17th January 2005, 4:45 PM
After I read that, it wasn't too surprising about finding that out. It's always been the case, and I'm sure the competition lets their American divisions (and in Microsoft's case, just "common sense"), letting the market itself dictate what they want.
NOA needs a lot more than just marketing freedom. They need to be able to develop independent games for themselves, publish them, pursue third parties here in the U.S. and of course, let the other branches of Nintendo do the same thing (remember Europe just used to be ARM, a distributor of Nintendo products before they became NOE?). In other words, they need to become an independent company, free to make its own decisions and get stuff approved. Will it happen? Dunno.
NOA needs a lot more than just marketing freedom. They need to be able to develop independent games for themselves, publish them, pursue third parties here in the U.S. and of course, let the other branches of Nintendo do the same thing (remember Europe just used to be ARM, a distributor of Nintendo products before they became NOE?). In other words, they need to become an independent company, free to make its own decisions and get stuff approved. Will it happen? Dunno.
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