Nintendo's President Hopes To Avoid 'Return to Arrogance'

Today Newsweek's N'Gai Croal has up an interview originally held back at E3, speaking with current President of Nintendo Satoru Iwata. The piece is an interesting look inside one of the top minds at a company that has experienced unprecedented success in the last year. In the interview, Iwata states that one of his most important tasks right now is to avoid allowing the company to appear arrogant. Just because people now assume Nintendo will succeed, he needs to make sure that's not the company's view as well. "This time, we were very lucky and very fortunate that people were accepting and positive about the introduction of the Wii Balance Board and the Wii Zapper. Now, what we have to do, what's very important for us is to make sure that when those products are actually launched, we not only meet their expectations, but we surpass them so there's that gap--we thought it was going to be this, when actually it's here. We need to create that buzz. We need to create that word of mouth and that's our challenge."

How about "Return to Arrogance"

[spitzak]

I can't understand why they don't want to don't want to do "Return to Arrogance", it sounds like a kewl game, though I am not familiar with the original game it is a sequel to...

They'd have a hard time

[Opportunist]

With competitors like Sony and MS in the console segment, they'd have a hard time to appear arrogant, so maybe they thought it ain't worth trying.

Re:Memo to all third-party developers:

[KDR_11k]

It's more about Dangerous Vaults [somethingawful.com] level crap or most of those "christian" videogames.

Re:Acceptance? Really?

[Goaway]

This was ridiculed by the Western gaming press.

Unlike, say, the Wii.