The Group will retire its business unit-based organizational design and strive to establish an operationally integrated organization with the goal of revamping its internal title development footprint and bringing more capabilities in-house.
The Group will pursue integrated sales & marketing operations in Japan and make efficiency of publishing by consolidating the marketing functions that were previously spread across creative business units, expanding shared knowledge, and eliminating duplicate functions.
This is the most important takeaway. Japan is clawing back brand control from NA and EU. Which for our purposes is good. They don't say it's a response to DEI, but effectively that's what it is, pulling the eject handle and dumping the foreign business units because they're contaminated.
I hope your take on this is right. That's the path I'd like to see them go down. Screw making games for "global audiences," when all they wanted in the first place was amazing stuff you made for Japanese audiences.
This is the most important takeaway. Japan is clawing back brand control from NA and EU. Which for our purposes is good. They don't say it's a response to DEI, but effectively that's what it is, pulling the eject handle and dumping the foreign business units because they're contaminated.
I hope your take on this is right. That's the path I'd like to see them go down. Screw making games for "global audiences," when all they wanted in the first place was amazing stuff you made for Japanese audiences.
Now if only Nintendo would do this to NOA