1) Japanese companies, especially more insular companies like Nintendo (as opposed to more internationalized companies like Sony) do NOT promote from outside, not to their core leadership. This is not just about promoting foreigners from outside Japan, but about promoting people from outside the company hierarchy period. It's a very rare occurrence (compare to NoA, where Reggie was an outsider from VH1).
2) Pursuant to point 1, there's this well-researched thread from GAF (which we have discussed here before as well) http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=699964
Yellow = New to the board
Green = Moved up in the board
This means, as of now, everyone on the board owes their current position to Iwata, being either brought onto the board by him, or promoted higher in the board by him.
This means that, even if Iwata were to be forced out, this would only be a symbolic gesture, nothing more. Nothing would change, at least in terms of the leadership style or corporate culture at Nintendo.
This means that, if you are one of the ones who thinks that Iwata is the source of Nintendo's problems, then there are two alternatives which logically follow: A) Iwata is capable of fixing the problems that he got Nintendo into or B) Nintendo is screwed. There is no alternative. Nintendo's not going to bring in some "turnaround genius" from some other company (let alone some other foreign company). Nor is any realistically eligible candidate for the presidency going to do anything substantively different.
So please, for the sake of logical consistency, quit acting like Iwata's removal would do anything.
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