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Roma said:

I did say it had some bad things

They never really bothered me. I prefer this over regular controls but thats personal preference of course

I hope they give us a better Motion controller later on for WiiU but if they don’t that’s ok

I enjoyed Skyward Sword quite a lot.  I prefered it over OoT, MM, and TP to some extent as well.
But with WW and TP (on GameCube), they refined the "classic controls" to make them literally flawless.  Now with Skyward Sword, controls, while very fun, did have issues.

When I have to trade controls without any issues with controls that do have issues, the question isn't really difficult to answer for me as to what I prefer.

That being said, SS is the first game in the series with such controls.  It took them 3 games to get to the flawless "classic" controls (with WW).  So I suppose things will get better in the upcoming games...



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forest-spirit said:
trasharmdsister12 said:
forest-spirit said:
I wonder if I will be able to watch this without feeling an urge to punch Reggie in the face.

After watching that interview, I think you should be more worried about feeling that way about the lady in black.


I actually liked her. She really did her best to join the discussion even though she apparently know zero about games (Wii Yoga?). I'm worried about whoever decided to put her there.

And her dress was fabulous.



That's Eliza Dushku !, great as fainth and in Dollhouse, maybe not so great as a gamer ;)

Mr Khan said:
Rainbird said:

1) Then why even include analogue sticks in the first place?

2) The 3DS is not like the Wii though. A better reference would be the Wii U as it is also a dual screen device, sort of, with a stylus and touchscreen. And with the Wii U, Nintendo is returning to dual analogues.

3) Better controls for a number of games by the looks of things.

The original point of this is that Nintendo doesn't (and indeed shouldn't) do things just because "the industry" or "conventional wisdom" says so. The circle pad pro is a fine addition as an option, but i would argue that it isn't necessary (but not unwelcome). Far too much significance was given to it after it's announcement

And it is so for many things. This generation proved that many of the things the industry clamors for are low on consumers' priorities lists ultimately, but are not unwelcome things.

And that I agree with. But considering how Nintendo wants to cater to third parties, I find the decision not to include a second analogue stick from beginning to be baffling. Developers and consumers alike were expressing their desire for it throughout the entirety of the last generation, and it's hardly an expensive inclusion.



Why were those two women there? They contributed nothing to the conversations and only the blond seemed to actually maybe know how to play video games. I'll have to commend Reggie for being able to move through that interview with people who aren't even interested in your gaming medium at all.

I'll still never understand why people don't like Reggie I have the feeling it isn't actually nintendo fans that have a problem with him.



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pokeclaudel said:
Why were those two women there? They contributed nothing to the conversations and only the blond seemed to actually maybe know how to play video games. I'll have to commend Reggie for being able to move through that interview with people who aren't even interested in your gaming medium at all.

I'll still never understand why people don't like Reggie I have the feeling it isn't actually nintendo fans that have a problem with him.


People are angry at him for things that aren't really his fault. Like the whole Operation Rainfall thing and him not revealing enough in interviews when he obviously isn't allowed to.

He still maintains his legendary status though. The regginator will not be going anywhere for a while.



Seece said:

'We don't care what our competitors are doing, we don't care what the wider entertainment industry is doing'

If that's true, that's such a terrible way for a company to run itself


well it works for them.  could you imagine where they would be without wii?  they also brought in a massive amount of "casuals".  push ms to go even further with kinect. and then sony ... well

wiiu definitely looks interesting so you have to give it to them for trying to be innovative



Roma said:
Mummelmann said:
Roma said:
Mummelmann said:
Seece said:

'We don't care what our competitors are doing, we don't care what the wider entertainment industry is doing'

If that's true, that's such a terrible way for a company to run itself


Yet, they implement HD graphics, touchscreen, more online functionality and 3D in their present and near-future devices... I smell bullcrap from Reggie.


lol with that logic they should have stayed in the NES era


Of course things need to move on without the need of them caring what others are doing. you don’t do things just because you care of what others are doing but because you want to continue evolving for your own sake

People like to twist Reggies words to make them look bad yet what he means is that they like to do things their own way.

Reggie what happened to you?!  

Evolving is fine, being against tech simply because others use it is not. Perhaps they should focus more on "we implement -insert tech or feature- because" rather than "lol, -insert tech or feature here- is silly and/or not needed". It makes them look arrogant and silly (especially when they suddenly offer the same themelseves), especially Reggie gives Nintendo a bad face in my opinion.

I don't know why a lot of people seem to believe that;

A: Nintendo cannot be arrogant, after all, they make different consoles and games!

B: Nintendo are immune to mistakes and declines.

People love to use history to show how Wii tracked above the PS2, how a market leader is always followed by another market leader etc but seem to forget that points A and B are utterly and completely false according to history.

If and when MS and Sony make announcements that seem strange the reaction is mostly; "Lol, what the hell are they thinking!?" while Nintendo gets more of; "They know what they're doing, you don't get to be market leader by being an idiot". Reggie gives the air and body of the latter sentence and is percieved (rather correctly) as a somewhat arrogant know-it-all with a bad attitude and complete lack of respect for the competition.


Well when Wii came out not many had HD TV’s so it was not that big a deal for them but now people have HD TV’s so they see that it is the right time just like how they will not focus on 3D because not many do have 3D TV’s yet did implement it on 3DS because it was glassless and it is for one person at a time.

Nintendo is against tech all of a sudden because they did not implement HD? So we automatically forget what they have done in the past and the introduction of motion to gaming?

Nintendo should include every tech in the WiiU because if they don’t that means they are against it

Sure some people think because your number one this gen you will next gen as well but those are ignorant as things change. I’ve never said that so I don’t know why you bring that up. They might be on top again and they might be last who knows. You can ask Pachter and whatever he says it will be the opposite

Reggie has been saying things with a bad tone that I don’t like either but it is far less than what others say. But what he says here I don’t see it the way you do I see it more like “you guys should know by now that we do things our way so stop asking us if we will do what others are doing”. But if you dislike someone you would translate that to a more negative understanding of what he said.


The reason I bring those points up is simply to illustarte why a lot of people don't like Reggie, Reggie's biggest fans are often those who go by those points.

I would never accuse you of thinking this way, you've been here a loooong time and I know you to be among the most sensible users in here.

Anyways, like I said; its fine for Nintendo to include tech but it sounds stupid when they claim that its plain unneccessary and then turn around and off it themselves. Kind of like MS' early gen antics with the "Blu-ray is stupid, this is not a video machine", WHAM; HD-DVD add-on. "The Core is a good idea, you don't need a harddrive", WHAM; you do need a harddrive and the Core was phased out. Integrated wi-fi? "Bullshit." WHAM etc.

I appreciate that Reggie wants to appear confident and speak well for his company but he could do with a small dose of humility and appreciation towards the competition and, last but not least, his employers in Japan whose tone is often very different and a lot more meek (if not one hundred present clever at all times, "online is superfluous" and such things speak against them).