When is Jaffe not pissed?

Besides when Sony is blowing him.

I love how this comment by some PR grunt is attributed to the WHOLE COMPANY!!! Iwata had previously stated that those people who want more storage are the "most avid players" and Nintendo are addressing the issue.

Plus, when do we isten to NOE anyway? I"m sure Laurent Fischer is getting is tongue cut out as we speak. Let it go.

@linuxguy:maybe i should have RTFA before posting

This is just ridiculous. We "geeks and otaku" keep your damn company alive, and you respond by making fun of us!

Nintendo is lucky they still made damn good first party games, otherwise I'd be completely done with them as a company.

Not sure what otaku are (is?) but if that statement was made, it'd probably be a terminable offense. Imagine if someone asked a car company for more cupholders and the response was "only fat, soda-gargling wastes of space need more cupholders."

"...because it's just reeks of junior high school vibe immaturity bullshit."

Isn't this the pot calling the kettle black?

Hate to interrupt but WHAT great first Party games does Nintendo do lately? Seriously look at the Wii, all their "first party" catalog can be summed up in 3 remakes that provide NOTHING new or even interesting: A new mario, a new kart and a new brawl.

Thats it? The DS does not fares much better either. The Wii is successfull because of yuppies making it the next fad ( akin to the iPod ) and the DS is doing strong cause of incredible THIRD PARTY development support, not first party.

Seriously Nintendo has managed to fool so many people: They hardware is vastly inferior on both console and handhelds, their first party support is TERRIBLE and ironically enough ONLY OTAKUS KEEP PLAYING FIRST PARTY NINTENDO GAMES! Seriously you go to any cosplay con and you'd see huge crowds lining up to play brawl or kart. Elsewhere people get things on the 360 or PS3.

I hope somebody fucking nukes Japan again just to get rid of Nintendo.

Come to think of it, I always did sarcastically think that Nintendo would say there's no demand for the additional storage thing. Also they need to count just how many geeks and otaku there are. I know it's Europe and everything, but a cursory look at Nintendo of America's audience would probably floor them.

Jesus, man. You don't have to live up tp your name.

@elliott20:
Actually, you'd be surprised.

JAFFE FOR PRESIDENT!

Jaffe would make for a shitty president, I mean Calling All Cars! Not to mention he doesn't have control over God of War anymore. Not to mention his new development teams first objective was to port an okay PSP game to the PS2 with dismal results. Not to mention he's a falsified badass to the extremities of one Clifford Blezinski. "Ooh, I was on Code Monkeys." No one cares.

<3 Jaffe

Serisouly though. Nintendo doesn't care about the hard core. Why should they when they can sell carnival games till the cows come home.

what pagancollective said

also, i love Jaffe now. He's right. When your audience wants something, you don't discard it because they're "geeks and otakus". They're your costumers so STFU and serve them

I'm with Mr Jaffe on this one. As much as I love Nintendo's product, Nintendo have this attitude sometimes that its customers are wrong, crazy children or something. This PR guy should be careful who he insults, as those so called 'geeks and otaku' helped them where they are today.

I too am amazed that when they originally announced the Wii's spec at E3, that no one (developer or publisher) questioned that decision, to push Nintendo that more memory would be needed, if not for themselves and their games, to convince other second and third parties, to jump onboard enforce.

Its also ironic and darkly funny, that Sony made PS3 too complicated and Nintendo made Wii uncomplicated, lacking techwise, and are still in the lead. 512mb?? Maybe if the console was made 1995, that might be acceptable, but in the 21st century its totally lacking vision.

At times, while I do think developers can work round Wii's shortcomings (PS2 development taught them how), it seems Nintendo made Wii's for themselves first (knowing that their games are never too tech heavy) not thinking of other developers at all. If they had, there would be a hard drive.

For us consumers to be dismissed by Nintendo, when we question the awkwardness of friend codes, lack of sd card booting, and not even an external hard drive for demos and such, is ridiculous. Even if Nintendo produced an extenal, it need not be vital for casuals to buy, unless they want the extra content and advantages, in a Xbox Live kind of way. Its not hard to show developers and consumers some love, to help Wii in areas its current weak in.

I hope Nintendo do sort a hard drive out for Wii, but overall its this kind of thing that worried me when Nintendo HQ restructured a few years ago. Even before that, Nintendo's selectively ignoring of customers goes way back. The GC had its problems and I guess they thought us customers would never leave them. Most of us didn't, but most the developers did in time, and the GC slowly died an early death. Are Nintendo still bitter from those dark days, hugely of their own making? Maybe so.

When Nintendo do listen to us and fix problems that are fixable, they are really good with their customer service, their recent examples being the Wiimote jacket to stop fool smashing tvs, DS problems with its screen improved in DS Lite and before that the GBA screen problems improved by GBA SP. So, if Nintendo can fix these problems, why not fix the Wii hard drive issue too, and stop fudging it?

I guess E3 08' will tell all. We'll soon know how much they love/hate us.

Not that Jaffe isn't right, but it feels a little forced coming from such a world class douche-bag like him. That dude opens his mouth, and stupid shit spills out, like vomit from the mouth of a frat boy after a Friday night spent playing beer pong at a party. It sort of makes it hard to take him seriously.

Also, who the fuck asked him anyway?

What CryingTheAnnualKingo, NightDehumidifier, Cyberxion said. Sure God of War is a great franchise but Jaffe is a cunt. Also @Misanthrope You were so close but you didn't get there, we don't need Japan nuked we just need Nintendo to pull a Sega.

You mean I gotta blame YOU. Sequels is not the problems, some sequels really do advance things up and introduce enough elements to be a game on its own and some non sequels are like almost carbon copies.

Nintendo just happens to be doing both at the same time ( Sequels in name and also repetitive as hell ) but don't you go around blaming me for it, I put my money where my mouth is and do go out of my way to find oscure games that offer new things or don't try to copy everything else.

So yes I intend to bitch, whine, scream and unleash Japan's weak point ( NIntendo ) for massive damage. Cause maybe some tools outta snap out of it and stop this mess, what I know is that nothing will change if I just shut my mouth about it since 1 person ain't gonna make a difference in sales.

I got nothing more to say on this.

Next, please!

When NoE can release their games in a timely manner, I'll care about what they have to say.

Pulls no punches

@ Misanthrope

No, rather than shift the blame to me in some sort of nonsensical "I know you are, but what am I?" play at superiority, what you need to do is get your head out of your ass, whipe the shit out of your eyes, and take a look at reality.

Pick any sequel from any given publisher out of a hat, and you'll find a game that features incremental changes to the underlying formula established by its predecessor. Sequels are sort of supposed to do that, as unreasonable as it might seem. They have to remain appealing to fans of the previous game, while featuring enough to set it aside as its own entity.

Reading what you said, it's clear that you understand that much. However, what you lack is the ability to distance your perception of industry trends from whatever it is that drives you to be such a fucking troll. You have an irrational hard-on for hating Nintendo, when at worst they're just doing the exact same thing that every publisher does with their sucessful IPs. It might not be desirable to you, but they don't deserve ire for it any more than say, Capcom, Koei, Rockstar, EA, and just about any other publisher that turns out sequels to their popular games.

You might justify your trolling by saying that it's for the betterment of the industry, but not only is your crusade made worthless because you're being such a narrow-minded fuck about it, but you're assuming that we all ought to share your way of thinking in the first place. More to the point, you seem to think that we're being force-fed these sequels, when I'm pretty sure that the people who buy them do so of their own free will. I would think that that's why they keep being made.

So I would say that all that is required of you, if anything, is that you keep plugging away at getting your message across by letting your wallet do the talking for you, and that you stop being such a presumptuous douche-rag. That's where your responsibility both begins and ends.

I'm for thinking this is Nintendo of Europe geting too happy with the Casuals.
Cuz they don't need to slave at the computer for hours on end to translate wii fit or it's lik for one thing.

I can imagine this comes off a long and arguous session of translating SSBB and as such, he/she/it feels intitled to a free swing at the very people who want to buy that game and thus nessesitate the long time it took for the thing to come out.

or something.

Statements from European offices always tend to be pretty stupid, and the fact that this is being attributed to "Nintendo" and not NoE like it should be is pretty ridiculous.

I agree with him. I'm dissapointed in my Wii's lack of quality games, and Nintendo's major releases such as Mario Kart and Brawl have just been tailored for noob-friendliness. It pisses me off.