Reggie Fils-Aime, everybody’s favourite pizza man turned game exec, is a terror on the road. The Nintendo of America president thinks it’s OK to drive like Mario Kart in real life. You know, burning rubber and throwing heat-seeking turtle shells.
Let’s get the one uncool thing about Nintendo of America’s headquarters out of the way first: They won’t let visitors take pictures of the best parts of the building.
Credit to Forbes for pressing Nintendo of America’s president, Reggie Fils-Aime, on the take-it-anywhere capabilities of the Wii U’s touch-screen controller.
I’ve always felt that Nintendo is unique in the way it tends to create controllers tailored around a new kind of gaming experience. Instead of imitating, they decide what kind of game they want to sell, and build from that point. To an extent, that’s why I was a little disappointed with the Wii U.
Bad enough to write Nintendo a letter? On actual paper? That’s what some passionate North American Nintendo fans have resorted to, pleading with paper and ink for Nintendo of America to bring more Wii games stateside, including The Last Story, Pandora’s Tower and Xenoblade.
We’ve been playing the same old Wii since 2006, which makes the calls for Nintendo to create a new Wii – Wii HD! Wii 2? Wii-As-Powerful-As-The-Xbox-360!?! – about… four years old. As recently as last November, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime was telling Kotaku that it wasn’t time to talk about a new Wii yet.
There will be a gold Nintendo Wii Remote Plus coming out late this year. Nintendo plans to bundle some of them with the new Zelda, Skyward Sword, and sell others separately.
Speaking to Kotaku earlier today, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime revealed that while the Wii U will still be compatible with Wii software, its predecessor’s backward compatibility with the GameCube will not be making an appearance.
