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Bill Trinen spoils upcoming Nintendo E3 joke on Twitter #spoilergate

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Recently fired Bills, Simmons and Trinen, to start a new site covering Japanese sports videogames and the Japanese basketball league. Brilliantly translated but stale 80s and 90s pop culture references - from Japan! I can't wait!

As someone coming to this thread late, though, the first page reads pretty damn funny. Ol' Bill made quite the boner this time.
 
So my guess is that the E3 plans video was supposed to make a bit of a mockery of the Konami situation in combination with the ongoing faux rivalry between Reggie and Bill by presenting a scenario where Trinen leaves or is fired from Nintendo.

Then the actual E3 video would have the surprise of Bill appearing in some kind of joke context with a gotcha that he never really left Nintendo at all.

But it would all be a double ruse for Trinen would then say "oh, one other thing", and coming full circle HIDEO KOJIMA would appear and announce he is joining Nintendo with del Toro.

Sounds reasonable and doable to me
 
What is he trolling. What is this shit. My heart can't take this. It's as dumb as the GOG "closing down" joke. :(
Over the years, there was this ongoing "animosity" between him and Reggie in the Directs.
It all started with him insulting Reggie's Japanese.
 
So my guess is that the E3 plans video was supposed to make a bit of a mockery of the Konami situation in combination with the ongoing faux rivalry between Reggie and Bill by presenting a scenario where Trinen leaves or is fired from Nintendo.

Then the actual E3 video would have the surprise of Bill appearing in some kind of joke context with a gotcha that he never really left Nintendo at all.

But it would all be a double ruse for Trinen would then say "oh, one other thing", and coming full circle HIDEO KOJIMA would appear and announce he is joining Nintendo with del Toro.

This would be some nWo-era WCW type swerving.
 
Just tried calling him, but he is either out of office (?) or doesn't wanna pick up the phone. :P
 
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I giggled.
 
So, the video shows Reggie training with the Wii Remote, the SuperScopes, the balance board, the powerpad and the Virtual Boy ...

is this the Failed Hardware Olympics?*





*I realize the Wii didn't fail, but motion controls aren't exactly top-of-mind anymore.
 
So, the video shows Reggie training with the Wii Remote, the SuperScopes, the balance board, the powerpad and the Virtual Boy ...

is this the Failed Hardware Olympics?*
*I realize the Wii didn't fail, but motion controls aren't exactly top-of-mind anymore.


Balance board just got Wii Sports U released, and has gotten several other things over 5 years. Super failed. Same with Super Scope.
 
I guess this got a lot more attention than if the joke worked right? Failing up?

Noa reminds me of Gerald Ford trying to go down a flight of stairs...
 
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