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Unless you have some sort of parentally-enforced bedtime, or live in an Amish community that shuns the use of televisions, there's really no excuse to miss the piping-hot weekly episodes of Gametrailers TV on Spike. If you skipped last Friday's show, you missed some of the most exciting news to grace Nintendo fanboys' ears in quite some time -- the promise of an E3 unveiling of a Wii holiday blockbuster, delivered by the mountainous Reggie Fils-Aime.

"We are going to have great new content maximizing all our key franchises," Fils-Aime promised. "It's going to be a good second half." As host Geoff Keighley conjectured, a Donkey Kong Wii title is certainly a logical assumption, but our fingers are eternally crossed for Animal Crossing Wii. What first-party franchises do you hope The Reg was hinting at?

[Via Kotaku]

JoystiqReggie: Holiday blockbuster for the Wii to be revealed at E3 originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nintendo sure loves talking about things it dislikes. Recently we learned that Wii shortages were on the company's ever-growing list of pet peeves. Now, Reuters reports that Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime is speaking up against unofficial Wii bundles, which force customers to buy the console with additional games and peripherals not of their own choosing.

We're all too familiar with Wii bundles, which artificially increase the price of the relatively cheap console. GameStop does it. Wal-Mart does it. Now, Reggie is expressing distaste over the practice, claiming that it masks the console's price advantage over its competitors, and forces customers to buy things they don't want.

Though Reggie states that Nintendo has contacted specific retailers to express their feelings, he does not address Reuters' question as to whether Nintendo threatened those retailers with fewer shipments. Reggie recently announced a plan to guarantee Wii consoles in 2008 to purchasers who pick up rain check certificates at GameStop retail locations later this week.

[Via GamesIndustry.biz]

JoystiqUnofficial Wii bundles make Nintendo unhappy originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Here's the new trailer for Super Mario Galaxy that we're sure you'll see during your favorite TV programs soon. As you can see, Nintendo marketing has eschewed the "Wii would like to play" guys this time in favor of ... wait a minute ... is that supposed to be a young Reggie Fils-Aime?

Either way, the clips shown look great, hitting us right in the inner child that remembers having a stiff neck from playing Super Mario 64 for two hours straight at the local Blockbuster Video. Though we're not sure we understand the rationale behind choosing a tiny Reggie doppelgänger as the front man for the ad, we most definitely understand the little guy's enthusiasm.

JoystiqLil' Reggie digs Super Mario Galaxy in new trailer originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Faster than we could say "Nintendo," the Wii has once again slipped back into questionable supply for this holiday season. Where previously Reggie Fils-Aimé appeared confident in the "unprecedented" number of Wiis in stock this Winter, now the Nintendo of America President seems convinced that demand will still far exceed supply, with shortages through the end of 2007 meaning crummy Christmases and half-baked Hannukahs two years in a row for some gamers.

In an interview with Mercury News, Fils-Aimé goes "on the record" to state that the Wii can't possibly meet demand by the end of the year. He strongly emphasizes that this is not a production issue, and has to do merely with the incredible demand for the product, which production has been unable to keep up with (though that does sound like a production issue to us).

Still, Reggie promises that the Wii will be appearing in retail locations at an almost constant flow, and urges potential buyers to call stores persistently to ask when future shipments are arriving, and to get to stores early.


[Via GamesIndustry]

JoystiqWii can't meet demand for holiday season, says Reggie originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Talking with Nintendo of America's Reggie Fils-Aime about WiiWare, Newsweek's N'Gai Croal used the opportunity to bring up Nintendo's stance on games rated Adults Only by the Entertainment Software Rating Board, first in relation to their "hands-off" approach to the download service and then with the recent Manhunt 2.

Fils-Aime makes the company's stance with the ESRB very clear: no AO-rated titles. "This is not an image issue, Wii welcomes games rated E, T and M," he said, adding that he doubts Nintendo will ever approve an AO-rated title.

Concerning Manhunt 2, Fils-aime said that, "What Rockstar has right now is a game rated outside our spectrum, outside any manufacturer's spectrum," and asserted that they are still interested in releasing the game if it receives a Mature rating.

JoystiqNOA's Reggie Fils-Aime talks Manhunt 2, AO titles originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Not content with his company's record earnings, Nintendo's Satoru Iwata dropped the smack on Nintendo of America's lackluster sales, citing a unique inability to unload copies of DS phenom Brain Age. Said Iwata, "When I received a report from the U.S. that they sold 1 million Pokémon Diamond & Pearl already, I asked them, 'why did you sell only 10,000 Brain Age last week, when Europe sold through 30,000?' This is a typical example of how I communicate with our people in the U.S." Typical? Instantly, our image of NoA's towering Reggie Fils-Aime simultaneously kicking asses while jotting down names (in cursive, mind you) has been replaced with one of Iwata flipping over boardroom desks while asking ... nay, demanding to know why Nintendo can't seem to make a dent in America!

Mr. Iwata, if we may be so bold as to make a suggestion that we feel may help contribute to even higher record earnings and additional piles of cash to swim in: make more consoles. You see, the DS Lite and Wii have been relatively scarce since last December! Don't worry folks, Iwata's on top of it. He says, "a small increase [in production] is expected at the retail outlets from next month." Wait, that's this month. Don't blow it, Reggie or you know who's gonna come knocking.

[Thanks, Josh; via DS Fanboy]

JoystiqIwata lays the smack down on Nintendo of America originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 04 May 2007 11:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Some fine Sunday night viewing. We have a clip of the Reggie narrating a video of Metroid Prime 3 ostensibly running on some form of the Revolution hardware. The Revolution Fanboy crew is quick to remind us this isn't new material by any means: it's the same footage Satoru Iwata showed off at last year's E3. Apparently that wasn't the only venue that got to see it, and Iwata wasn't the only Nintendo bigwig who showed it off. Worthwhile viewing for those who haven't seen it... or for those of you with embarrassing gamer-crushes on Reggie. Say it again Reggie... say "make no mistake" again!

[Harmless rant[TM]: By the way, that Revolution logo is really ugly. They could have submitted that to our (very quiet of late) lineup of possible Revolution interfaces, and we'd have called it a fake; probably even an "amateurish" fake. We know it's not a final name, we know it was only a mockup menu... we're just sayin'. As long as they get that super-sleek micro/DS Lite/Revolution hardware stank all over that logo when it's done, we'll be happier than a pair of wireless revomotes.]

[Thanks, DJ Rage; via Revolution Fanboy]

JoystiqReggie introduces (old) Metroid Prime 3 video originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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