16th May 2022, 7:27 AM
I KNEW IT! I knew... no, no I can't take credit for this at all. I'm glad he's out at this point. Kudos on him for getting Wii Sports packed into Wiis, but heck that wasn't even an original idea. No we can thank Howard Phillips for that, and how he pioneered including not one but two games with every NES, as well as every peripheral needed, and then in Nintendo Power doing everything he could to kick off the RPG craze in the US by sending out a free copy of Dragon Warrior to every subscriber.
Anyway, Reggie's only exposed himself as being a businessman, who may be savvy in some ways but here is just embarrassingly exposing overreaching greed. The bottom already fell out of NFTs and he's going on about how Animal Crossing should have them? Bleck...
Here's something far more damning, and that's the workplace environment of Nintendo of America being bad enough they want to unionize. That all happened under Reggie's watch. Doug Bowser takes some blame, but Reggie let it all happen or even actively created those conditions. I say "or" because as much as I praise Howard Phillips as "my" NOA president, we don't know how far back it goes. Testimony from employees who worked for Nintendo during the 80's and 90's do seem pretty positive overall, so maybe it was different then?
Anyway, Reggie's only exposed himself as being a businessman, who may be savvy in some ways but here is just embarrassingly exposing overreaching greed. The bottom already fell out of NFTs and he's going on about how Animal Crossing should have them? Bleck...
Here's something far more damning, and that's the workplace environment of Nintendo of America being bad enough they want to unionize. That all happened under Reggie's watch. Doug Bowser takes some blame, but Reggie let it all happen or even actively created those conditions. I say "or" because as much as I praise Howard Phillips as "my" NOA president, we don't know how far back it goes. Testimony from employees who worked for Nintendo during the 80's and 90's do seem pretty positive overall, so maybe it was different then?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)