Reggie is actually very funny and is the pure definition of a team leader when it came to being the head honcho for Nintendo at one point. Him and Satoru Iwata’s friendship was very awesome and special.
"You spend 16 hours a day playing smash. I spend 16 hours a day running a company"
He became the face of the company for the English-speaking world and blazed the trail for a new generation of down-to-earth media executives in the Internet-era. He is an expert salesman and was instrumental in helping Nintendo market its weird-looking Nintendo DS and Wii to Western audiences through television and online appearances. Reggie talked the talk, walked the walk and he played the games. After all, his name is Reggie and he's about kicking ass and taking names.
He sure did a great job of that, Wii U turned out great. And 3DS, what a launch. Guy really knew his stuff.
I don't think there was anything anyone could have done to save the Wii U. It was a perfect storm of bad timing, naming and gimmick. I know there's the argument of better marketing so people didn't think it was a peripheral, but I'm not convinced that many people really never figured it out.
They changed the name of systems in the west before, otherwise we'd have got the "Family Computer" instead of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Not just the west either, the Game Boy was called the ComBoy Mini in Korea. I see no reason that abysmal name couldn't have been changed.
I've always wondered exactly how much say Nintendo of America gets when it comes to the names of the consoles, especially after the turn of the millennium.
Well, it's a smaller change but our XL systems (DS/3DS) are called LL in Japan, I think it's because LL signifies "extra large" to them like XL does for us. Still, it's a change.
None of that was really his fault. Ultimately, post Hiroshi Yamauchi/Howard Lincoln era Nintendo of America were just yesmen to the Japanese HQ. That why Satoru Iwata was CEO of Nintendo of America, while Reggie was only COO; his job was to be the corporate face and run day to day operations, not guide Nintendo of America's corporate strategy or decisions. He could only influence them, not make them.
What games are on the cartridge and which ones are not on the virtual console Sega package and which games on the Sega Vitual Console package are not on the cartridge?
Those two were probably destined to fail regardless. Both were outdated hardware by the time they came out, had confusing names, played to long dead trends, and had shit launch titles. Imagine having to sell the general public on Pilot Wings or New Super Mario Bros. U as the must have titles. Nintendo’s head was super far up there own ass with these systems as the consoles lacked any ambitious titles outside of niche franchises like Fire Emblem. The company was basically coasting on memberberries throughout the 8th gen and the Mario, Pokémon, and Smash series suffered because of it.
If I could play every Ys game on Switch, I'd shit my pants.
I'm pretty sure that they'll include a few more sports as DLC.
You must be a young fag.
Shit back in the 90s people were carrying entire PCs + 40 pound monitors around to do LAN gaming. Modern gamers know nothing of the struggle.
Yes, but will Mario Strikers turn out better, worse, or on par. Nintendo seems to give little shit about the sports titles anymore, which sucks as they were the best part of the Wii.