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Nintendo Minute vol 1

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January 21, 2005 - Welcome to IGNcube's Nintendo Minute. Every Friday, an executive from Nintendo of America will answer a single question of ours. Depending on the week, the interviewee will be different, but the answers will always come from one of the following three company bigwigs: VP of sales and marketing Reginald Fils-Aime, VP of corporate affairs Perrin Kaplan or VP of marketing and corporate communications George Harrison.

Readers can make their voice heard by sending us an e-mail and submitting a question for Nintendo of America's elite to answer. If we agree that the question is an important one, we'll pass it along and try to get it answered.
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This week's question: Nintendo has indicated that it will launch Revolution against Sony's PS3, which is not expected to debut until 2006. Microsoft will allegedly release the successor to Xbox later this year. Why release the console against Sony's in 2006 and not against Microsoft's next in 2005? Do you foresee any drawbacks to releasing after Xbox 2?

Perrin Kaplan, VP of corporate affairs, Nintendo of America: Nintendo has yet to announce an official launch date for Revolution. So until that time, any rumored dates are pure speculation. Even in your question you've made an assumption we'll be after Microsoft and releasing around the same time as Sony. Aside from the 'date game,' most important is knowing if the next round of systems will bring gaming experiences brand new and innovative so consumers stay electrified.

Being first to market is no guarantee of success. The quality of what is launched is most important. We expect Revolution to be competitive because it will be innovative and a gas to play.
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Well It's a nice idea from IGN, but I don't expect NOA to reveal anything interesting about Revolution before E3. Especially not from Kaplan.

http://cube.ign.com/articles/581/581909p1.html
 
Nice idea, something to look foward to every week!!!!

Being first to market is no guarantee of success. The quality of what is launched is most importan
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I know I heard that somewhere before, now if I could only remember where :(
 
Even in your question you've made an assumption we'll be after Microsoft and releasing around the same time as Sony.
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So, they're not? They'll be before Microsoft?

Or more likely, way after Sony?
 
Ok, let's take bets. I say we get three of these, then skip a week, then another 2 and that's the last we'll ever see this.
 
Chesapeake Silt said:
Every week a different question and a different non-answer from a Nintendo PR rep! Excitement!
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Gotta give Nfans something to talk about in between Gamecube releases to keep morale up...
 
Keyser Soze said:
I know I heard that somewhere before, now if I could only remember where :(
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Sony said the exact same thing almost word for word in the last issue of EGM (with Metal Gear Ac!d on the cover).
 
What a stupid question, did they actually think they might get an answer from that? How about asking questions about things that they're allowed to talk about?
 
Grubdog said:
What a stupid question, did they actually think they might get an answer from that? How about asking questions about things that they're allowed to talk about?
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***Readers can make their voice heard by sending us an e-mail and submitting a question for Nintendo of America's elite to answer. If we agree that the question is an important one, we'll pass it along and try to get it answered.
 
This may be the worst idea IGNCube has come up with yet.

Every week will be like an episode of Seinfeld: A whole lot of nothing. But without the funny.
 
Grubdog said:
What a stupid question, did they actually think they might get an answer from that? How about asking questions about things that they're allowed to talk about?
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It's a catch-22. The only interesting answers you could get from these guys are to questions they can't answer.
 
Depending on the week, the interviewee will be different, but the answers will always come from one of the following three company bigwigs: VP of sales and marketing Reginald Fils-Aime, VP of corporate affairs Perrin Kaplan or VP of marketing and corporate communications George Harrison.
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I don't know about any of you but I only care about what the dead member of The Beatles has to say. :lol
 
I have a question for George:

Did it frustrate you that John and Paul consitently made the most money, even on albums like Abbey Road where your songs defined the album?
 
Die Squirrel Die said:
It's a catch-22. The only interesting answers you could get from these guys are to questions they can't answer.
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No kidding. If all the questions are as vanilla as this one, who cares. But if they tried to ask something remotly interesting (like say about the controller having no traditional A & B buttons), you wouldn't get any anwser, even a lame one like the one given.

So might was well just say every Friday: Only XX days to E3!
 
Keyser Soze said:
Nice idea, something to look foward to every week!!!!
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Just to warn you if you didn't know, IGN's weekly featurettes usually fizzle out after two or three weeks. At least thats how it used to be, and I wouldn't expect any sort of change on that.
 
StarscreamLSU said:
Wait a minute, why do I recall Nintendo (and Microsoft) using Sony's year head start as a major reason why they're ahead in sales?
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Yeah, somewhere around the time when the Xbox in 05 rumors started swirling, being first no matter mattered to Nintendo next-gen. :lol

The irony, of course, is that the Cube is the only console that could be retired this year without a ton of complaining.
 
I hope they're just making up answers. Getting on-the-record info from Nintendo seems to be pretty fucking difficult and pointless to try if it isn't the right season.
 
I really want my minute back. I sure as hell will not be losing this minute next week.
Why would IGN waste their time every week on recycled and censorsed PR crap?
 
My only comment on the matter: If Nintendo is truly looking to be competitive time wise with Xenon and PS3 (Early 2006 in Japan?), and if third-party support is vital as Reggie claims, then it seems there's a very good chance they'll be an pre-E3 leak like DS. I mean, Nintendo has to eventually start shipping out development kits if it wants to have anything at launch.

But, of course, the more likely scenario is limited third-party support and a launch significantly after both.
 
a gas to play? ?

Since I'm not native english speaker I haven't heard this expression before. An image of four farting players around a cube comes to my mind.
 
Kaplan said:
Nintendo has yet to announce an official launch date for Revolution. So until that time, any rumored dates are pure speculation. Even in your question you've made an assumption we'll be after Microsoft and releasing around the same time as Sony.
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But... didn't they already say they were going to do just that? I think as far back as last E3? And certainly since then...
 
Chittagong said:
a gas to play? ?

Since I'm not native english speaker I haven't heard this expression before. An image of four farting players around a cube comes to my mind.
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think fun, as in laughing gas.

its an antiquated phrase though like "groovy!" or "far out!". I don't think i've ever heard anyone say it in "real life".
 
well it's kinda worthless feature without interesting answers, but it's atleast better than no update at all.
 
To be fair, I think the question was just stupid. If you want to get answers from Nintendo, you have to ask questions about games that are already released or, talk about new PRs.

Example: How was the idea of Mario DDR brought up?
Who approached who to have mario in NBA street?
Was it EA's idea to have SPO in FN2?
 
I think even incomplete answers would mean something if it weren't for Nintendo's extremely long and thorough history of almost-outright lying (and certainly being intentionally misleading).

For exmaple, if a Sony or Microsoft executive said this...

Even in your question you've made an assumption we'll be after Microsoft and releasing around the same time as Sony
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...I would come away with the idea that they intended to launch before the competition, and I'd probably be right. With Nintendo, it seems that there's no truth or hints in answers like this.
 
snapty00 said:
I think even incomplete answers would mean something if it weren't for Nintendo's extremely long and thorough history of almost-outright lying (and certainly being intentionally misleading).

For exmaple, if a Sony or Microsoft executive said this...

...I would come away with the idea that they intended to launch before the competition, and I'd probably be right. With Nintendo, it seems that there's no truth or hints in answers like this.
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I like your title, it suits this thread nicely.
 
snapty00 said:
...I would come away with the idea that they intended to launch before the competition, and I'd probably be right. With Nintendo, it seems that there's no truth or hints in answers like this.
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She's just backing up what she said previously, about people assuming things based on speculation.
 
Anything anyone from NoA has to say means nothing since they can't breath without NCL giving the ok and that's when they know something. In this case I have the feeling that they're as much in the dark about the Revolution as we are.
 
Fuzzy said:
Anything anyone from NoA has to say means nothing since they can't breath without NCL giving the ok and that's when they know something. In this case I have the feeling that they're as much in the dark about the Revolution as we are.
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No, NOA knows what the Revolution is at this point. No doubt about it. Hell, NOA's localization team know what the new Zelda is :P
 
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