Speaking to Edge Magazine, NOE Marketing Director Laurent Fischer was surprisingly dismissive of the growing space demands of WiiWare titles. According to him, only "geeks and otaku" want the issue actually addressed. Which just hurts.
If by "geeks and otaku," Mr. Fischer, you mean Nintendo's loyal fanbase who download every game released, then there may some truth in that. But calling them names certainly won't keep those "geeks and otaku" loyal for much longer.
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I haven't spent a cent on the Wii store, because paying for old games I already bought a decade ago seemed like a moronic idea, but Wiiware finally had me sold on a few of it's titles....I'll still buy them, but this type of bad PR leaves a rotten taste in my mouth.
Yeah, it's generally a "moronic idea" to buy games you've already bought. That's why, uhh, you know... most people buy the games they haven't yet bought. Yep!
Man Siegal, you get your feelings hurt enough before you wrote this article? I don't care what Nintendo SAYS, as long as what they DO is find a storage solution, which their PRESIDENT (that's the guy over the EU Marketing Director) already confirmed.
2) Insert Foot
3) Look for new job
^ What's left on the agenda of this idiot.
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I'd just brush this off if I were you people. He's a marketing director, not the head of the company. I wouldn't be surprised to see a retraction soon. >_>
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also, screw you Laurent Fischer
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No, seriously. Isn't he adorable?
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Almost as bad as sony...
However there is a lil bit of truth to his statement. The die hard downloaders are kinda nerdy...
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Lol, does Nintendo even have ads on the PlayBoy magazine?
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http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2008/05/01/iwata-were-looking-into-the-flash-memory-situation/
"We are not making a new model of Nintendo DS"
It wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo shafted their European offices as much as they shaft Europeans in general.
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*runs*
on topic: someone tell nintendo that I don't care if internal space is going to stay at 512megs or not, since I refuse to buy anything off their store until there are playable demos.
All that aside... they really should consider offering hardware capabilities that will support the software that they offer... and there's more money in it for them, if they do.
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That was easily the dumbest thing I've read all day. It's NEVER a good thing when a gaming company leaves the hardware business, ESPECIALLY one that has contributed as much to gaming as Nintendo. I was sad when Sega fell out of the race... fuck, I dunno what I'd do if Nintendo left the market.
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Is there anything wrong with that? For many of us Nintendo was an integral part of our childhood, and this has continued through to this day despite their best efforts to tell us to go fuck ourselves.
In many ways Nintendo was like a childhood friend who you played with all the time, he kind of went off the rails in his teens and started drinking heavily and you worried for him, but through it all you stuck by him. He checked into rehab though, got cleaned up and then got a better job than you. Even though you stuck by him, one night when you were reminiscing childhood memories he just turned around, called you a wanker and pissed on your floor for no good reason. He's moved on and your understandably bitter a bit sitter about it.
That was either the greatest thing I've ever written or the biggest load of bollocks ever, I'm really not sure.