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One thing I am still disappointed by is her response to why it was named Wii. For instance, this quote coming from a marketing guru: "In the end, it's not necessarily what something's named, it's what it does." Of course it matters what it's named!

Overall, very little information, mostly her agreeing that there are still a lot of unanswered questions that were promised to be revealed this past week.]]>May 15th 2006 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/
"Play some WHAT?! Wtf man, I'm not gay..."

Arghh just reading the damn name annoys me.]]>May 15th 2006 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/
All this talk of episodic content really irritates me, because the path that this model takes is extremely clear, and it isn't in anybody's best interest except the heads of big companies somewhere.]]>May 15th 2006 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/May 15th 2006 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2006/02/07/xbox-ps3-revolution-cx_rr_0207nintendo.html

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What a B@*$^]]>May 15th 2006 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/
By the way - calling someone "So and so-san" when you writing in English - that's really uncool. People who really speak Japanese don't do that. At least, not in my experience. ]]>May 15th 2006 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/May 15th 2006 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/May 15th 2006 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/May 15th 2006 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/Nitro was the DS' codename.

I wish you'd ask her about Wi-Fi multiplayer in Virtual Console games.

Oh, and yeah, calling people "-san" in English is really, really dumb. I'm talking as a foreigner here, I think my head would explode if people would start adding my language's "mister" to every Polish name.]]>May 15th 2006 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/
You are totally right about the san thing. Although it could be considered respectful considering Miyamoto is Japanese. Cool, that is a different thing. Heck, I forget san/chan/kun all the time when I am speaking Japanese! So I commend them for using it even though they don't speak it!]]>May 15th 2006 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/
My guess as to why they used it, and are just saying not to worry about it is they probably conducted a lot of market research. They don't need us to like it. They need the moms and dads, non-gamers, and little kids to like it. Anybody that wanted a Revolution probably hasn't changed their mind and decided they don't want a Wii. Nintendo isn't stupid.]]>May 15th 2006 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/
Ryan, no video this time? :[]]>May 15th 2006 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/
But must've been annoying with her interupting mid-sentence :P.]]>May 15th 2006 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/
So yeah. Good interview. Nothing I'd call exclusive, but you guys definitely tried.
]]>May 15th 2006 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/
Anyway, not a bad interview. I wish they would spill the beans on certain things (you know she knows more than she says), but hey, I'm excited and that's part of the fun.]]>May 16th 2006 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/May 16th 2006 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/So no, it is not strange.
]]>May 16th 2006 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/I think #13 is spot on - although I still don't agree with the decision to change the name. I'm always going to call it Revolution, that was just such a cool name.]]>May 16th 2006 3:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/
Yesterday I read a post about de Wii final secret. Coincidences are so big!!!!: www.n-dimension.blogspot.com. The post is called The great secret of Wii: Wii is not (single) a console!


The crap translation through Google:


http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.n-dimension.blogspot.com%2F&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools]]>May 16th 2006 4:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/
To the rest of the world, it's just "Wii", so get over yourselves.]]>May 16th 2006 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/May 16th 2006 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/Wars have a way of bringing enemies together, under the guise of "an enemy of an enemy is a friend". The war to dominate the next generation video games console seems to have brought Microsoft and Nintendo together, to fight against the Sony PS3.



In a bizzare interview, Peter Moore, VP at Microsoft went ahead and slammed the price point of the new PS3 (around $600), while ignoring that the XBOX 360 with an HD drive will probably end up costing as much.

Two quotes from this report in Reuters.

"Tell me why you would buy a $600 PS3?" Peter Moore, a Microsoft vice president, said in an interview. "People are going to buy two (machines.) They?re going to buy an Xbox and they?re going to buy a Wii ? for the price of one PS3."

Eh??

"People will always gravitate toward a competitively priced product ? like what I believe Wii will be ? with innovative new designs and great intellectual property like Mario, Zelda and Metroid."

Its shaping up to be an interesting summer!

If the two players do merge and produce one console (ok ..allow us one joke please?) will the new product be called WiiBox or will be an XWii? Sorry.. after reading that we know how unfunny it is.
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Episodic content just feels like a way of artificially extending the shelf life of games that were empty to begin with.

And when did the amount of crap you can store on your GAMING CONSOLE become such an issue? (Beyond, of course, how much you can fit on a save card?). HD content is overblown and overrated. What percentage of gamers actually own a HD TV, or wish to spend several thousand dollars to get one?

'A nice form of flattery' my arse. The Sony controller is a blatant ripoff and an attempt by Sony to again eat into Nintendo's developer list. You can bet they'll be putting the pressure on developers producing motion sensitive games for the wii to consider a multi-platform release.

But maybe I'm just bitter. Eh...

Oh yeah, and believe it or not, I actually like the name Wii. At first I was shocked by the name change and left disbelieving, but quite frankly, I've come to like it. It's simple, everyone knows it, and quite frankly, it makes as much sense as the name of a game console as 'X Box'.]]>May 17th 2006 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/15/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-nintendos-perrin-kaplan/May 18th 2006 3:22PM