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Title: The Reggie speaks
Post by: Blackknight131 on August 12, 2004, 11:45:38 AM: Linked from IGN...Reggie's address made on 10th August.

A pretty good speech he made, methinks.
Interesting talk of the DS...

Anyway, didnt see anyone mention it here yet, so hope you guys have a good read.
Title: RE:The Reggie speaks
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 12, 2004, 12:24:49 PM: Quote
We do not for a minute argue that Sega's Game Gear in the 90's wasn't technically superior to our Game Boy—after all, it featured a color screen. Back then, Game Boy's screen was color, too—as long as you didn't want more than one color.

I had this same argument with a friend many many years ago. I had a gameboy and he had a gamegear.
He didn't seem to mind the mono screen of the GB after his GG died and he didn't have enough money for 6 more aa batteries.
Title: RE:The Reggie speaks
Post by: Bill Aurion on August 12, 2004, 12:30:29 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: BlackNMild2k1
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We do not for a minute argue that Sega's Game Gear in the 90's wasn't technically superior to our Game Boy—after all, it featured a color screen. Back then, Game Boy's screen was color, too—as long as you didn't want more than one color.

I had this same argument with a friend many many years ago. I had a gameboy and he had a gamegear.
He didn't seem to mind the mono screen of the GB after his GG died and he didn't have enough money for 6 more aa batteries.

Ahahaha! That's the epitome of argumentation there...

And I give a for no mudslinging...
Title: RE: The Reggie speaks
Post by: norebonomis on August 12, 2004, 02:05:49 PM: did he say internet browser? :: pees pants ::
Title: RE: The Reggie speaks
Post by: Bill Aurion on August 12, 2004, 02:11:09 PM: He said that one COULD be made, but you should already know that Ninty won't be the one who makes it(this was said by Miyamoto in a previous interview)...
Title: RE:The Reggie speaks
Post by: Chongman on August 12, 2004, 02:21:59 PM: that was a great read...and I agree with everything...*i think...*

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The DS will be equipped to wirelessly connect 16 players in close proximity to a single game.

*droools*....
Title: RE: The Reggie speaks
Post by: kirby_killer_dedede on August 12, 2004, 03:35:45 PM: Terific speech, brings up some great points. I've been trying to emphasize this to every PSP-whore I know, and that is that the DS itself is multifunctionality...but unlike Sony, the gaming itself is multifunctional, which is much more appealing to a gamer, and therefore Sony gamers aren't truly...well, to be put frankly, they aren't really gamers, because that clearly isn't what Sony's aim is. Nintendo is more than about trying to make money (this is another fact I interpreted from the speech), but they WANT to entertain you. Sony is doing every possible thing so that they can be profitable, while Nintendo cares more about the consumer than themselves.

EDIT: Hopefully, IGN will fix the link to the media page...I want a freaking audio download (if they got one)!!

EDIT 2: Found my way to the media page...no audio file, sniffle...right here for those who care.
Title: RE: The Reggie speaks
Post by: Bloodworth on August 12, 2004, 11:49:39 PM: Nintendo sent this speech out to everyone pretty much. I'm not sure if IGN was actually present. We tossed around some ideas on how to handle it, but finally just put up the whole thing.
Title: RE: The Reggie speaks
Post by: Mario on August 13, 2004, 03:27:29 PM: Quote
while Nintendo cares more about the consumer than themselves.

HAHAHAHAHAHA
Title: RE: The Reggie speaks
Post by: Polemistis on August 15, 2004, 11:10:13 AM: All of Reggies followers will now start drinking blackberrey ^_^
Title: RE: The Reggie speaks
Post by: KDR_11k on August 15, 2004, 09:42:33 PM: I think the kind of blackberry he was talking about was not edible...
Title: RE:The Reggie speaks
Post by: Jale on August 15, 2004, 11:48:29 PM: Oh really KDR?
Watch me 0_o
Title: RE: The Reggie speaks
Post by: Draygaia on August 16, 2004, 06:57:18 AM: "In fact, when asked to identify the most important advance in game play over the last 10 years, 90% of both PC and console players said graphics. But in terms of onscreen display, consider where we now stand. In a business where artists and game designers were always forced to compromise—how many pixels to do this? How much shading can I afford for that?—the compromises are all but gone. If you can see it or imagine it, you can probably put it on screen—in convincing fashion. From this point forward, graphical advances may be far more theorhetical than observable. Just like a consumer hooking up a progressive scan dvd player to a non-progressive scan tv, better technology may be there—but you can't see it."

Wow!

"Some of those answers are updated with an ESA study released in June. First, among those who do play games online, there is an overwhelming preference to do so on their PC's, as opposed to their game consoles. Second, despite some rosy predictions, growth in online gaming is relatively flat year-on-year. Third, the favorite genres are puzzle, board and trivia games…not action fare. And fourth, less than 8 percent are paying to play online."

Wow again. I still want online but I think a lot of people out there only want online and probably never use it to make themselves feel better about the machine they have.

"A few quick examples. I imagine there might be someone out there who once upon a time after a few too many beers dropped a few too many quarters in Pac-Man and pong machines in a local watering hole. But those same games never significantly drove sales of any home game system.
Why does Flight Simulator seem to work on PC…but have little or no value anywhere else? Tetris was a phenomenal success on Game Boy…but a lesser success elsewhere."

Wow! Its amazing he talked about that since I always wondered why.

"On the issue of older gamers, we're aiming squarely at those who clearly put game play first…those who are most hungry for a new approach. The earliest adopters for DS will be those who are also the freest thinkers. The trendsetters. The same people, I guess you could say, who were first to snap up their blackberries and iPods."

Wow cubed! I feel so much better about myself!
Title: RE: The Reggie speaks
Post by: kirby_killer_dedede on August 16, 2004, 02:36:23 PM: BTW, us Hyrule campers get to actually...chat...live...WITH REGGIE!!...tomorrow night.

EDIT: My bad, guys...it's not till the...20th!!
Title: RE: The Reggie speaks
Post by: kurst_chao3030 on August 16, 2004, 04:19:52 PM: YAY!!!! So do i... what does w00t mean? I'm windwaker2020 or 3030.... at nintendo.
Title: RE:The Reggie speaks
Post by: Bill Aurion on August 16, 2004, 04:46:13 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: kurst_chao3030
what does w00t mean?

Who knows?
Title: RE:The Reggie speaks
Post by: Draygaia on August 16, 2004, 05:21:55 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: kirby_killer_dedede
BTW, us Hyrule campers get to actually...chat...live...WITH REGGIE!!...tomorrow night.

Gosh thats kicka$$!!! *goes crazy with a chainsaw*
Title: RE:The Reggie speaks
Post by: nickmitch on August 17, 2004, 11:56:37 AM: That'll have to be one of the 3 times I'm accually logging on to camp hyrule (go cabin 4!) since school starts on the 19th for me!