24th February 2019, 9:56 PM
Well, marketing is most of the job now, since after Howard Lincoln and Minoru Arakawa retired in the early '00s, Nintendo of Japan took much more direct control over NoA... so it makes sense that another marketing guy would become the new head of NoA, unfortunately. I liked the days of a more powerful and independent NoA a lot, and wish we'd get back to more of that, but Iwata's centralized-control concept continues.
On the plus side though, maybe this has led to fewer Japan-only games? I mean, I'm not sure because there were a good number of Wii and DS games that stayed in Japan only, but more recently almost everything has gotten a worldwide release, which is a big change from Nintendo before. I doubt Reggie had anything to do with that though, he just sold the thing NCL told him to sell. (Sure, the Howard Lincoln way led to things like us not getting any Fire Emblem games in the '90s, but it also led ot things like the partnership with Rare...)
On the plus side though, maybe this has led to fewer Japan-only games? I mean, I'm not sure because there were a good number of Wii and DS games that stayed in Japan only, but more recently almost everything has gotten a worldwide release, which is a big change from Nintendo before. I doubt Reggie had anything to do with that though, he just sold the thing NCL told him to sell. (Sure, the Howard Lincoln way led to things like us not getting any Fire Emblem games in the '90s, but it also led ot things like the partnership with Rare...)
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