David Jaffe, the game director behind God of War and Twisted Metal, has said on Twitter that Nintendo president Satoru Iwata should be allowed to fail given his past success with the Wii and the Nintendo DS. You can read exactly what Jaffe had to say, below.

“Calling for Iwata to step down [misses] sight of what makes Nintendo great. You’d never get the Wii-type successes if you don’t allow a guy like Iwata to fail hard as well.”

“…that failure can be a sign that a person has lost ‘it’ and needs to go OR a sign that a person is still very much relevant and has tons of great work left in them but is taking the same sorts of chances that — in the past — have lead to great successes but are now — temporarily — leading to some failures. You MUST fail if you want…