Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has some sharp words for Microsoft and Sony: you react to us, not the other way around. Speaking to CNET in a telephone interview today, Fils-Aime brushed off an assertion that the Wii U could be faced with irrelevancy issues if Microsoft and Sony launch their new consoles in the coming year, as expected.
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Wii has Nintendo Network and support for Youtube, Netflix and so on now.
That said, MS/Sony would be idiots not to react to Nintendo.
Does it matter anyhow?
Look at his face, look at his stupid face. He means no harm
PC & Dreamcast says hi
Nintendo already had a network back with the GC. It was only used for one game series at that time though. They used it more for the DS and even more than that for the Wii.
Ugh, laughed so hard at that. Bubbles mate.
Also SFCBS and Xband.
that aside i think its bit of healthy competition.he is just sticking up to the rivals(360/PS3) and is good for business and it means more harm.
only delusional people will take it serious.
Hardcore Gaming!!!
LOL.fanboys so lame and dump.
But I agree, they both react to each other, and it's for the better. Competition, while not the end all be all of progressing things, still is important and provides benefits.
Also while I'd love for the Kinect 2.0 to work,I'm not going to automatically believe that it will work because it has a 2 on the end. I'm sure it'll be better, but it could be better, still not good, because Kinect 1 is pretty horrible. But the hand manipulator looks like a good way to make it much better, and copy Sony's Move in application while getting around it's patents.
Plus the whole behind the scenes information grabbing of the kinect, well it is expanding with the Kinect 2, is pretty alarming. Personally I don't want my gametime to be free marketable data to whoever they want to sell it to...or asks for the information.
They did:
They're called the 360 and PS3.
"It's just a bit of healthy competition. He's just bigging up his console like he's supposed to.
Look at his face, look at his stupid face. He means no harm"
Thats just the funniest thing Ive read in a while. Thanks for the laugh man, im stuck at home nursing broken ribs. I needed that to cheer me up. Everytime i see that picture of him my chest explodes with a painful, crippling yet strangely warming laughter, Thank you for that bud.
And thank you Reggie for that quality picture
It'll be enough to motivate gamers though. Nintendo hit it out of the park with the Wii, but rather at the expense of people who were playing games before.
As a gamer, I like innovation. I appreciate it when new things are tried but mostly what I want is the genres I already love, but better, and that's what will get me to sign up to the next gen. Not waving a controller through the air or sitting with a bulky, pad device in my lap.
But I'm a gamer. I'm not the casual that Nintendo was targeting with the Wii. I'm the guy who bought the Wii and said "Wtf? This looks like ass on my HDTV. Do I have to point this controller at the screen the entire time I'm playing? Why am I waving this around? Waggle is not the new button press."
Sure MS and Sony tried to appeal to casuals with their own motion control, but if Nintendo doesn't have to react to their competition, what's with the pro-gaming controller? Isn't that a step backwards, Reggie? Isn't that an admission that you lost the audience that Sony and Microsoft happily catered to, and you're trying to rectify that mistake? It's rather an arrogant statement to make considering that everyone is watching what everyone else is doing.
Its no more a response to any BS released by Microsoft and Sony than it was 6 years ago. Its just a Super Nintendo controller with functionality added from the Gamecube controller. Nintendo redesigned it to the Classic Controller Pro which look more like the GC controller. The Wii U was actually using the Classic Controller Pro(pictured in dev kits) until Nintendo decided to give it a new look again for the new console.
Its the exact same controller only with the button layout made like the Upad with the analogs both up top.
There will likely be another redesign of it in the future. It does not nor has it ever had anything to do with responding to Microsoft/Sony.
It is used in the same way it was initially to made to be used. That is to play games that still rely on the outdated pure button pressing control style.
down with nintendo.
See where I'm going with this?
Nintendo, please learn from Sony circa 2005. Their cockyness did not go over well with anyone. They were taught a lesson by gamers to not act bigger than they are. The same could happen to you.
Good luck! Nothing wrong with silver! Oh yeah. The PS3 has just caught up to the 360 both now at seventy million units per. Nintendo has just performed an amazing feat! With two Game Cubes duct taped together Nintendo proved that Microsoft and Sony are both in second place and by second place I mean second class. Have fun stealing everything Nintendo has ever invented or even thought of."
As for Reggie, he's only protecting his interests. Don't bash the guy. Every CEO of big companies lie now and then.
In case you didn't know, Dreamcast was powered by Windows CE, so yes Microsoft was the first to unveil online gaming. They already stated that was their motive to begin with. Why do you think the Xbox was released with ethernet support and not a dial up connection.
David Jaffe always runs his mouth BEFORE his stuff is successful. Cliffy B. runs his mouth AFTER his stuff is successful. So yeah, I'd say Reggie A. is Nintendo's Cliffy B.
Assuming in Power,Graphics and physics,Next Gen started on PC years ago.
But on Control and Interreaction has started on Wii U.which lunched days ago.
so ya Next Gen has started already not till you say so.
Fanboys so delusional.
The card company is calling their bluff while showing their weakest hand. Every one knows s
Smash is coming, Zelda might actualy be fun again, but a last story or xenoblade are going to be drop dead gorgious. Galaxy is going to be rediculious. Mario kart is going to be epic. Imagine a wave race where you can race in the perfect storm! F zero, metriod, star fox, bayonnetta2, I don't know. The others guys better start the hype machine up soon. The wiiu hype train has not even started and we are getting big numbers.
I wouldn't mind if the wiiu did sell, it didn't make me like the neo geo any less or the lynx.
Is it possible nintendo is hinting at an out side compititor. If apple where to step in we could get new consoles every two years attached to cell phone like plans which would make online payment meaningful again. I'll admit I'd pay for online if it included the wireless plan with it. Could this be coming?
F***ing (non-existent) word of the day.
I wonder if Sony could pull off not releasing a system this gen? They have the fanbase. They have a vr headset that I would love to buy.
Really many gamers are too young to remember the snes though. Vc games have lots of legal issues it seems. Many of these company's are gone now. MS killed a large portion of them lol. Sony helped by killing pc gaming with the ps2!
I mean hell we don't even have arcades any more.
LOL....I own a wii-u, and you sir are stretching it.
Ah, this tired argument again. You mean a controller that functions similarly to the Vita? Which no one seems to view as gimmicky? Despite having motion control, a camera and not one, but two touch screens?
BTW i own both the Wii U and PS Vita
The comparison is 100% fair.
and I have no clue what you're talking about, the Wii U has an awesome online community and online infrastructure. you don't own one to claim the online sucks when it clearly is awesome.
just wait til you see games that take full advantage of the hardware. maybe it will be a Nintendo developed game or maybe it will be a third party game. either way, you'll be proven wrong.
There's a massive install base with PS360. Your starting this gen incredibly late with 3rd party software that people already baought on PS360.
They would be a threat at this moment if they released A Kid Icarus game, a new Metroid, Kirby, Donkey Kong, and the legendary Super Smash Bros next gen Zelda and new Super Mario Galaxy.
People don't wanna buy the Wii U for Cod and s bunch of third party games people have beatin 5x on PS360.
But look, all power to Nintendo next year should be a great year for them but I will say this. Nintendo, you won't like what you see when PS4 and 720 get released. Be careful what you wish for, just saying.
How it all plays out is going to be very interesting, probably the most interesting since the SNES/Genesis days, especially with the online variable
Why do people talk about 3rd party games that released a week earlier on the Ps3/360? 1 Week ago? I think this is yet another Sony-Drone type response. ASSCREED3 is a new game that people havent beat yet. Rayman is exclusive, Zombiu exclusive, Bayoneta2 exclusive, .....so what are you talking about Darksiders? like 3 old games and this is only year 1.....which is about to end.
Good luck Sony, your Vita is killed by the Nintendo 3DS but there is still hope for the ps4.
Sony is Lucky nintendo didnt go crazy with their graphics...
If the WiiU's second screen controller proves to be a success with 3rd party devs then I can definitely see MS and Sony following in the footsteps unless the PS4 and NXbox cones with a screen controller standard on release.
"launching new systems is about bringing new consumer experiences to the marketplace and we're doing that with Nintendo land and third-party publishers are doing it with games like ZombiU"
Unfortunately this isn't new to anyone since both those games can find an equivalent on both the 360 and Ps3 in one way or another. The Wii missed out on a lot of great 3rd party titles that have found a core audience on 360/Ps3. Getting those guys to switch to your system is going to be the true challenge.
But the eyetoy was marketed for casual gamers as for the ps eye I believe it's focus was to have a broader appeal than just serving casuals.
It was definitely a reaction.
Not really, it was more like a
"Oh...people are interested in motion controls, well how about that, lets focus on our gimmicks a little more to get involved in this market"
As zebramocha has said above, Sony already had the eyetoy and what we've heard before on here, had the PS Move in development before the Wii came out. They just saw it was a hit and decided to put a focus on it more since they knew it had already been tested on consumers thanks to Nintendo and knew it would sell well.
"Oh...people are interested in motion controls, well how about that, lets focus on our gimmicks a little more to get involved in this market"
How is that not a "reaction". I'm pretty sure that defines reaction.
"had the PS Move in development before the Wii came out."
And you don't think that Nintendo had the Wii in development also? I mean there had to of been R & D on both sides. Just because there was a youtube video of Sony toying with the idea before the Wii came out doens't mean that Nintendo wasn't doing the same. And Nintendo went with it and brought it to the masses first which is really what matters.
"They just saw it was a hit and decided to put a focus on it more since they knew it had already been tested on consumers thanks to Nintendo and knew it would sell well."
Which is a reaction, if I'm not mistaken. There prioritization as Zebra put it was a direct reaction to the success of the Nintendo.
And let me clarify that this is also true for MS/360. (I have to be clear about this due to some recent posts)
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I guess, not really sure what your point is but yes. I guess you meant for the people who buy multiple consoles. I don't see to many people doing this if ever unless you were a hardcore gamer. And I can definitely not see this for next gen. I myself have all three systems but for this next gen I will be sticking to one....maybe two.
"And Nintendo went with it and brought it to the masses first which is really what matters."
What I don't get, is that Nintendo were so quick to ditch the Wiimote's waggle for the tablet controller. I mean you have design principles and have Reggie going all out to tell your audience why it's such a great vision for your company, but then by the time the next generation comes along, the waggle support just goes out the window.
So was the Wiimote a gimmick or what? You say that Nintendo brought it to market first and made something of it in the industry, but that's only worth something if you follow that idea longer than you need to just sell consoles. Where I think the difference lies is that Sony were cautious to release their product first, and always envisioned what was released as Move in 2010. Now that it's 2012 going into 2013 (and a new gen), the Move support is getting stronger and more important for Sony and more relevant for gamers. See: Wonderbook, Until Dawn, Beyond: Two Souls, Portal 2, BioShock Infinite, other third party games and more going into what will no doubt be strong Move support for PS4. Notice that they dropped EyeToy -> EyeToy evolved into PlayStation Eye -> evolved into PS Move -> continues to evolve. It's basically an evolving vision.
Likewise, Nintendo released their tablet/big screen interaction before (sort of) Sony, even though Vita/PS3 interaction was in the works @ Sony before the Wii U was announced. Sounds familiar, right?
But Sony will be labelled the copycat yet again, when the mass media catches on to what Sony is doing with this cross-console interaction. Mark my word. Nintendo might be the ones making the brave, new moves and spurring the industry on, but Sony look to be the ones sticking it through with the tech and the vision.
And as for those who claim Sony had motion controls in the works long before Nintendo, the reality is that the Wii Remote was also in development for a very long time and was originally supposed to be an add on for the Gamecube. So stop with the BS already. Every company experiments with ideas, it all comes down to who implements them first and makes them mainstream. And Nintendo is the company that's does that the most, be it Shoulder buttons,Rumble,Joysticks, Motion controls,Dual screens,wireless,cameras,3D gaming etc.
So they didn't abandon it they expanded it.
"And as for those who claim Sony had motion controls in the works long before Nintendo, the reality is that the Wii Remote was also in development for a very long time and was originally supposed to be an add on for the Gamecube. So stop with the BS already."
1st of all just like the power glove, Nintendo did not develop it, and again with the Wiimote, it was made and brought to Nintendo, thus they licenced other's created technology.
that is 100% true factual what i just posted, and Unless Nintendo had a freaking time machine the people that designed the WiiMote went to Nintendo in 2001, while Sony had their Idea because DR. marks who was just signed on at sony at the time develloped the eye toy already had the core basics for a "Wand" controller design back working with they eye toy @ siggraph 2000! convention they showed the freaking thing already working in front of people at the convention. working on a playstation 2 a year thats again a freaking year even before nintendo was given a demonstration of the wiimote in 2001.
one of the reasons Sony could not release the Move because of the cost of components inside it. back in 2006 the cost of the move controller set up would have been 399.00 for a move, the move directional controller+ an EYETOY thats right the cost of components would have been almost as much as the d@mn PS3!
imagine 599.00+$399.00 for your freaking set up. people cryed and cryed about the PS3 was so expensive if you added move they would have really been crying than..LMAO
Sony had to wait, Even Nintendo had to cut out Motion Plus from the wiimote it would have added another $15.00 to each unit of wiimote back in 2006, Microsoft had to wait for the prime sense 3D camera technology to lower in cost before they could release Kinect.
look at the trends in gaming going forward. a mobile device for gaming connected to a central Hub for the living room, was created and innovated by Nintendo? do not thank so, Apple i pad, android Devices connected to TV's, surface connected to tv's PSP connected to the PS3 for remote access.
notice a freaking theme here. what many see as a innovation is a trend these companies all know what direction each other is going in, they all go to the same d@mn trade shows, some one always get's it out first that does not mean they innovated the d@mn technology and everone else automaticaly copy's their ideas!
I do not know why you got a disagree, because what you said about the ED prime sense technology was infact before the wii was even created, hell DR. marks over @ Sony mentioned he was looking at 3D technology depth perception camera technology back in 2000!
Microsoft was also, the d@mn techology was quite expensive back then. could you imagine the cost of kinect back in 2005?
try adding d@mn near $500.00 to the cost of the xbox360 set up for that technology of kinect back then.
Nice spin, but that's not what he said. He merely said that Sony and Microsoft need to react to Nintendo's own Wii U console, and that's true. They never said Nintendo doesn't react to Sony and Microsoft, because that would be a stupid statement to make, considering Wii U now has a online community, user ID's, HD graphics, etc, which are all reactions to what Sony and Microsoft already offer.
However, I'm not sure if Reggie is right regarding that statement that "It's likely that faster processors and pretty pictures won't be enough to motivate consumers".
Maybe, maybe not. Consumers were definitely motivated with faster processors and prettier pictures with the Xbox 360 and PS3, so I don't know why that couldn't happen again with their sucessors (assuming, of course, that they show a giant leap in power over the Wii U; this is a matter of waiting to see what happens).
I kind of like the idea of not requiring the use of the tv screen to play as well but as I'm not in any position where that effects me so it is rather moot. Still, for families that is a pretty sweet option where someone can game and others watch tv.
I'm more interested in a new Xbox or PS but I might pick up a Nintendo console again at some point which I haven't done in a while (probably not till Zelda or something along those lines).
Kaz:.. My Sony-Senses are tingly... Reggie must be gloating
Jack: I'll prepare for E3
Couple that with the fact that the next Xbox and PS are likely to be at least 2 times more powerful than the Wii U and I see it sitting in the corner collecting dust just like Nintendo's last generation console.
The fact of the matter is that the PS3/360 ARE HD. They at least pushed a few technological envelopes, while the Wii played it safe.
Wow most of this kids just start gaming or something?
In the end it does not metter, they are al gimmick and ruin the true experience unless is fully made for it.
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Because they were infact working on move a full year over before once again Nintendo did not even develop the Wiimote, another company pitched the idea once again like the power glove and Nintendo licenced it. 100% the truth. Nintendo licenced it their first demonstration of this technology to Nintendo was on a projector in 2001 to Nintendo they did not even have the real controler produced yet. While in 2000 at a convention Sony R&D dr. Marks showed off the move concept with a wand type of controller concept working than at the time with the PS2. So yes they infact did.