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Reggie Fils-Aime on the Wii U's failure, Iwata against Wii Sports being bundled with Wii in U.S., the Activision Blizzard Hong Kong controversy, and more

The big man lets loose!
by rawmeatcowboy
22 October 2019
GN Version 5.0

Reggie Fils-Aime held his previously-announced presentation at Cornell yesterday, and as you might expect, he talked a lot about Nintendo. Wondering what the Regginator had to say? Check out a summary of the event from one of the students who attended below!

- Reggie acknowledged that the Wii U was a failure pretty bluntly, but he called it a "failure forward" since it led to the Switch
- Reggie talked to the Japanese side of Nintendo quite a lot, and they usually called him Reggie-san
- Iwata didn't think Wii Sports should be bundled with the Wii in the U.S.
- Reggie said he learned the value of "silence" in business from Iwata
- Reggie emphasized the importance of having a workforce with a variety of races, genders, and sexual orientations
- Nintendo of America has internal diversity programs that supports groups of women and LGTB people at the company
- Reggie says China is a very different market, and praise the consumer response to Activision Blizzard
- Reggie was asked about Mother 3 at the presentation, and laughed, saying he thought he'd finally escaped that question
- Reggie says Retro Studios has some control over their release dates in a similar manner to the Pokemon Company (may need clarification)

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