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Nintendo aims to increase third-party support
Nintendo has a message for its third-party partners—there’s still plenty of room in the Mushroom Kingdom. Speaking Tuesday with the Wall Street Journal, Nintendo of America president Reggie-Fils Aime said he hopes to increase the percentage of Wii games published by third-party companies by 15 percent. Fils-Aime’s goal would raise the third-party Wii share from 55 to 70 percent, ...
Reggie Says: No VC for DSi, Friend Codes Here to Stay
In a recent Interview with Wired, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime admitted there are no current plans to make classic Gameboy, GB Color, or GBA games available through the DSiWare download service: …we don’t want to see is a game that is available on a number of other platforms, either mobile or home, nor do we want to see games that don’t take advantage of the uni...
Amidst the spin, Reggie has a point
Developers typically blame used game sales when their bloated single-player titles end up in the bargain bin after a week on the shelf. Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime, on the other hand, looks at used games and sees an opportunity to stroke the Wii, so to speak. “We don’t believe used games are in the best interest of the consumer,” Fils-Aime said. “We have products that...
So which is it, Reggie?
When a doofus says a developer needs to sell X number of games on the Wii to be profitable, I all laugh accordingly. However, when Reggie says developers need to sell 1 million copies, on the record, in an interview with the New York Times, I first scratch my head and pray that this is not accurate, for it has dire implications for the entire video game community. Today, in a follow up to those NY...
Fils-Aime criticizes third-party Wii efforts
Some people just don’t get the Wii. According to Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo’s third-party partners aren’t getting it either. In an interview with Forbes published yesterday, the intimidating Nintendo of America president had harsh words for third-party companies struggling to find a viable consumer market on Wii. According to Fils-Aime, their games just need to b...
Fils-Aime tells IGN Disaster isn’t a $50 game
As if two years of development struggles and trips to the drawing board weren’t enough, Disaster has hit another serious roadblock. Reggie doesn’t like it. According to IGN’s Matt Casamassina, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime is unimpressed with Disaster: Day of Crisis, the new and oft-delayed action-adventure title from developer Monolith Soft. Said Casamassina on ...
What’s Nintendo Playing?
Imagine you’re working in Nintendo of America’s marketing division in Redwood City, California, and it’s been a long week. Maybe you’ve had trouble organizing a promotion, or maybe you’re up against a deadline ”“ whatever the reason, you wonder how you’re going to make it to the end of the day. A co-worker snaps you out of your trance, “Hey, what are you sti...
Reggie: We made Wii Music look too simple
Like Othello, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime wants you to know that Wii Music is simple to learn, but will take a lifetime to master. “What’s powerful in Wii Music is this juxtaposition of something that looks so simple but is wonderfully difficult to master,” Reggie Fils-Aime told VentureBeat. “We may have done that title an injustice at E3 by showing somet...
Reggie kills off Wii HDD rumors, promises “better solution”
What do you do if your company has had nothing to say on its console’s lack of a storage solution for the past two years? If you’re Reggie Fils-Aime, and your company is Nintendo, you tell a European journalist that HDD’s aren’t necessary, and a “better solution” is on the horizon. Translated and corroborated by GoNintendo: Says Animal Crossing is not casual and...
“Sense of urgency” driving Nintendo to produce storage solution
It seems like eons ago that Nintendo of Europe funnyman Laurent Fischer said “geeks and otaku” were the only people worried about a Wii storage solution. Today, we revisit the topic with Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime, who put a decidedly different kind of spin on the issue. “As we continue to have things […] like Mario Kart that has its own channel when you’re ...
“Bottom-up GTA on the Wii?” Yes, please, Reggie says
I think we’ve visited this topic before, perhaps in 2007, but once again NOA president Reggie Fils-Aime was singing the praises of Take Two and Grand Theft Auto. As for a GTA game on the Wii? Take Two should probably take note that it shouldn’t be a port. That might make Reggie angry, and you don’t want to see Reggie when he’s angry… All I can tell you is that since t...
Reggie: Nintendo “lost its soul?!” You’ve lost your mind
One last post-E3 interview, during which I break my word and mention E3 one more time. I guess I do this because I know that like all knee-jerk, vocal minority-driven “public outcries,” this one has been incredibly short-lived. Wii Music was awkward and borderline offensive with its boredom, Blake said, and there were no first party megatons announced on stage during the keynote, this ...