Thanks for putting this into context. I'd like to apologise for going harsh on them. My anger and depression got too out of hand and made me go haywire while typing that comment. I respect your opinion, but I believe Iwata really did some great things during his position of NoJ president; cutting his salary and help building the relationship with Square are my favorites. Furukawa doesn't impress me, but I will thank him for getting rid of the YouTube partner program, if that was his idea or his decision.
No problem, I get it.
It speaks to the quality of his character, he was an admirable and selfless guy. But I had no personal relationship to him, ours was that of consumer, it was a business relationship, so that's how I qualify how he affected me. He had a vision for the company, and it had highs and lows, but both contrasted with what I wanted out of it. Furukawa's aligns more closely, so far at least, so I prefer his tenure. Though it's still so early to judge.
That said, Iwata was still key in the conception of where we are now, so it's hard to say where Furukawa will take us. Fwiw, if Iwata planted the seeds for better third-party relations (though to what extent... we may never know), the following two have very successfully cultivated them, at least compared to during most of Iwata's reign. I'm sure it wasn't easy following Yamauchi's "scorched earth" method of dealing with third-parties, but frankly, I don't think Nintendo did any favours for themselves until the Switch era.
In any case, it's ultimately akin to voting based on character versus voting based on policy. In my personal life, sure, I'd rather spend time with the friendly eccentric over the by-the-numbers stoic, but given how removed we are, I'd take a jerk who gets the job done over someone affable yet ineffectual.
