I think he is right.

But when you look at all the games Nintendo gave us you would understand why we want more and more.

Does he also blame gamers for his impossibly large chin?

I liked these comments, I don't fully agree with them, but it made me feel that Nintendo are REALLY TRYING to satisfy us all and made them seem more human.

So yeah, Reggie saying I can't be satisfied makes me like Reggie more. Weird.

I'm a Nintendo Ambassador.

Reggie Fils-Amie has a nice chin.


BOOM. I WIN THIS ARGUMENT.

He's absolutely spot on correct.

Gamers aren't offering blowjobs and 'my body is ready' jokes over the sequel to Wii Fit and what seems to amout to Mario Party, Mii-style?



He kinda does have a point about Pikmin 3 tho.

Huh. I kind of agree with him.

He's kind of right, but Nintendo is still a bit out of touch.

Reggie's right. Gamers are never happy. I mean it's like you guys didn't even see the Nintendoland fireworks.

Out of touch doesn't even begin to describe the disconnect.

It's like ordering chocolate cake and being served a brownie with a shit frosting and dog turd sprlinkled over it. Yes, you sorta gave us what we wanted, but their's no way in hell I'm taking a bite out of that cake.
Nintendo is responding to demands with half-assed games aimed at casual gamers.
And I can't beleive he compared Smash Bros. to Nintendo Land. And if you want to respond toi fans' demands so much, how come Mother 3 still hasn't been released in America yet?

No no, reg. I just think that your latest offering is amazingly mediocre.

@sexbomb, I don't think Jim Sterling is saying that the gaming public isn't insatiable, nor that Reggie Fils-Aime is incorrect in that way. I think he's pointing out the disconnect between what "gamers want" and what "the mainstream consumer" buys. That Reggie thinks like a businessman here, rather than a gamer, simply associating high sales with the kind of content gamers want.

What? An industry elite being "woefully out of touch" with the gaming community at large and then specifically blames gamers - not themselves - for gamers losing interest with their products? I wonder if this trend will catch on...

Yep. Basically, Reggie is right on a few points, but he's right in the wrong way.

There are some things he said that's right, but the things Nintendo highlighted during E3 were completely out of touch with the audience - Wii Fit, Sing, Nintendo Land (a mini game collection), and games that already released on other consoles (Batman, Mass Effect) weren't a good way to spend their time.

If Nintendo showed more of the core games they had like Fire Emblem, Castlevania: Mirror of Fate, P-100, a few of the new releases WiiUWare releases they had on the floor, in additions to showing off Pikmin, Rayman Legends, and ZombiU, announced Mario as a launch title, and named a price during the press conference, they would have shattered E3.

I think Reggie's point wasn't that gamers should get hard at the idea of Wii Fit, but they should at least be able to recognize the difference between something mediocre and something that just isn't for them. Gamers think just because THEY don't care about Wii Fit that NOBODY does and that Nintendo shouldn't spend any time on it.

He's also right about Nintendo fans being insatiable. They showed off Pikmin and Mario, but people were still raging out over the lack of Animal Crossing and Zelda. If Nintendo doesn't show off every franchise they have at once, they get accused of ignoring their fanbase.

Who watches E3, not people excited to hear about Wii Fit, or Nintendo Land I'm afraid, games that people who are into games as a main hobby are what people want from E3, Ubisoft mostly seemed to know that.

No one will ever love video games as much as us. No one. Ever. That's what we have to realize folks.

I think he just seems to be under the impression that the people following along with E3 coverage and press releases are the same people out there buying these games in droves.
I dunno, this actually read more to me like self promotion. "Dammit, our customers want more product from us so they can throw money into our faces. What are we going to do with all this demand?" I like to imagine him saying this sarcastically, while sipping a pina colada and tossing peanuts into a cage filled with members of Sonic Team.

But I don't want "more." I wanted SOMETHING! Other than Pikmin 3 and possibly Paper Mario 3DS, there wasn't one other game I cared about that entire conference. It was embarrassing to watch (like Microsoft's). I turned it off half-way through.

How about discussing details about Super Smash Bros. 4? What about this rumor of a 3DS game by Good-Feel? Apparently Retro Studios is working on a new project. Tell us about it! Same for Square-Enix's new 3DS game 'Bravely Default: Flying Fairy'. Tell Square to show it off at your conference!! Another crazy thought but how about giving 'The Last Story' some attention on stage? You only friggin' PUBLISHED that game for the Wii!! I realize XSeed Games are the ones localizing this game but you could offer SOME attention to it.

I still think about Nintendo's E32010 conference. They'll never have a better one. Ever.

I don't really think Nintendo Land, is a good replacement for actual full titles in those old franchises people love so much. I don't wanna play a minigame where I'm the metroid, I want to play an actual metroid.

I don't wanna play Luigi's mansion with my mii, I want to play Luigi's mansion.

Pikmin is fine, not sure why people had complaints there.

The Mario complaints most likely stem over how boring the NSMB aesthetic is.


And Wii Fit or whatever, well I don't give a crap about and most "core" gamers which is what they said they wanted to go for, don't give a crap about it either.

DarkHarry is right on.. when they do address gamers.. its half assed.. and they ditched the ds for the 3ds.. how many ppl still have a ds and they just stopped working on so many games for it.. to focus on the 3ds.. the ds was the greatest handheld in the world and now they built a whole new handheld wrapped around a really bad gimmmick.. 3d isnt great its over hyped bull.. i love my ds but i hate the 3ds.. i want the vita but theres to content for it.. (nintendo needs to go stright to hardcore consoles.. i want a GrandNES designed only for hardcore gamers) and i want hardcore nintendo games no motion control no pad controllers no more lameness.. yes the gaming world is turning bad.. and im an outraged nintendo fan (wheres river city ransom.. mother 3 wheres all the good stuff. all i see thats good is mario games and zelda games, pokemon games. the core of their fanchese.. other wise is medocre games..)

What he's saying makes sense from Nintendo's perspective, but their perspective is horribly skewed and out-of-touch. I will commend them for trying, though.

PSYCHONAUTS?! DID YOU SAY PSYCHONAUTS? YOU DID DIDN'T YOU?

Sorry, Psychonauts fanboy tourettes :) I so love that game ha ha

Just because you give us a Mario game, doesn't mean we have to like it. We ask for more because Nintendo never, ever gives us much of anything. It seems we get a game in a core franchise once every year or two. Some franchises remain dormant for 5 or more years before we ever see anything. And when we do finally see something, it is usually watered down casual nonsense.

Here, let me provide you with examples. We loved Metroid Prime. We asked for more Metroid, and so you took the franchise away from the careful hands of Retro and gave it to a studio that has only made one good game. What we got was a complete mess. Obviously, we aren't pleased. You may have given us what we asked for, but it was garbage, so saying we should be happy we got it is nonsense.

And yes, we ask for Mario. Yet, you keep giving us the same Mario game over and over and over and over again. New Super Mario Bros, New Super Mario Bros Wii, New Super Mario Bros 3DS and New Super Mario Bros U all look exactly the same. They all play almost identically as well from what I've read about the two soon to be released ones on the 3DS and Wii U. We may have been asking for more Mario, but that doesn't mean we want the same one over and over again.

It's no wonder we are never satisfied with Nintendo games. When was the last time you had some great new IP for core audiences? Pikmin? And don't get me started on the new Pikmin game that looks like a HD Wii game. Maybe we wouldn't complain and demand so much from Nintendo if Nintendo actually gave a damn about its core audience.

When we say we want a Mario game, we want something fresh like Super Mario Galaxy was. We don't just want the same crap 4 times over. When we say we want a new Metroid game, we want the franchise given to a developer who actually knows what it's doing. When we say we want another Pikmin game, we expect it to look comparable to modern video games, not like an HD Wii game.

When we say we want new IP, we aren't talking about Wii Fit or Wii Sports or Wii Music. Those don't appeal to us. We want new, core IP that we can actually rally around. You haven't given us that in over a decade. No wonder we aren't satisfied. Your problem, NIntendo, is that you just refuse to try and please us. You expect us to gobble up whatever you put on our plates, and act like a confused child when we refuse to eat.

Just his wii fit comparison show us that he's either an hypocrite or a total idiot.

Goodness forbid we expect their brand new console to have more than a handful of games. Or that we expect it to have at least one impressive first-party offering that shows they give a crap about the system. Sorry, but a mediocre looking 2D Mario game is NOT the Mario we are asking for. Where the hell is Super Mario Galaxy 3? Or something we can actually get excited about? It's STILL mostly stupid party games, just like the original Wii. Core gamers are getting ignored again.

It's his job to satisfy us, not our job to lower our expectations to meet his company's shitty offerings.

As much as I agree that hardcore gamers are insatiable, that is still the audience they're trying to win. They are also easily excitable and willing to spend. Nintendo's conference sucked this year because it failed to capture the imagination or make its target audience excited for a brand new console, something that is not all that difficult to do. I feel sorry for Nintendo sometimes in their dealings with the rabid, kind of moronic fanbase that loves them (myself included), but that is their job and when they fail to do it right that is on them, not their fans.

Nintendo did show a decent launch line up for the Wii U, but people have a right to be skeptical given Nintendo's track record. Why shouldn't I believe that I'm going to finish Pikmin 3 in a week, and have nothing to play for a year? A launch line up isn't good enough when your last console was mostly used to collect dust.

Considering many of the big publishers have considered slicing their release slates down to the AAA bone, and leaving everything else to rot, extremely good business, I'd say the man has a point.

But in the end, just like all of those publishers, he's wrong. That audience is not representative of the full spectrum of gamers. Everyone knows that the mainstream is a fickle bunch, and the film industry would gladly tell you that they love big budget bullshit with lots of explosions and no substance.

So yeah, he's dead right about mainstream gamers, yet still utterly wrong thanks to his inability to discern that audience from the rest of us.

Yep out of touch; sad but true.
Isn't that the worst way to address your audience?
Well anyway bring me Pikmin and Animal Crossing and I'll be happy.

reggie know how to make those fanboys work for him

Hey, what about "Where's Mother 3? Where's Mother 3? Where's Mother 3?"

Reggie: Fuck off.

Well nobody would've complained about "more" at the Mario part if the launch Mario game they're doing were actually new and not the last NSMB games with a couple new things glued into it.

Did he ever come across the term "market segmentation".
That Wii-Fit analogy is like saying people who drive sportscars should be excited for the next mini-van.

The only people who should take any blame are everyone except the so-called core gamers. Their numbers are what dictate Nintendo's decisions, and they matter just as much as anyone else. Yet the majority decision is the least popular one with the people who think they matter the most.

they showed pikmin 3 and a side scrolling mario. what exactly are we "the gamer" supposed to be happy about? ohhh, we are sooo grateful you made pikmin 3. it only took 8 years to listen to your audience. you also launch with is a 2d mario? lazy much?!?! im not including nintendo land or whatever its called. gimmie a break. my 5 year old niece will love it though.. wooopieee

I can kind of go along with what Reggie is saying here. But, the one thing that floored me this year was when Nintendo had a sepearate show for the 3DS. I watched it and foamed at the mouth only to be given titles and news for everything coming by the end of this year. Nothing was announced for 2013. Then, Nintendo Direct takes place last week and they start coming at me with the new 3DS System and Fire Emblem coming in 2013. EShop is still getting a bunch of old Gameboy titles. We just want something original, something different and something to look forward to. Still, the 3DS is by far the best handheld system I have ever played. The games keep coming and keep getting better.

I'm on Reggie's side. Though, I will always be on Reggie's side.

Like I said before, no original 3DS Zelda game at e3 automatically means a fail. Rehashing old games doesn't sell me on a new system, because I've already played and beat them. Tell Sony that's the same reason I haven't picked up a Vita.

@AtomicBanana
Please tell me what rehashes Nintendo did for their games this year and how a new Zelda game wouldn't be of the same sort.

Would it kill Nintendo to stop living in its bubble? Or is it just that vulnerable to the germs of the outside world and its goldanged internet that seems to be so popular these days?

Reggie looks like someone tried to make an Easter Island statue out of a lump of processed meat. He also comes across slightly less genuinely than Yes Man from Fallout New Vegas when he talks on stage or in videos. Having him as a face of Nintendo is like having Richard Goldberg as the face of your daycare centre.

So what about the part Reggie was right about?

You know, the part where they have a Mario and Pikmin at launch and it's not good enough? Where they partner up with NB to make sure this Smash Bros. gets out in a timely manner and that is not good enough. They embrace online gaming finally and... It's not good enough.

Nintendo's fans and "fans" alike are unpleasable. They are held to expectations Sony and MS get passes on ritually.

Seriously, where is the press backlash on Vita, for example? This time last year 3DS was being raked over the coal and Vita comes out with even less games and no one says anything, no one gets upset.

The Nintendo Direct last week ended with people raging about no release date for Animal Crossing.

Seriously, we're talking CoD level pottymouth in the twitter feed over Animal Crossing not getting released this year. What a bunch of ungrateful children those people were.

Nintendo is damned if they do, damed if they don't. This is always how it is. Nothing is ever good enough.

I think it's because the Mario game they have ready might as well be a level pack for a several year old DS game, New Super Mario Bros. Even if they do end up actually embracing online gaming, why on earth should it be a good thing that they were about a decade late?

I would like more Animal Crossing, though. That game is my everything.

Uh, dude. You're pitching a new console. With like 50 new peripherals. Of course people want to see more than one launch title that piques their interest. And people call gamers entitled!