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Forums - Nintendo - Denise Kaigler: No Price cut and don't blame NOA for lack of Fatal Frame

alfredofroylan on 26 March 2009

Then Who's going to recive all my rage???

http://www.n-sider.com/contentview.php?contentid=3855

First of all, as you may have read in our exclusive newsbite a short time ago, the famed "Wii-kly Update" is changing its name to "Nintendo Download" starting April 6, after the DSi releases. It will include WiiWare, Virtual Console (including Arcade), and DSiWare announcements. I also asked her about how easy Wii is to find on shelves now.

She told us the recent availability of Wii on store shelves is a direct result of Nintendo's pledge to increase stock by 50% in stores, and the out-of-stock rate at retailers is now only 10%. Nintendo unsurprisingly has no plans to reducing the price of the Wii, even in light of the Xbox360 Arcade's low price point. As it's still selling strong, there is no reason to do so.

The number of Japanese titles that don't make it over has been a burning question in a number of folks' minds, so I asked about how that works. Denise told me Nintendo of America actually has very-little-to-no say about which titles escape Japan to go worldwide; NCL makes all decisions when porting games to new regions.

Nintendo's E3 2009 press conference will be held in the a.m. on June 2nd. There is a possibility it will not be held at the Kodak theatre; but no further information was provided.

And my fatal Frame???



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BrainBoxLtd on 26 March 2009
alfredofroylan said:

Denise told me Nintendo of America actually has very-little-to-no say about which titles escape Japan to go worldwide; NCL makes all decisions when porting games to new regions.

NCL? That mean Nintendo's corporate HQ in Japan?

 



exindguy on 26 March 2009
BrainBoxLtd said:
alfredofroylan said:

Denise told me Nintendo of America actually has very-little-to-no say about which titles escape Japan to go worldwide; NCL makes all decisions when porting games to new regions.

NCL? That mean Nintendo's corporate HQ in Japan?

 

Yes and the same story goes for the vast, vast majority of US subsidiaries of Japanese corps (their parents in Japan call *all* the shots).

 




megaman79 on 27 March 2009

Im going to Japan with a pitch fork and a flaming torch


You know ever since ign equated Nintendo with Willy Wonka i can't see them any other way. Rock and Roll Climber to appease core gamers, huh?

They better have a mutha f-----en super explosion, blacker than the blackest black, metal extreme, hardcore, brain rotting, eye ball f------ng (avatar reference there), Scrumpdiddleumptious E3 this yr.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

saicho on 27 March 2009

@alfredofroylan

You should direct your rage to Miyamoto at E3 this year... Being such a nice guy he is, he will probably apologize then make sure the game comes over to the west right away!



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

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alfredofroylan on 27 March 2009

@saicho
Miyamoto has little power on wich games come to America and wich not ....... I'm going to direct my rage to Iwata.



saicho on 27 March 2009

Miyamoto has connections to make it happen... but go directly to the boss is good too!



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.

Onyxmeth on 27 March 2009

Oh great. It's shit like this that brought down Sega.



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exindguy on 27 March 2009

Well, Sega's Japanese management was orders of magnitude more inept/arrogant than Nintendo's, so I wouldn't worry too much about the same fate ultimately befalling Nintendo.




Onyxmeth on 27 March 2009
exindguy said:
Well, Sega's Japanese management was orders of magnitude more inept/arrogant than Nintendo's, so I wouldn't worry too much about the same fate ultimately befalling Nintendo.

I'm not saying it will progress past this, but it's unsettling to know they might be practicing some of the same things that caused another gaming corporation to crumble. I believe if Nintendo is going to have an American division then they should hire people trustworthy to run it, including which games are appropriate to translate and bring over to their region.

 



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