Motoi Okamoto, a former developer at Nintendo and now steward for the Silent Hill franchise at Konami, has taken to social media to comment on whether game directors might be considered "incompetent" if they're unable to judge new ideas without first implementing them.

As covered by Automaton , Okamoto – who worked on games such as Pikmin , Luigi's Mansion , and Wii Play – describes a culture at Nintendo in which "everyone is a director", thus giving team members the agency to make decisions that might improve a game.

He also says that implementing ideas and playtesting them is crucial to making a solid, fun product. As such, programmers who make excuses for not doing this – whether it be due to deadlines or monetary reasons – will be "removed from development teams without h

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