>>54856956There is no doubt.
>Pushed the series away from Switch because he was so insistent it would fail. If he didn't get proven so easily wrong Pokemon would have gone full mobile with GO and Gen 7 would have just been the final gateway to that shift.>Was the one pushing for Pokemon as a service. Bank was a compromise they had made with Iwata, HOME is the result we would have gotten with the dex cut otherwise. Current Nintendo leads aren't as involved with Pokemon and won't breathe down their necks as much as Iwata did.>Likely the reason for Gen 7's anniversary haste. Was concerned for Pokemon's identity with Yokai Watch and urged the series to follow in its footsteps during that time.This isn't to say the likes of Masuda aren't a problem, since even that is apparent if you look at gigaleak documents of how he handled GSC debugging or dismantling the Mario club. But even still, the head always decides the direction things go. It's a convenient disaster that Ishihara's and Masuda's management styles line up.
