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The first of many interviews to come from Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime…

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Update: Just noticed another tweet coming from GameTrailers editor-in-chief Shane Satterfield. Yesterday, he wrote on Twitter “that friend codes are gone for Wii U.” So, which is it? The only thing I can gather is that the Friend Codes usage will be very different for Wii U if they’re there at all. Let the confusion commence!

Some slightly disappointing news has made it out of a Nintendo analyst meeting at E3 2012 today.

The company briefly touched on the Wii U’s online functionality in addition to other topics. Nintendo previously announced an account system for the system, but hadn’t ruled out Friend Codes.

Today, Nintendo has confirmed that Friend Codes haven’t been completely eliminated and will be returning in some form. Details about its implementation haven’t been discussed, though making friends will apparently be easier.

Other tidbits from the event include:

– 3DS software units have outsold the equivalent of DS software in the same period
– 3DS has reached 70% Internet connection rate
– An average of 5 items have been purchased by online 3DS users
– Wii U home screen includes a recommendation engine built-in, showing users which titles they might be interested in
– Wii U: can access store and communications on smartphones so that you can buy and download content to the console by the time you get home
– “Current share price cannot be sustained, by delivering and communicating hope to rectify, no consideration to go private”
– Nintendo not actively looking into free-to-play games
– No plans for Mario free-to-play game
– Nintendo believes in selling product for value created
– Nintendo won’t compete with Microsoft or others for exclusive franchise support; they want to take advantage of the 190 million Wiimote/45 million Balance Board install base
– No built-in hard drive for Wii U, but USB connections let users use variety of external options like a cheap hard drive
– Nintendo open to pre-installed software for Wii U in some markets
– On Xbox SmartGlass: what they offer is a small facet of what Wii U can do; they clearly see value to follow only 1 year after Wii U
– Nintendo has placed particular focus on Wii U’s latency to ensure a seamless experience; Nintendo thinks Sony/Microsoft will still have an issue (possibly with similar products)
– “This cycle can improve profits driven by digital, miiverse is designed to improve tie ratio, wiiu think will have higher active use rate”
– When asked about Apple TV, Nintendo said that they believe what Wii U offers is the only one of its kind with a second screen integrated seamlessly to the television

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Shigeru Miyamoto does indeed have an original game in the works. The thing is, he’s been so preoccupied with different roles that it’s been taking awhile to create the design document.

Miyamoto told Joystiq:

“One thing I want to clear up, people like to ask me if I want to do a small project with a small team. I do like working with a small team, and I’m working with a number of small teams on a lot of different ideas, but the problem is because of all these different roles that I have to fulfill, it takes me a long time to write the design document.”

Miyamoto added that the design work has been taking longer than usual due to the nature of working with smaller teams, so “maybe this time next year I’ll have something ready to show you that perhaps will illustrate that idea.”

He’s currently busy with the project’s design documents, even working on them at E3 2012.

According to Miyamoto:

“I have some storyboards that I have to draw before I finish this trip. It’s fun. I use Flipnote Studio to draw my storyboards.”

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Nintendo’s stock has dropped by 2.68% today following the company’s E3 2012 media briefing. The company has been receiving negative press from its conference, which seemed to lack a truly big and impressive games and lacked new announcements for Wii U.

To compare, Sony’s shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose by 2.14% overnight, and increased by 3.21% in New York.

Ubisoft, perhaps the “winner” of this year’s E3, also jumped by 5%.

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The video above is probably better than any one taken by Nintendo in previous years. There’s some direct-feed footage of the F-Zero mini-game from Nintendo Land and more.

Posted on 13 years ago by Austin(@NE_Austin) in Features, General Nintendo | 0 comments

I really hate having to write these types of articles. I love Nintendo and it pains me to have to talk so badly of them. But seriously. Come on. The other press conferences this year were as follows:

Microsoft: Bombed.
Sony: Eh.
EA: Terrible.
Ubisoft: Average.

This wasn’t a tough scenario. Nintendo should have been ready to blow this one out of the park. It was a fastball straight down the middle. It was a perfect storm of awesome that had the potential to send chills down the spines of every gamer watching. Instead of going for the home run though, they apparently decided to fake getting hit by the pitch and hobbled along to first base, managing to barely keep the game going, and build little if any hype for the next at-bat.

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