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Reggie says Nintendo's answer to the 'stagnant' video game market was Wii

Viva la revolution
by rawmeatcowboy
31 October 2019
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When Nintendo was moving on from the GameCube, they wanted to do something to rejuvenate the video game industry. According to Reggie Fils-Aime during a speech at Cornell, Nintendo saw the market as stagnant. Their solution to this problem was the Wii, which turned out to be quite a great answer. Check out Reggie's comments on the Wii below.

"Nintendo diagnosed the problem was that there wasn't innovation in the games. It was more and more sequels, fill in the blank version two, three, four, it was all the same. There was a lack of innovation in the play styles. The controllers had gotten overly complicated. Nintendo's solution was the Wii Remote, the integral part of the Wii proposition. There was one key decision that drove those results, and it was the decision to include Wii Sports as part of the proposition in the US, in the Americas and in Europe."

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