Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa sees 95.47 % approval rating (up from 92.04 %)

Rösti · Jun 30, 2020

Shuntaro Furukawa, president of Nintendo Co., adjusts his spectacles during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. Nintendo cut its outlook for annual Switch shipments, the strongest sign yet that the hybrid console is struggling to attract a wider swath of users and become a worthy successor to the Wii. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Disclaimer:Above image caption is from February, 2019. I included it just for reference while crediting the photographer.

Today, on June 30, 2020, the voting results of Proposal No. 2 (Election of Five Directors) of Nintendo's 80th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders was announced. The proposal was approved and resolved as originally proposed. The five candidates, Shuntaro Furukawa, Shigeru Miyamoto, Shinya Takahashi, Ko Shiota and Satoru Shibata were elected and assume office as Directors. Last year, President Furukawas approval rating was 92.04 %: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2019/190701.pdf

Below are the voting results:

Shuntaro Furukawa
In favor: 937,392
Against: 41,324
Abstained: 245
Approval rate: 95.47 %

Shigeru Miyamoto
In favor: 965,332
Against: 12,059
Abstained: 1,575
Approval rate: 98.32 %

Shinya Takahashi
In favor: 965,552
Against: 11,834
Abstained: 1,575
Approval rate: 98.34 %

Ko Shiota
In favor: 965,559
Against: 11,827
Abstained: 1,575
Approval rate: 98.34 %

Satoru Shibata
In favor: 965,553
Against: 11,833
Abstained: 1,575
Approval rate: 98.34 %

Source: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2020/200630.pdf

Raccoon · Jun 30, 2020

imagine having the balls to vote against Miyamoto

Spine Crawler · Jun 30, 2020

Raccoon said:
imagine having the balls to vote against Miyamoto

if nintendo was run by the internet miyamoto would have been fired years ago

Glio · Jun 30, 2020

Spine Crawler said:
if nintendo was run by the internet miyamoto would have been fired years ago

A few fans of two Paper Mario games don't make up the entire internet.

Dekuman · Jun 30, 2020

Furukawa is said to be a numbers guy not a developer so this will be the first time since the Yamauchi days to have a non gamer in charge

Will be interesting to see if how it will impact the successor design and positioning

Galava · Jun 30, 2020

Spine Crawler said:
if nintendo was run by the internet miyamoto would have been fired years ago

I feel relieved the internet doesn't run companies.

ElectricBlanketFire · Jun 30, 2020

They can announce/release no new games the rest of the year and be perfectly fine.

Reinhardt Schneider · Jun 30, 2020

Dekuman said:
Furukawa is said to be a numbers guy not a developer so this will be the first time since the Yamauchi days to have a non gamer in charge

I remember Furukawa calling himself a gamer at his presentation?

Anyways, Kimishima was also a numbers guy iirc. Iwata was the anomaly.

LunaSerena · Jun 30, 2020

Dekuman said:
Furukawa is said to be a numbers guy not a developer so this will be the first time since the Yamauchi days to have a non gamer in charge

Will be interesting to see if how it will impact the successor design and positioning

Wasn't the guy who succeded Iwata from a non-developer background? If I'm not remembering wrong, he was a finance guy who even spend some time at the bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi

hussien-11 · Jun 30, 2020

Glio said:
A few fans of two Paper Mario games don't make up the entire internet.

What about fans of online gaming..

Empyrean Cocytus · Jun 30, 2020

Glio said:
A few fans of two Paper Mario games don't make up the entire internet.

Miyamoto doesn't do the Paper Mario games, that's all Intelligent Systems. What Spine Crawler is referring to is that he was one of the big leaders of the charge into casual games, since a lot of them were based on his hobbies - Wii Fit, Wii Music, Brain Age, the Personal Trainer games, Art Academy, etc.

hannybunny24 · Jun 30, 2020

Rösti said:
"Nintendo cut its outlook for annual Switch shipments, the strongest sign yet that the hybrid console is struggling to attract a wider swath of users and become a worthy successor to the Wii."

Another quality article, I see. Sigh, doomed.

LukasManak22 · Jun 30, 2020

Dekuman said:
Furukawa is said to be a numbers guy not a developer so this will be the first time since the Yamauchi days to have a non gamer in charge

Will be interesting to see if how it will impact the successor design and positioning

Kimishima was also business man.

Pancracio17 · Jun 30, 2020

Reinhardt Schneider said:
I remember Furukawa calling himself a gamer at his presentation?

Anyways, Kimishima was also a numbers guy iirc. Iwata was the anomaly.

Theres no way he doesnt actually play games, he runs a game company after all. Maybe he is simply less so of a gamer than past presidents (or its just a baseless internet rumour).

Empyrean Cocytus · Jun 30, 2020

hannybunny24 said:
Another quality article, I see. Sigh, doomed.

It's like people are just ignoring the gigantic pandemic going on.

Tach · Jun 30, 2020

Empyrean Cocytus said:
Miyamoto doesn't do the Paper Mario games, that's all Intelligent Systems. What Spine Crawler is referring to is that he was one of the big leaders of the charge into casual games, since a lot of them were based on his hobbies - Wii Fit, Wii Music, Brain Age, the Personal Trainer games, Art Academy, etc.

The bolded are classics, it just that the heretics where to silly to understand such complexity. :D

Glio · Jun 30, 2020

Empyrean Cocytus said:
Miyamoto doesn't do the Paper Mario games, that's all Intelligent Systems. What Spine Crawler is referring to is that he was one of the big leaders of the charge into casual games, since a lot of them were based on his hobbies - Wii Fit, Wii Music, Brain Age, the Personal Trainer games, Art Academy, etc.

I know perfectly well, but all the threads about Paper Mario end up degenerating into hatred for Miyamoto.

julian · Jun 30, 2020

Furukawa: One day I will get to 98%....

Deleted member 19702 · Jun 30, 2020

Outside of the radio silence strategy regarding announcements, this tenure is doing a great job, the ratings are well deserved.

Helix · Jun 30, 2020

it's like polls for a video game company. I like those polls.

cw_sasuke · Jun 30, 2020

ElectricBlanketFire said:
They can announce/release no new games the rest of the year and be perfectly fine.

Yeah, it's scary....Switch reached the numbers of Nintendo evergreen where they could be just fine by just providing updates to their already released big games.

Thankfully they are still going to release new titles.

LunaSerena · Jun 30, 2020

The only thing they need to steamroll the rest of the year is to increase production of Ring Fit Adventure and give it a higher marketing budget. Sucess.

kodax_shc · Jun 30, 2020

Rösti said:
Shuntaro Furukawa, president of Nintendo Co., adjusts his spectacles during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. Nintendo cut its outlook for annual Switch shipments, the strongest sign yet that the hybrid console is struggling to attract a wider swath of users and become a worthy successor to the Wii. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images

This very confusing. Is this caption from Feb 2019? Or June 2020? Because it doesn't seem to have any business being in this topic.

cw_sasuke · Jun 30, 2020

SyndicateWars said:
Outside of the radio silence strategy regarding announcements, this tenure is doing a great job, the ratings are well deserved.

Why announce new stuff when you can't satisfy current demand ? This only result in more pissed customers.

Also them taking the wait and see approach makes sense considering Sony and MS have to reveal their Holiday plans because of new systems...Nintendo doesn't have to go all out until later in the year

DarkChronic · Jun 30, 2020

95% approval in the Nintendo party. Working hard! Thank you!

Rösti · Jun 30, 2020

Empyrean Cocytus said:
It's like people are just ignoring the gigantic pandemic going on.

That article/news item is also from last year: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/...nintendo-co-adjusts-his-news-photo/1091964740

I included it just for reference while I credited the photographer.

RestEerie · Jun 30, 2020

Dekuman said:
Furukawa is said to be a numbers guy not a developer so this will be the first time since the Yamauchi days to have a non gamer in charge

Will be interesting to see if how it will impact the successor design and positioning

Your first statement makes no sense..

Saying ' this is the first since the yamauchi days...' is so weird, as if there's a long line of successors between yamauchi and furukawa.

Nintendo as a video game company has only been lead by 3 president so far...with only iwata being an outlier as a 'game person'. Looking at this, iwata, the 'game person', is the exception.

RagnarokX · Jun 30, 2020

Pancracio17 said:
Theres no way he doesnt actually play games, he runs a game company after all. Maybe he is simply less so of a gamer than past presidents (or its just a baseless internet rumour).

Yamauchi didn't play games.

Empyrean Cocytus · Jun 30, 2020

Tach said:
The bolded are classics, it just the heretics when to silly to understand such complexity. :D

I'll agree with you. Except for Wii Music.

Deleted member 69771 · Jun 30, 2020

Reinhardt Schneider said:
I remember Furukawa calling himself a gamer at his presentation?

Anyways, Kimishima was also a numbers guy iirc. Iwata was the anomaly.

He plays games too, lol. A while ago he said he was playing Golf Story on Switch and that his favorite game of last year was Pokemon

Nairume · Jun 30, 2020

Glio said:
I know perfectly well, but all the threads about Paper Mario end up degenerating into hatred for Miyamoto.

Maybe someday people will read the actual interview that stuff all stems from and not just a few fansites misrepresenting said interviews to build a really silly narrative about his role with changing Paper Mario.

Lyrick · Jun 30, 2020

hannybunny24 said:
Another quality article, I see. Sigh, doomed.

That's a quote from a Bloomberg piece from JAN 2019, not really sure why it's being reused...

Nintendo Switch Sputtering Less Than Two Years After Debut

Nintendo Co. cut its outlook for annual Switch shipments, the strongest sign yet that the hybrid console is struggling to attract a wider swath of users and become a worthy successor to the Wii.

www.bloomberg.com

Tom Nook · Jun 30, 2020

95% while the others are 98%. Pathetic. LOL

RestEerie · Jun 30, 2020

Pancracio17 said:
Theres no way he doesnt actually play games, he runs a game company after all. Maybe he is simply less so of a gamer than past presidents (or its just a baseless internet rumour).

Don't think it's possible to be less of a gamer than past president. He obviously can't be compared to iwata in terms of gaming knowledge and experience so there's only yamauchi to compare then...and i don't think it's possible to have even less of an interest in games than yamauchi. The guy famously didn't play any of the games Nintendo produced.

RagnarokX · Jun 30, 2020

kodax_shc said:
This very confusing. Is this caption from Feb 2019? Or June 2020? Because it doesn't seem to have any business being in this topic.

It's illustrating why his approval went up. In 2019 interest in Switch was waning. In 2020 it's an unstoppable force. Of course there are major confounding variables contributing to that success...

Deleted member 36708 · Jun 30, 2020

I say wait until they make their next move to make a judgement. What comes next after the switch and how it performs will be telling. We shall see.

RagnarokX · Jun 30, 2020

Tron1 said:
I say wait until they make their next move to make a judgement. What comes next after the switch and how it performs will be telling. We shall see.

Aye. We're still in stuff Iwata planned.

BronzeWolf · Jun 30, 2020

Only 95%?

Bro be slipping.

Tach · Jun 30, 2020

Empyrean Cocytus said:
I'll agree with you. Except for Wii Music.

Empyren Cocytus, I now see you as kin.

Safe journeys, my brother. :D

Dekuman · Jun 30, 2020

Reinhardt Schneider said:
I remember Furukawa calling himself a gamer at his presentation?

Anyways, Kimishima was also a numbers guy iirc. Iwata was the anomaly.

LukasManak22 said:
Kimishima was also business man.

He was president of NOA under Iwata, but his tenure as President of NCL was more of a caretaker role after Iwata passed as the Switch design and development was in place by then, he stepped down soon after Switch launched.

RestEerie said:
Your first statement makes no sense..

Saying ' this is the first since the yamauchi days...' is so weird, as if there's a long line of successors between yamauchi and furukawa.

Nintendo as a video game company has only been lead by 3 president so far...with only iwata being an outlier as a 'game person'. Looking at this, iwata, the 'game person', is the exception.

That's fair there hasn't been that many Nintendo presidents, i'm more highlighting the fact we've been used to quirky Nintendo that's strongly driven by developer input. Even under Yamauchi, he likes to arbitrarily pick winners and he's often right about products.

Furukawa seems more hands off so I was trying to contrast that with how Nintendo operated in the past. Maybe nothing will be different, but it may inform how they approach the generational transition, which I have to say, hasn't been Nintendo's strong suit, in part because they often take the road less travelled. Maybe we'll just get a straight up Switch 2 this time.

Glio · Jun 30, 2020

Nairume said:
Maybe someday people will read the actual interview that stuff all stems from and not just a few fansites misrepresenting said interviews to build a really silly narrative about his role with changing Paper Mario.

People need someone specific to hate.

Deleted member 10737 · Jun 30, 2020

furukawa when he sees those 4.53%

Metal Gear Miyamoto · Jun 30, 2020

hannybunny24 said:
Another quality article, I see. Sigh, doomed.

Ignore it. Bloomberg has a well documented history of hacky hitpieces they publish surrounding Nintendo. They're worse then the likes of Pachter.

Thatguy · Jun 30, 2020

Nintendo has done well with Switch. But I don't think their future looks strong. They're just a portable console maker now. New consoles are coming and Switch won't be the fresh thing anymore. So now what does Nintendo do? Just a better Switch? I think game streaming services are going to hit their stride this gen. Suddenly every phone, tablet, and PC will be able to stream super high end core games. So their 'portable core gaming' angle will shrink. I see another generation of Switch hardware for them, but I'm not so sure the market will be there this time. Nintendo software alone is not enough to carry them. Maybe they just become Sega and do software/movies only.

Oregano · Jun 30, 2020

Thatguy said:
Nintendo has done well with Switch. But I don't think their future looks strong. They're just a portable console maker now. New consoles are coming and Switch won't be the fresh thing anymore. So now what does Nintendo do? Just a better Switch? I think game streaming services are going to hit their stride this gen. Suddenly every phone, tablet, and PC will be able to stream super high end core games. So their 'portable core gaming' angle will shrink. I see another generation of Switch hardware for them, but I'm not so sure the market will be there this time. Nintendo software alone is not enough to carry them. Maybe they just become Sega and do software/movies only.

I thought mobile already killed portables about 10 years ago?

Streaming really is a threat though, look how Stadia is doing!

Zedark · Jun 30, 2020

Thatguy said:
Nintendo has done well with Switch. But I don't think their future looks strong. They're just a portable console maker now. New consoles are coming and Switch won't be the fresh thing anymore. So now what does Nintendo do? Just a better Switch? I think game streaming services are going to hit their stride this gen. Suddenly every phone, tablet, and PC will be able to stream super high end core games. So their 'portable core gaming' angle will shrink. I see another generation of Switch hardware for them, but I'm not so sure the market will be there this time. Nintendo software alone is not enough to carry them. Maybe they just become Sega and do software/movies only.

This is a great copy-pasta, almost fell for it!

HandsomeCharles · Jun 30, 2020

Rösti said:
Shigeru Miyamoto
In favor: 965,332
Against: 12,059

I didn't know 1990's Sega employees held 12k voting positions.

Deleted member 202 · Jun 30, 2020

95? Preorder canc-

Nevermind.

Josh5890 · Jun 30, 2020

But I was told Nintendo was doomed!

EdGaltBR · Jun 30, 2020

Dekuman said:
Furukawa is said to be a numbers guy not a developer so this will be the first time since the Yamauchi days to have a non gamer in charge

Will be interesting to see if how it will impact the successor design and positioning

He is favoring Switch over smartphones. That's great.

Edit: Sorry for the double post.

Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa sees 95.47 % approval rating (up from 92.04 %)

▲ Legend ▲

What year is this?

One Winged Slayer

▲ Legend ▲

One Winged Slayer

Self-requested ban

User requested account closure

Mayor of Clown Town

One Winged Slayer

Deleted member 69771

Guest

SaGa Sage

Self-requested ban

User requested account closure

One Winged Slayer

I'm Your Favorite Poster's Favorite Poster