3rd March 2011, 10:54 PM
... um, you mean Reggie Fils-Aime, the president of Nintendo of America? He's been NOA's head for several years now. I agree that his part was pretty generic compared to Iwata's, but it wasn't THAT bad, he's had worse ones at other Nintendo press conferences... he just presented the information. He just didn't do any of the more introspective parts Iwata did, but it was Iwata's speech so that was his to say anyway I think.
Also, Nintendo's still behind the others in terms of online features, you still need to exchange numerical friends codes with someone in order to add them to your friends list, and if it works like most Wii and DS games you won't be able to do voice chat in random games, only friends' ones, so you usually have to find the codes outside of the game... such stupid, stupid systems! At least this time you just have one system-wide code, instead of a system code plus a separate code for each game, but it's still bad.
As for StreetPass, that's optional, you need to walk around with the system in standby (that is on but closed) for that to function, right? And SpotPass seems to just be a fancy term for "wi-fi hotspots with 3DS features or something", if I understand it right (I'm not certain that I do).
But yeah, for the most part it was an interesting and topical speech, yeah. The issue of where gaming goes now, with the onslaught of the vast, often low quality, often $1 and less cellphone/tablet gaming market is a very good question. As Iwata says, it gets harder to convince people to spend premium prices, but you have to do that if you want to maintain the industry in anything remotely resembling the shape (and size, number of developers wise) it is now...
Also, Nintendo's still behind the others in terms of online features, you still need to exchange numerical friends codes with someone in order to add them to your friends list, and if it works like most Wii and DS games you won't be able to do voice chat in random games, only friends' ones, so you usually have to find the codes outside of the game... such stupid, stupid systems! At least this time you just have one system-wide code, instead of a system code plus a separate code for each game, but it's still bad.
As for StreetPass, that's optional, you need to walk around with the system in standby (that is on but closed) for that to function, right? And SpotPass seems to just be a fancy term for "wi-fi hotspots with 3DS features or something", if I understand it right (I'm not certain that I do).
But yeah, for the most part it was an interesting and topical speech, yeah. The issue of where gaming goes now, with the onslaught of the vast, often low quality, often $1 and less cellphone/tablet gaming market is a very good question. As Iwata says, it gets harder to convince people to spend premium prices, but you have to do that if you want to maintain the industry in anything remotely resembling the shape (and size, number of developers wise) it is now...
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