Shifty,
You know, that's a very interesting line of reasoning... If Renseas is really closing down the foundry that's fabbing Latte, then you'd expect Nintendo to want to get in a last-ditch order of chips, since you very likely wouldn't be able to transplant the current design to another fab, and even if you could there'd be startup delays, there would have to be available wafer starts at the fab and so on. Plus it takes what, three months plus from start of production until finished dies plop out the other end. That's significant lead-time.
...Except now, wuu sales are so friggin abysmal that any additional chips Nintendo orders run the risk of being money flushed straight down the drain. Except, what the hell else can they possibly do?! They couldn't release a wuu successor within the next two years or more anyway even if they wanted to so they must have SOMEthing to sell; they don't have a superior hardware design ready (unless they're mad and developed multiple platforms and then deliberately went with the weak-ass variety), they don't have a software development ecosystem for an updated system either, and most importantly they don't have any games for anything other than wuu in the pipe either of course.
So the board knows this, and the stockholders know this also - or if they don't yet they will soon. It's a debacle all around.
Iwata may well end up getting fired soon.
You know, that's a very interesting line of reasoning... If Renseas is really closing down the foundry that's fabbing Latte, then you'd expect Nintendo to want to get in a last-ditch order of chips, since you very likely wouldn't be able to transplant the current design to another fab, and even if you could there'd be startup delays, there would have to be available wafer starts at the fab and so on. Plus it takes what, three months plus from start of production until finished dies plop out the other end. That's significant lead-time.
...Except now, wuu sales are so friggin abysmal that any additional chips Nintendo orders run the risk of being money flushed straight down the drain. Except, what the hell else can they possibly do?! They couldn't release a wuu successor within the next two years or more anyway even if they wanted to so they must have SOMEthing to sell; they don't have a superior hardware design ready (unless they're mad and developed multiple platforms and then deliberately went with the weak-ass variety), they don't have a software development ecosystem for an updated system either, and most importantly they don't have any games for anything other than wuu in the pipe either of course.
So the board knows this, and the stockholders know this also - or if they don't yet they will soon. It's a debacle all around.
Iwata may well end up getting fired soon.