He's probably "quitting" so that he can stop receiving so many e-mails for a while. He mentioned how he gets 'tons', mmore than he has the time to answer.

When he replies to them all, he'll reappear. Besides, its Christmas!

He purposely misconstrue those quotes to make his argument. No such UGC movement was planned, and until he shows concrete evidence it's only a knee jerk explanation on his part. And Animal Crossing is now a "UGC" game? Malstrom clearly labeled it a GameCube 2.0 title before he went on his wild theory ranting.

Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's CEO, has said the company will focus on user-generated content as the future of interactive entertainment.

Speaking at the BMO Interactive Entertainment conference, Fils-Aime talked of the end of "passive entertainment" and explained how videogames were ideally positioned to take advantage of this.

"If you're in the entertainment business, any kind of entertainment, this is the game changer because no longer is entertainment a one way street of content created for audiences that just sit back and absorb it," Fils-Aime said. "The era of passive entertainment is waning, active entertainment is where the action is."

"Entertainment consumers are moving from react to interact," he added. "Now fortunately form the start this shift has worked to the advantage of everyone at videogames. It is who we are… Videogames have always been at the front lines of active entertainment and its revolution."

He went on to underline Nintendo's past and future focus on user-generated content, going as far to quote, Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, saying: "We believe that building a foundations where players' creativity is harnessed and the results are shared is becoming increasingly important."
-http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/user-generated-content-future-of-videogames-says-fils-aime

Seems pretty clear they were gonna focus on user generated content

User Generated Content only works when you have a complete product full of content and have UGC as an aside. UGC should NEVER be the main attraction, only a complementary feature. Otherwise, you get letdowns like Wii Music or failures like Blast Works.

An ill-advised hoax, if hoax it is. Maybe he's just satirizing recent IGN meltdowns.

If not, then he's far whinier than i imagined.

Is someone able to explain the differences in the new box and the old box? I didn't quite get it from the pic.

@Innervate: To add what vanatos said, there's Flipnote Studio, Style Boutique, Wario Ware DIY, Wii Music and some other titles from Nintendo, that are based around UGC. Nintendo's UGC direction was clearly visible even without Nintendos executives stating it.

However, i don't think the problem with Wii Music was as much UGC as it was the time it takes to learn how to play the game. Because of this, Wii Music is the exact opposite to what the "Wii" games are about.

The new boxes have holes on it hence the pic. it only fill with paper cut outs. If yoiu're a collector throw away the new boxes buy a new blank white DVD case and insert the paper cover into the new one

@yushire: Ok. Thanks. That sucks, i hope the boxes don't appear around here.
But why in the hell the holes have to be where the disc is. The box is supposed to protect the disc and the holes remove the protection (to an extent).

Dont blame Nintendo or MS for this, if not they should've done this long time ago trust me. Blame the global elites and greenpeace on this, are anyone noticed that its only the NA are doing this BS even on DVDs and Blu Rays even 2 years ago? Environmentalism was  a scam, global warming was a scam. Anyone remembered the ozone layer hole? Gaming companies arent the one who blame on this. Theyre just pressured lets not forget the LONG RECESSION and unemployment and tent cities and the universal health care just passed on the house even though the majority of americans dont want it.

Truth to be told, its greenpeace and Wal Mart who owned by the chinese government are behind this. More less quality products made by US means more cheap labor from China and 3rd world country like us. The quality of plastics here in the philippines are too sturdy that even you fall the DVD case accidentally the CD wont fall of or broken. I seen it on my own experience. But the eco friendly dvd case LOL do you know 3rd world countries like India and China are laughing on the US right now with these environmentalism BS? As of now India and China are the 2 of the countries that produce most carbon emissions in the whole world and Europe and US and Canada didnt take it an isssue.

WAKE UP. Most of the labor that produced in the whole world are from third world countries the US empire have nothing anymore. A country once productive and exporters of cars are now replaced by Cherry, a car knockoff company from china.

So its becoming standard?

While it seemed not a big deal, if it is actually easy to break (whether my own use or transport), then yeh i can see how it would be a deal, i get damn pissed when those big ass price stickers shops used to put on the front of cases leave that huge ripped paper thing on it.