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[Smiles and Cries]

He is a fascinating figure, especially when contrasted against the stiffs that the other two companies have in that position.

Some Reggie facts, grabbed from the Wikipedia page:
- joined Nintendo in December 2003 as the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing
- has served as the Head of Marketing for Guinness in the United States and was responsible for all brands
- joined VH1 as Senior VP; was responsible for a 30% increase in ratings
- as Senior Director of National Marketing at Pizza Hut, he launched the Bigfoot Pizza and The Big New Yorker
- is a member of the Advisory Council for Cornell's Communication department
- has three children from a previous marriage

Raise your pint glasses: to Reggie!


I'm always game for that, as strange as that may sound.

I respect all that and as someone who was born in Haiti I know his parents were Haitian so thats all cool with me but I don't see putting his face on deformed gifs as a sign of love and respect for the poor guy

Also sounds like this guy knows his shit I wonder how much or a roll in the Wii's success in the US can be tracked back to him behind the scenes I know most gamers feel he is a puppet because this is a Japanese company

 

[Log4Girlz]

I have no idea what you are talking about.

[/QUOTE]

So much better than mine

I'm new to editing.

 

[HylianTom]

What would it take for you guys to NOT buy a new Nintendo console? Hard for me to envision such a scenario personally.

I can't think of a circumstance. Nintendo has my bank account, and they know it.

Maybe if they announced that they were going to stop releasing Mario and Zelda games? I love those games; while some folks look forward to vacations in faraway places, I look forward to spending time in those strange locales. Big Nintendo game releases are often the highlight of my year. It might sound strange or even sad, but I don't think so. I'm a pretty cheerful guy, and life is damn good.

Also, of interest..

Who's looking-up his email address? That's a bit scary, especially if you're Reggie.

 

[shadyspace]

Big Nintendo game releases are often the highlight of my year. It might sound strange or even sad, but I don't think so. I'm a pretty cheerful guy, and life is damn good.

Stop stealing my life!

 

[Smiles and Cries]

51 pages in three days. How does this compare to the other three threads?

slower I have not been posting so lets blame it on the top posters from the last thread

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

Who's looking-up his email address?

I've only looked up his bra-size myself, those people have issues.

 

[NeoGohan]

hype train

 

[Smiles and Cries]

well now I am kinda curious about how much money the guy has

 

[HylianTom]

Stop stealing my life!

The thing is, a few years ago I would have hesitated in typing that and sharing it. I probably would have hit the 'Back' button and moved on. But no more. I'm not going on filter about how much I enjoy their stuff, and if folks want to judge.. so be it.

There is one event that will rival E3 and Launch Day for me this year.. it's something that I've wanted for a very long time: Symphony of the Goddesses. I've always wanted a dedicated Zelda concert, and it's actually coming true. When I found out about it, I had to check to make sure that I wasn't dead, and that this wasn't some form of Heaven that was coming-together around me. (If Heaven were of my choosing, the Saints-Vikings NFC Championship game, the SuperBowl, and the ensuing Mardi Gras would have also begun repeating around me, Groundhog Day-style. And my dog and family would be with me the whole time.)

Odds are good that I won't make it through the performance without crying. That music has been the punctuation marks on my life. I've held new nieces and nephews to it, I've spent long nights with my loved ones hearing it, I crammed for my board exams with its themes rocking-out in the background to get me pumped-up.. it means a lot to me.

 

[Gahiggidy]

I have a question.

Is there any cost advantage for Nintendo with going with a lower clock speed? As long as the chip set stays the same? Is it anything like the consumer market where Intel will sell the exact same CPU but at different prices based on the clock speed? Or is it up to Nintendo to determine how fast to run them at?

 

[botty]

So I heard the wii u was 50% stronger than xbox again? Talk about being up and down..

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

The thing is, a few years ago I would have hesitated in typing that and sharing it. I probably would have hit the 'Back' button and moved on. But no more. I'm not going on filter about how much I enjoy their stuff, and if folks want to judge.. so be it.

I'd judge you more if you backspaced.

 

[shadyspace]

The thing is, a few years ago I would have hesitated in typing that and sharing it. I probably would have hit the 'Back' button and moved on. But no more. I'm not going on filter about how much I enjoy their stuff, and if folks want to judge.. so be it.

There is one event that will rival E3 and Launch Day for me this year.. it's something that I've wanted for a very long time: Symphony of the Goddesses. I've always wanted a dedicated Zelda concert, and it's actually coming true. When I found out about it, I had to check to make sure that I wasn't dead, and that this wasn't some form of Heaven that was coming-together around me.

Odds are good that I won't make it through the performance without crying. That music has been the punctuation marks on my life. I've held new nieces and nephews to it, I've spent long nights with my loved ones hearing it, I crammed for my board exams with its themes rocking-out in the background to get me pumped-up.. it means a lot to me.

I proudly tell my friends that Nintendo's E3 Press Conferences are my Adult Christmases ™. The main difference being that I get even more excited for a Nintendo Presser at 21 than I did for Christmas at 10. When I think about the fact that this fall I will be purchasing a console that will eventually be home to an HD Zelda game I get a bit woozy.

 

[GameplayWhore]

What would it take for you guys to NOT buy a new Nintendo console? Hard for me to envision such a scenario personally.

I wouldn't buy it if it didn't dip below $400, even if it had the greatest Mario game ever.

Hell, I probably wouldn't buy it if it didn't dip below $300 unless it had some god-feature that I had to have.

 

[Bagu]

I have a question.

Is there any cost advantage for Nintendo with going with a lower clock speed? As long as the chip set stays the same? Is it anything like the consumer market where Intel will sell the exact same CPU but at different prices based on the clock speed? Or is it up to Nintendo to determine how fast to run them at?

Lower clock speeds means things run cooler. Less need for cooling as a result.

 

[TheCongressman1]

Odds are good that I won't make it through the performance without crying. That music has been the punctuation marks on my life. I've held new nieces and nephews to it, I've spent long nights with my loved ones hearing it, I crammed for my board exams with its themes rocking-out in the background to get me pumped-up.. it means a lot to me.

I'll man up. The night my friends and I went to get SS, we played the Symphony CD on the way home. As soon as WW's ocean sailing theme kicked in, tears trickled down my cheek.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

I wouldn't buy it if it didn't dip below $400, even if it had the greatest Mario game ever.

Hell, I probably wouldn't buy it if it didn't dip below $300 unless it had some god-feature that I had to have.

No way it is under 300$ and no way you skip out on it.

 

[HylianTom]

I proudly tell my friends that Nintendo's E3 Press Conferences are my Adult Christmases ™. The main difference being that I get even more excited for a Nintendo Presser at 21 than I did for Christmas at 10.

Yep. Definitely a kindred spirit!

Lower clock speeds means things run cooler. Less need for cooling as a result.

I like this. A lot. Especially if it means that I get to have hardware that has a much greater chance of still being operational in 20 years.

 

[Anth0ny]

The thing is, a few years ago I would have hesitated in typing that and sharing it. I probably would have hit the 'Back' button and moved on. But no more. I'm not going on filter about how much I enjoy their stuff, and if folks want to judge.. so be it.

There is one event that will rival E3 and Launch Day for me this year.. it's something that I've wanted for a very long time: Symphony of the Goddesses. I've always wanted a dedicated Zelda concert, and it's actually coming true. When I found out about it, I had to check to make sure that I wasn't dead, and that this wasn't some form of Heaven that was coming-together around me. (If Heaven were of my choosing, the Saints-Vikings NFC Championship game, the SuperBowl, and the ensuing Mardi Gras would have also begun repeating around me, Groundhog Day-style. And my dog and family would be with me the whole time.

Agreed. That Symphony is going to be incredible. Just listening to the CD that came with Skyward Sword is amazing enough, let alone being there live. I got front row seats.

It's in September in Toronto, so I'm hoping for some

Spoiler

Retro Zelda

Wii U demo units =)

 

[LOCK]

I will blindly buy it for any made up excuse I can muster around its release time. lol

 

[GameplayWhore]

I proudly tell my friends that Nintendo's E3 Press Conferences are my Adult Christmases ™. The main difference being that I get even more excited for a Nintendo Presser at 21 than I did for Christmas at 10. When I think about the fact that this fall I will be purchasing a console that will eventually be home to an HD Zelda game I get a bit woozy.

E3 N-Conf is when I show up to work in headphones and nobody bothers me that day.

 

[HylianTom]

I'll man up. The night my friends and I went to get SS, we played the Symphony CD on the way home. As soon as WW's ocean sailing theme kicked in, a tear trickled down my cheek.

I get you 110%. The Wind Waker stuff is my absolute kryptonite.

Now that I think about it, a huge part of how highly I rate Zelda games might be correlated with how much I like the music. Hmm. I'll have to get back to you guys on that one.

Agreed. That Symphony is going to be incredible. Just listening to the CD that came with Skyward Sword is amazing enough, let alone being there live. I got front row seats.

It's in September in Toronto, so I'm hoping for some

Spoiler

Retro Zelda

Wii U demo units =)

I didn't even think about that! I'm going to Austin in late June (i.e., after E3, hopefully when Nintendo decides to "release the Kracken!").. I wonder if they'd do the demo thing with the tour? My date would be cutting it close..

 

[GameplayWhore]

No way it is under 300$ and no way you skip out on it.

Wat.

It will never dip below $300!?

edit: Ah, I missed the "New" part of the question. :|

My conditional "release window" buying schema is thus:

≤$250 || ( TimeSplitters 4 && ≤$300 ) || ( Electrostatic Haptics && ≤$350 )

So it is rather unlikely as things stand so far.

 

[Aguila]

51 pages in three days. How does this compare to the other three threads?

The first had 51 pages in 26 days.
The second had 51 pages in 8 days.
The third had 51 pages in 2 days.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

Wat.

It will never dip below $300!?

You're going to buy it a year later when everyone else is enjoying Nintendo first party game HD goodness???

ARE YOU MENTALLY INSANE??????

 

[Bagu]

The first had 51 pages in 26 days.
The second had 51 pages in 8 days.
The third had 51 pages in 2 days.

I'm guessing the third thread staying open slowed this one a bit.

 

[Bisnic]

You're going to buy it a year later when everyone else is enjoying Nintendo first party game HD goodness???

ARE YOU MENTALLY INSANE??????

Depends if that Nintendo first party HD launch game is Wii Music U or Metroid U.

 

[HylianTom]

You're going to buy it a year later when everyone else is enjoying Nintendo first party game HD goodness???

ARE YOU MENTALLY INSANE??????

Part of the thrill is the hunt for a new console!

I love camping out with other Ninthings for shiny new smelly NintendoPlastic! For some of us older folks who don't go out late much, this might be the latest we go out of the house at night in years, haha!

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

Depends if that Nintendo first party HD launch game is Wii Music U or Metroid U.

What if it's New Super Mario Brothers Mii but with an artstyle like Yoshi's Story???

 

[GameplayWhore]

I'm guessing the third thread staying open slowed this one a bit.

The third did it during actual news time. We have much slimmer pickins.

Plus, it's been two days and six hours, not three days.

 

[Gummb]

Wow, these threads go by too fast. I'm gone for a week and we're over 100,000 posts in thread IV!!?!?

What has there possibly been to talk about? D:

 

[Bagu]

The third did it during actual news time. We have much slimmer pickins.

Plus, it's been two days and six hours, not three days.

pfft! Technicalities

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

Part of the thrill is the hunt for a new console!

I love camping out with other Ninthings for shiny new smelly NintendoPlastic! For some of us older folks who don't go out late much, this might be the latest we go out of the house at night in years, haha!

I camped out for the first time in my life for the Wii.

It was physically demanding but I saw a girl with a nice butt in tight pants and whenever I burp, I still taste Subway to this day.

There was also controversy in our "line" and that is always fun.

Negatives: They were so gracious to let us watch TV while waiting in the greenroom of the store BUT it was King Kong and that silly Da Vinci code movie:[

 

[HylianTom]

The third did it during actual news time. We have much slimmer pickins.

Plus, it's been two days and six hours, not three days.

Just shy of 47 posts per hour.

It's times like these that make me wish that GAF had a record-keeping function of some sort. I know that NPD threads from years past used to move so quickly that you'd refresh and see that it went from Page 1 to Page 3 - with 100 threads per page.

But for sustained, long-term activity.. I'm wondering if anything really compares.

 

[Bisnic]

Wow, these threads go by too fast. I'm gone for a week and we're over 100,000 posts in thread IV!!?!?

What has there possibly been to talk about? D:

Rumors, speculations, bans.

Oh, and Reggie.

 

[HylianTom]

I camped out for the first time in my life for the Wii.

It was physically demanding but I saw a girl with a nice butt in tight pants and whenever I burp, I still taste Subway to this day.

There was also controversy in our "line" and that is always fun.

Negatives: They were so gracious to let us watch TV while waiting in the greenroom of the store BUT it was King Kong and that silly Da Vinci code movie:[

Wait.. what was your controversy? Ours was the most boring, congenial line in the history of lines.

 

[shadyspace]

I was one of the few and proud who stayed up all night on Amazon and got one. Bitches don't know 'bout my 1-Click.

 

[GameplayWhore]

What if it's New Super Mario Brothers Mii but with an artstyle like Yoshi's Story???

Then it will probably have been farmed out to Team Ninja.

I'm not letting optimism get into my soup today.

 

[Log4Girlz]

I'm so bad at this lolz.

 

[GameplayWhore]

Just shy of 47 posts per hour.

It's times like these that make me wish that GAF had a record-keeping function of some sort. I know that NPD threads from years past used to move so quickly that you'd refresh and see that it went from Page 1 to Page 3 - with 100 threads per page.

But for sustained, long-term activity.. I'm wondering if anything really compares.

You can write a script that just takes a thread and looks at all the timestamps in it. This isn't hard at all.

 

[GameplayWhore]

myhypetrainisreggie.jpg

I'm so bad at this lolz.

Miyamoto looks like he's very unhappily being forced to hump muto-reggie.

 

[fernoca]

YES!!
New avatar get!

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

Wait.. what was your controversy? Ours was the most boring, congenial line in the history of lines.

Some idiot in the end of our line tried to be Mr. Politician and have all of us write our names and what place in line we were in when it was getting close to that time to get our systems.

I don't know what the point was.

No one really went anywhere nor was there any drama or arguments of placing.

I was second or third in line and I was just like "what in the fuck is this nonsense???"

 

[HylianTom]

Some idiot in the end of our line tried to be Mr. Politician and have all of us write our names and what place in line we were in when it was getting close to that time to get our systems.

I don't know what the point was.

No one really went anywhere nor was there any drama or arguments of placing.

I was second or third in line and I was just like "what in the fuck is this nonsense???"

I arrived at 11pm to be the first in line on the night before GameStop started taking pre-orders. The second and third guys showed-up about an hour later, within minutes of each other. By 3AM, we had about 10 people in line. There was a bit of a lull between 4 and 5, and then we jumped up to 30 by 6AM.

Some people played Mario Kart DS, others slept, some debated on their favorite Zelda (that one lasted about an hour and I made a point of keeping my mouth shut!). The line had a bunch of older folks in it, and the crowd was quite pleasant.

They ended-up getting 24 units. In my enthusiasm, I ended-up spending way too much on games that I have rarely touched after that first launch month. But I had a grand time.

 

[LOCK]

I'm so bad at this lolz.

Hahaha that's amazing.

 

[Anth0ny]

Someone tried to break into the Best Buy during my Wii camp out. Alarm went off and everything.

No Wiis were harmed.

 

[TheGreatMightyPoo]

I arrived at 11pm to be the first in line on the night before GameStop started taking pre-orders. The second and third guys showed-up about an hour later, within minutes of each other. By 3AM, we had about 10 people in line. There was a bit of a lull between 4 and 5, and then we jumped up to 30 by 6AM.

Some people played Mario Kart DS, others slept, some debated on their favorite Zelda (that one lasted about an hour and I made a point of keeping my mouth shut!). The line had a bunch of older folks in it, and the crowd was quite pleasant.

They ended-up getting 24 units. In my enthusiasm, I ended-up buying way too much on games that I have rarely touched after that first launch month. But I had a grand time.

I ended up waiting about 24 hours for the system.

It was brutal but I was fairly content on how tough it was getting the system afterwards.

It was strange though, I was there so long, the people at the front of the line became "friends" and then when we went to get the system, no one cared about anything or anyone but getting our filthy mitts on the thing.

I remember hitting some dude in the final line to buy the system and saying "take care" and him not really giving a shit but it was a means to an end I suppose.

Weird.

 

[Christine]

I slept outside a Walmart for a Wii. First, last, and only time I'll be doing that.

 

[Gummb]

Poor, poor Reggie.

 

[MadOdorMachine]

All right, I'm going to speculate.

Here's a secret feature Nintendo may be able to implement.

Stereo scopic head visor.

- Wii U is already streaming video.
- Nintendo has said the Wii U will support 3D.
- Nintendo has been experimenting with 3D & augmented reality on 3DS.
- Wii U has full motion controls with the Wii remote and nun chuck.

All that's really needed control wise is for the visor to enable head tracking. The Wii remote and nun-chuck are perfect for this type of control for this type of gameplay. The streaming video resolution of the screen appears to be adequate for viewing in stereo 3D. Nintendo could also potentially get the screens, gyroscopes, processors and other components needed at a price affordable for consumers.