (OP)
Iwata sucked, Nintendo went to shit when Yamauchi retired.

>>715101985 (OP)
Iwata is the Paul Tibbitt to Yamauchi's Stephen Hillenburg.
>Both carried on a beloved legacy.
>Both softened edges to reach broader audiences.
>Both sparked a fan divide between “charmful old” and “corporate new.”
>Both had flanderization characters and stagnation
>Worst eras of their respective run was because of them

Reminder that Iwata killed the power Nintendo of America had in the 90s.

From 1990-2000. Nintendo of America had production and management autonomy from Japan. NOA basically culminated its own production team, along a few co-designers, and started funding and producing games with developers.

>DMA Design: Uni Racers, Body Harvest (Nintendo dropped it in 1997, Midway took it)
>Angel Studios: Ken Griffey Baseball, Buggie Boogie (canceled)
>Bits Studios: Warlocked, Riqa (canceled)
>Rare: Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, Goldeneye 007, Perfect Dark
>Software Creations: Ken Griffey Baseball, Tin Star
>Silicon Knights: Eternal Darkness (N64 version)
>Left Field Productions: Kobey Bryant in NBA Courtside, Excitebike 64
>Looking Glass Studio: Mini Racers (canceled)
>Mass Media: Star Craft 64
>H20: Tetrisphere
>Saffire Corp: Nester's Funky Bowling, James Bond 007
>DIC: Super Mario Bros cartoons, Legend of Zelda, Captain N: The Game Master
>Midway: Cruisn Series

Nintendo of America also procured the Ken Griffey and MLBPA license, NHL License, Kobe Bryant and NBA license, PGA license, Disney license, James Bond license, StarCraft license. Star Wars Episode I license. They were producing their own first-party games separate from Nintendo of Japan.

That all changed when Iwata transitioned from Global Marketing Chief to President. NOA Production was killed, and Nintendo of Japan's SPD Department took over all Western development (Star Fox Adventures, Geist, Eternal Darkness GC).

Henry Sterchi, Brian Ullrich, Ken Lobb, Ed Ridgeway, Jeff Hutt, Faran Thomason, and the whole crew left NOA to Microsoft and other developers. Since then, we've seen the Western model we have today. Western developers reporting directly to Japanese management, and pretty much making B/C sequels to Nintendo IPs.

>>715101985 (OP)
>Caused the Wii casual apocalypse which permanently maimed the game industry
>Gave Reggie immense power which led to dozens of games not getting localized, Nintendo NSider Forums shutting down and Nintendo Power moving away from NoA to outsourcing with Future Inc.
>Spearheaded the push into MTX despite clamoring they'd never do that with NSMB2 DLC, Nintendo Badge Arcade and Rusty's Real Deal Baseball
>Allowed devs like Miyamoto, Tanabe and others to run rampant since he was a programmer buttbuddy, leading to things like Sticker Star, Wii Music and Other M
>Didnt foster new IPs, favored funding for casual focused series and party games
>Responsible for NDCube, and Marigul being left to flounder with no more Custom Robo
>Responsible for the nightmare of Nintendo Directs which are glorified ads that ruin the internet with fake leaks, rampant speculation and fanboy echo chambers
>Responsible for the failure of the Wii U and the 3DS
>Responsible for the push to mobile, theme parks, movies and merch in 2015
>Responsible for draconian policies on YT regarding Nintendo videos and DMCAing fangames despite lying through his teeth saying he supported them """in theory"""
>Responsible for the Shitch, joycon drifting, paid online and shitty ROM netflix, as well as low effort ports and remake spam

B-B-BUT HE WAS LE HECKIN AWKWARD WHOLESOME JAPANESE MAN WHO WAS MY FRIEND! HE HECKIN PROGRAMMED SHITTY NES SHOVELWARE AND SAVED LE HECKIN GEN 2 WHICH WAS TEH BEST GEN EVER!

Kek, you fucking faggot Neotendodrones will never be true Nintendo fans. Yamauchi absolutely MOGGED this fucking faggot and youre all stupid for worshipping him. He was so fucking idiotic the yakuza had to poison his sake to get him bile cancer and die so he'd stop ruining the company

Everything wrong with Nintendo can be traced back to Iwata.

>>715101985 (OP)
Miiverse would still be up.

>>715110843
That's not what he said you fucking moron. He said Reggie was responsible for how it was marketed, and its true, he was the one that pushed for Wii Sports being a pack in game, he also came up with the "Wii would like to play" ad campaign which was a huge hit(and the boardroom japs hated.)

>>715110103
Miyamoto ok, but reggie was only a sales guy

>>715101985 (OP)
Should've died sooner. He ruined Nintendo

>>715111952
>Yamauchi absolutely MOGGED this fucking faggot
And he was chosen by Yamauchi to be nintendo ceo

>>715112767
Iwata was president of Hal Laboratory from 1993-2000, so chosing him as Nintendo president made somewhat sense, but he did fuck up immensely.

Nintendo franchises that went to shit when Iwata became president
>Mario platformers (NSMB + 3D Land/World sucked)
>Metroid
>Star Fox
>Paper Mario
>F-Zero
>Mario Tennis/Golf
>Legend of Zelda
>Yoshi
>Donkey Kong
>Wario Land
>Golden Sun
>Fire Emblem
>Smash Bros

>b-but all their best games were under Iwata!
Nope, Yamauchi stepped down as president on May 30, 2002, but vast majority of games released in 2003-2004 were already announced and in development back then. Mario Power Tennis for instance released in October 2004, but was Yamauchi approved.

I hope we'll have just as many funerals (on youtube and here) for miyamoto when he dies and a thread which will stay stickied for at least a month.

>>715113910
Miyamoto passing needs to be on the same level as Walt Disney passing at this point. When he finally is allowed to retire there needs to be a sticky thread for that too.

>>715101985 (OP)
Reminder that this faggot started the whole locking content behind amibos bullshit

>>715101985 (OP)
We wouldn't have $80 bing bing wahoos, for one thing.

>>715114146
I was joking, you braindead cultist...

>>715101985 (OP)
He was a far better game developer than president, his biggest issue being he was too lax and made developers like Miyamoto, Tanabe and Sakamoto ran loose without putting them on a leash.

Still better than Furukawa though.

>>715114564
True, the bing bing wahoos would be f2p mobile games instead.

>>715101985 (OP)
no

>>715101985 (OP)
He worked on Smash bros, yet allowed Brawl and 4 to have terrible gameplay.