wraggster
February 26th, 2012, 00:20
Nintendo (http://www.edge-online.com/filter/all/tags/155) president Satoru Iwata (http://www.edge-online.com/filter/all/tags/845) has hit out at Japanese news outlet Nikkei for employing what he describes as "gossip magazine techniques."
Earlier this week Nikkei's website ran a story which claimed Nintendo was looking to revive other publishers' back catalogues on 3DS, claiming oddball Dreamcast pet sim Seaman would be among the first (http://www.edge-online.com/news/report-seaman-coming-3ds).
However, it also apparently attributed to Iwata a quote saying that, unless Nintendo changed its ways as a matter of urgency, it would collapse. Iwata took umbrage at this part of the article, and vented his spleen on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/Nintendo/status/172300946716639232).
"On Monday there was an inaccurate report online," he wrote, according to Kotaku's translation. "This sort of thing has continued repeatedly, with no context, self-serving language, and the blurring of truth and fiction.
"I'm astonished to see gossip magazine techniques being used."
Kotaku points out, however, that Nintendo has a history of dismissing reports in the Japanese media that turn out to be broadly correct. And, given the obvious shifts in thinking at Nintendo following the poor launch of 3DS - a loss-making price cut and a reversed stance on DLC, to name but two - it's not impossible to imagine that Iwata might have said it, or something like it.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/iwata-slams-nikkeis-gossip-magazine-techniques
Earlier this week Nikkei's website ran a story which claimed Nintendo was looking to revive other publishers' back catalogues on 3DS, claiming oddball Dreamcast pet sim Seaman would be among the first (http://www.edge-online.com/news/report-seaman-coming-3ds).
However, it also apparently attributed to Iwata a quote saying that, unless Nintendo changed its ways as a matter of urgency, it would collapse. Iwata took umbrage at this part of the article, and vented his spleen on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/Nintendo/status/172300946716639232).
"On Monday there was an inaccurate report online," he wrote, according to Kotaku's translation. "This sort of thing has continued repeatedly, with no context, self-serving language, and the blurring of truth and fiction.
"I'm astonished to see gossip magazine techniques being used."
Kotaku points out, however, that Nintendo has a history of dismissing reports in the Japanese media that turn out to be broadly correct. And, given the obvious shifts in thinking at Nintendo following the poor launch of 3DS - a loss-making price cut and a reversed stance on DLC, to name but two - it's not impossible to imagine that Iwata might have said it, or something like it.
http://www.edge-online.com/news/iwata-slams-nikkeis-gossip-magazine-techniques