 Okay, so I know that this is a late or extremely early video for many of you and I apologize I normally try not to release videos this late or this early in fact I technically already created a video today at the time that I'm recording this but I couldn't ignore this breaking news I'm a bit befuddled so Oddworld creator Lorne Lanning Had some very harsh words to say about Nintendo and It's not so much that someone's critical of Nintendo at Nintendo Prime. I'm even critical of Nintendo at times But he had the audacity to say that Nintendo's thinking killed Saturu, Iowata or Saturu Iwata that Then Let's just get into his words here, and then I'll react you can tell probably already how I feel about the situation So here is what he said Exactly word for word. I don't have faith. I have no faith It's due to experience I see a similar level of success and here he's talking about the Nintendo switch Then they had with previous generations We you we by the end of the life of the Wii who else was making money? Aside from Nintendo how many titles sold for the Wii that worked How many titles sold for the Wii that weren't Nintendo first-party they started basically evaporating third-party support We get to Wii you same No third-party support you would think okay the switch. It's mobile. This is interesting How well are other developers going to bring titles over? Not very well because you're going to have to spend more time energy and effort to get it on that console an Underpowered console that's going to have fewer units in the market The thinking has to change the biggest problem. I see it Nintendo is the thinking Personally, I think it killed Iwata That he couldn't move the organization into a really successful arena It's a tragedy because Nintendo brought this business back We're all playing today because of Nintendo's valiantness that they when they controlled quality They had controls which are really part of its longevity and made the game business a valid space again Now those controls they really need to get 21st century about it and they're not just just I Have such a hard time taking these words in okay I have no problem that he wants to be Critical of Nintendo that he's being critical of the switch that he's saying you know the third party's basically aren't going to make Money in the switch and I mean Even if he's factually wrong like just wrong in some case like by the end of the life of the Wii Who else is making money aside from Nintendo? How about Ubisoft? I Seem to remember just dance still existed then and it still exists today And it's still one of the best-selling games and that game was essentially created because of the Wii Okay So obviously the thing I'm most upset about here isn't even that remark It isn't even the being critical of Nintendo switch because it's fine He doesn't think third parties have a chance at success which would include himself he doesn't think that third parties can succeed on the switch and I have some some counter opinions to that but Really? Nintendo's thinking killed Iwata Are you kidding me? It killed him because they he couldn't move the organization into a really successful arena So let me I don't I don't understand this thinking so if Nintendo's the only one making money on the Wii A hundred million unit seller isn't the fact that Nintendo's making money and it sold a hundred million units a Success for Iwata Went the fact the DS sold 150 million units a success for Iwata now look I obviously have been critical of Iwata in the past and I don't think he was necessarily the right choice for CEO and President of Nintendo of Japan and of Nintendo as a business and a company I don't think he was a very good person for that role But he was a good person overall and I don't think the stress of this had anything to do with his death I mean the guy cancer Can't sir. That's what killed him not The stress of the job. I mean everyone at Nintendo is stressed how much of a smile Iwata like Iwata walked around that place with a pure joy and a smile on his face Even when Nintendo wasn't doing so hot in fact That's what some media criticized him for is that even when Nintendo wasn't doing well You wouldn't know know it by talking to Iwata He you know, he just always seemed pretty happy I don't wow to associate the the downfall if you want to call that of Nintendo to the to Iwata's death is just inappropriate at best and Let's just get into some of the other stuff that he talks about here And I'm not trying to defend some some big fanboy over here. I just think that He's just wrong for starters. Nintendo started losing third-party sport with the Nintendo 64 But let's just let's be honest here when the PlayStation came into the market Nintendo's third-party support was basically cut almost in half on The n64 and then it was cut even more on the GameCube and then obviously cut even more on the Wii Although the Wii's did start getting actually more third-party support than the GameCube just different kinds of third-party sport You know different types of games games that catered to the market that primarily bought the Wii like just dance I already brought that up I'm just saying those are the kind of games that sold well on the Wii then you get to the Wii U Which obviously third-party support was cut even more, you know I don't get it like I really don't get how how focused he is on the Wii U and the Wii and Go comparing it with a switch because third-party support um Nintendo's been losing it pretty much ever since they lost the The market leader role right on the Nintendo NES and the Super Nintendo like Nintendo really dominated the market and even with the Sega Genesis doing well like Super NES was still widely considered the market leader And obviously got all the third-party games and once Nintendo significantly lost the market like n64 era We're talking like 30 something million units sold compared to 100 million units So like we're talking about an era where Nintendo Was not just behind the market leader. They were significantly like you could double the sales of Nintendo 64 And they would still be significantly behind the PlayStation So Nintendo, uh, there's a lot of reasons for this a lot of reasons that Nintendo lost their party support from sticking to cartridges when Sony went to desks to screwing up the deal with Sony and and walking away from that when really the next system the n64 Could have been like a disc driven system with Nintendo and Sony working together Which I think would have been ideal at least at that time Now I think a lot of things are positive of comfortable companies, you know having gone their separate ways but it's Okay, so first set this aside um I I'm just I'm flabbergasted right now that he even had the the balls I guess to to make these kind of remarks and I can respect his opinion that you know He probably will never support the switch because he doesn't See a market for him But I have to disagree, you know with his third party support comments That uh, you know with the switcher. It says oh, it's mobile. It's this is interesting How how well the developer is going to be no not very well because you're going to have to spend more time and energy An effort to get it on the console and under power console It's going to have fewer units in the market like does he not see that the switch is leading the market in sales and almost every market It's in right now this year I The switch isn't hard to support. You're just not going to support it with Necessarily the same titles that you're going to support others like like the 3ds is out in the market, right? It got plenty of third party support, especially from japan um, no, I I'm just I'm sorry. I I have a really hard time responding to this just because the guy had the balls to say that This killed awana. I Ma'am Anyways, you guys let me know what you think because at this channel. I want to start creating more conversations, right? I don't someone I I have a hard time reacting to this myself. So Just let's have a conversation here. What do you guys think? What do you think he meant? Am I taking this through literal? I have no idea, but I'm pretty flabbergasted at this guy's remarks not just about awana Just in general, um, I don't think he understands Exactly what happened here because what he's associated with the way we started long before those those systems even came into market Anyways, I'm Nathaniel of a dance from the center, but I'm trying to make this a quick update ended up being longer than I wanted I just I don't know. I'll catch you in the next one