I DID meet Reggie Fils-Aime today!

[Nintendude1189]

So, it turns out that the Regginator is a graduate of Cornell University. Tomorrow he's coming back to his alma mater to give a presentation, and since I'm also an undergrad student at Cornell, I'm obviously gonna go see it!

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Faculty of Computing and Information Science (CIS) present: "Gaming for the Masses - How Nintendo is Making Video Gaming Mainstream"

featuring Reginald Fils-Aime CALS'83 , President/COO, Nintendo of America, Inc.

From Cornell Grad to Video Games Guru. Meet outspoken Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime – aka Regginator - and get a behind-the-scenes look from this successful Cornell alumnus into the world of Nintendo. Find out about his rise to the top, why Wii is such a success and how the Regginator plans to keep the company in the limelight.

They are also giving away a free Wii at the event to one random person who came, and the pool is pretty small, so I have an okay shot at it. Also afterwards there's a reception along with "Interactive Gaming of Wii." Does that mean I might be able to school Reggie in Wii Sports, or even possibly the Brawl demo if he brings that?

pyh189 and Mario64Master are also going

[stelzig]

Man if the brawl demo gets there when it's not even coming to D3 (scandinavian version of E3) then i'm gonna get pissed =X

Other than that it sounds zoompie

[蹴飛冥]

I thought you were gonna meet Regis Philbin today when I first glanced at this topic >_>

but that is zoompie NA. Tell us what happens =)

[Nintendude1189]

I got a picture with him and shook his hand! He also sort of unveiled some new stuff! I gotta run so I'll tell you guys later in more detail!

[Crono]

Wow that's zoompie i'll be waiting for the details =)

[Nintendude1189]

So it actually happened! The auditorium had maybe 150 people there, and I sat in the front row with some friends. Reggie and his podium were literally 10 feet away from me! The whole thing can be best described as a more personalized E3 without the new games. He said a lot of things he says everywhere but added some stuff about business and his advice on how to succeed. Here's some particularly zoompie things though:

-Reggie unveiled some actual Wii controller prototypes. The oldest one looked kinda like a flattened out GCN controller. It looked ridiculous and it's obvious why that didn't get anywhere. The next one was a big circular disk with a big star button in the middle. That's right folks. The controller had 1 button. Reggie said that when they showed it to Miyamoto he laughed and said it was way too simple. The other two were really interesting and close to the final design. One looked like a Wii Remote with a pivot in its center. It basically allowed half the controller to be flipped over revealing a 2nd button scheme. The other was basically the Wii Remote with a different style D-pad. it had a center button and 4 directional buttons circling it. Also, all the controllers were the shiny black of the ORIGINAL Revolution before the color was changed to white and the name was changed.

-Wii Sports was tested with Nintendo characters rather than Miis but they ultimately went with the Miis. Miis are based off of some sort of Japanese sculptures but I forgot the name.

-Mario Kart Wii comes out in Spring '08. I'm not sure if that was previously known.

-A major 3rd party developer who Reggie said he didn't want to name has talked to Retro Studios and Nintendo about the Metroid Prime 3 control scheme. The developer wants to make a new FPS for Wii with the quality MP3 controls. This was in response to a question about the terrible quality of 3rd party titles. Reggie hinted at the fact that Nintendo is willing to offer help to companies that come to them for it.

-Nintendo will be selling Wii Dev kits to the general public for WiiWare! They will cost ~$1500 though.... Also he said he might donate a dev kit to Cornell haha.

-Mother 3 is not being brought to the US because Nintendo thinks that its other priorities are much more important. Reggie seemed extremely sympathetic towards the Earthbound fanbase though. He knows about its really strong cult following.

-Reggie, in his spare time, currently enjoys playing Phantom Hourglass, Brain Age, Mario Galaxy (he got his copy already), MP3, the Halo trilogy, and Bioshock. He was going over the consoles one-by-one. When he got to the PS3 he stuttered and just sort of grinned and the whole audience started cracking up. It's pretty clear that Reggie thinks the PS3 is doing really pathetically but he never came out and said it. He just let the audience do all the talking. He also said something along the lines of "for all of you out there who own a PS3, well....hope you get some good games for it someday."

That's all I can remember at the moment. At the end Reggie sort of watched us play some Wii Sports. I was playing Power Throws with Mario64Master and some other guys and Reggie saw us attempting the 10th frame trick. I saw him explain to someone what we were trying to do, though unfortunately nobody pulled it off.

Picture!



I was debating whether or not to show my face but I decided nah in the end <_<

[蹴飛冥]

wow NA that sounds awesome ... sucks about no mother3 US release though =x

now it is time for all the members to find or draw funny faces over the blank space where NA's head should be then upload them <_<

[mimorox]

[1221]

that's hilarious

[LinksDarkArrows]

That sounds rather interesting, Nintendude. Mario Kart Wii being set back to Spring 2008 isn't that bad. We probably wouldn't want to play anything else but Brawl anyway. (Or at least until Spring)

Mimorox = win

Here's my version of what's behind the white rectangle:



Oh. Nintendude = short. <_<

[syeb]

mimorox said:

XD

[Astr0]

He seems like a really nice guy, I would love to meet him.

[FlamingSlayer]

Thats sounds pretty zoompie, Nintendude. Too bad you couldnt play him in a game or two

Mimo > Awesome edit

LDA > He kind of looks like a shy guy

[蹴飛冥]

I keep looking at mimo's edit, it is so mesmerizing XD

[Crono]

r1k said:

I keep looking at mimo's edit, it is so mesmerizing XD

Same here xd

Ok i'll have to wait for Mario Kart then, but i will have fun with brawl in that while =P

[Sword of Seals]

Nice news Nintendude, That sounds awesome.

You even got a picture with him
XD at Mimorox and LDA's Edits.

FlamingSlayer : Look at Nintendude's avatar, Then look at LDA's Edit again

Now. For my edit. X)

I have uncovered the real Nintendude. What I think Is behind
that white rectangle. XD

Ignore the silly white rectangle on the right >_>

[Crono]

d**n, i wanted to post with Popo's face, ok here is my new one >_>, nothing compared to the others but meh:



Forget about the bad and fast editing <_<''
I didn't find any frame face =/

[jerry3333]

we should almost make this a game >_>

[Nintendude1189]

LOL
This is hilarious XD

[mimorox]

[jerry3333]

mimorox for editing god lmao XD

[Sword of Seals]

XD

Mimorox = Winner

LMAO

[mimorox]

I'll do more when I don't have tons of homework >_>

In other words the weekend

[jerry3333]

I suggest that we take a picture every now and then, and everyone tries to edit it in a funny way ­>_>

[Sword of Seals]

Yeah, I agree =)

But for now, I wanna see more of Mimirox's edits on Nintendude's Picture. At the weekend though. =)

Maybe It could be like a karma competition.

[stelzig]

*exalts mimorox* ;D

[蹴飛冥]

XD @ what I did to this topic =p

[Crono]

This was not the best pick i could find, but i was too lazy to search well, and after that i realized thet it miss half of his helmet so . . .



He's your half father

[mimorox]

[stelzig]