Mr. President talks about the Wii launch success, games, Virtual Console, Wii online and a lot more stuff.
NOA President Reggie Fils-Aime sat down with MTV News recently, and was asked a myriad of questions about the Wii. Reggie being Reggie, he answered the majority of them with actual answers. Here are some of the things he said.
Right off the bat, Reg pulls no punches when talking about the competition. "We're not arrogant. We don't view success as a right. We feel we need to earn success every day. And we're going to do that by being true to the gamer." He continues to say that although Nintendo is feeling really good after a successful Wii launch, the company knows it's just the start of a long battle. "We're looking at this as about eight days into the mission," said Reggie.
Reggie talked shop about upcoming Wii games. Super Mario Galaxy is coming, but he gave a rather broad release window of between March and December. 2K is apparently working on a baseball game that is a "perfect title for the Wii controller". He also commented on the unfair press that Red Steel is getting about how it takes "a few minutes to get used to the control scheme." (Look for our review of the game later today; it takes more than a few minutes.)
Virtual Console updates will come every Monday, at the rate of "one to five titles" every week. When pressed on why we don't have as many games in America as they do in Japan, Reggie responded that some games "may make perfect sense in Japan but we don't think in our marketplace have a lot of potential." Right.
Besides the online (and almost certainly U.S.-bound) Pokemon Battle Revolution, Fils-Aime also mentioned that "other unannounced online titles" are in development at the moment. We should expect to see some online games coming in one form or another "very early in 2007." Before then, however, Nintendo will be sending Wiis connected to WiiConnect24 a surprise of some sort before Christmas hits. What is it? "I'd hate to ruin the surprise," Reggie said.
There's much more stuff in the MTV article than any summary would provide, so hop on over there to get the full story.