MSNBC continues their talks with the top execs from the big three today with Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aime. Reggie gives us the good ol’ Nintendo pitch, which comes off a bit better than Microsoft’s "we’re the best" blabber, though it doesn’t pull at the heart strings like Sony’s apologetic underdog act.
MSNBC comes right out swinging (I like this Kristin Kalning, and that’s not just because she likes my band), asking Fils-Aime how the Wii has managed to avoid becoming the Gamecube 2. After saying that he "wasn’t here" for the Gamecube era, Fils-Aime gives a standard Nintendo answer:
"What I can tell you is that as we launched the Wii, we made sure that we had strong software support at the launch," says Fils-Aime. "We made sure that we had a fantastic consumer proposition, and we made sure that we had follow-up support."
And when asked to clarify "support," Reggie […]
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