THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: BisMarckie on February 21, 2019, 02:26:29 PM

Title: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: BisMarckie on February 21, 2019, 02:26:29 PM
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190221005804/en/

:bowsette
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Himu on February 21, 2019, 02:32:14 PM
Doug Bowser Named New President

...

Transition will Occur in April

Transition indeed. Wow, I'm going to miss you Reggie!!!
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Himu on February 21, 2019, 02:37:47 PM
Same.

:tocry
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: nachobro on February 21, 2019, 02:41:46 PM
https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1098666321473024000

:tocry :salute
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 21, 2019, 02:41:48 PM
Doug Bowser Named New President

...

Transition will Occur in April

Transition indeed. Wow, I'm going to miss you Reggie!!!

:bowsette
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Himu on February 21, 2019, 02:44:17 PM
Reggie nooooo :tocry
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Nintex on February 21, 2019, 02:55:46 PM
Now that he's done with being President of Nintendo, Reggie should run for President of the US.
He has the Nintendo vote, soccer mom vote and minority vote locked up.
As well as the meme vote.

He'd be unbeatable.
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: team filler on February 21, 2019, 03:08:12 PM
https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1098666321473024000

:tocry :salute
https://twitter.com/joshwitte/status/1098666900668796928
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 21, 2019, 03:09:17 PM
Bring back the Bigfoot Pizza, you coward.
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: bork on February 21, 2019, 03:48:00 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dz9FkxDUYAAJITf.jpg)
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 21, 2019, 06:21:06 PM
The best thing about this will be the Dunkey video
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Rahxephon91 on February 21, 2019, 06:35:30 PM
Never got the big deal with this guy or any of the gaming ceo worship.
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: benjipwns on February 21, 2019, 07:07:17 PM
Nintendo must have read our Chad Bowser fanfic in the dumpster thread.

Then they cheaped out for a Doug instead.
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 21, 2019, 08:53:30 PM
The best thing about this will be the Dunkey video

https://twitter.com/vgdunkey/status/1098714266406928389
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: thisismyusername on February 21, 2019, 09:23:18 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dz9FkxDUYAAJITf.jpg)

This needs to be the sales thread header.

Anyway, I can't say anything overly bad about Reggie. Dude wasn't super great, but he generally put Nintendo in a decent position in America (bar the shit third party support and game drought, anyway, which isn't totally his entire fault).
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: benjipwns on February 21, 2019, 10:04:03 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89GB6bC9_N4
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: paprikastaude on February 21, 2019, 11:44:55 PM
Never got the big deal with this guy or any of the gaming ceo worship.

What's not sad about some marketing guy being able to retire in his 50s?  :'(  tbh after he dropped the angry act after the first couple of E3s he wasn't even a good presenter, but just the typical PR robot trying to mimic emotions. I guess he wasn't completely repulsive like the Peter Moores and Jack Trettons.
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Trent Dole on February 22, 2019, 02:06:47 AM
https://twitter.com/TX__Cameron/status/1098697861380931584
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: bork on February 22, 2019, 03:41:27 PM
https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1098968154548699141
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Raist on February 24, 2019, 03:40:11 PM
https://twitter.com/souljaboy/status/1099088642826371072
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: bork on February 25, 2019, 10:42:32 AM
https://twitter.com/souljaboy/status/1099088642826371072

https://twitter.com/ComicBookNOW/status/1099457384706015233
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Himu on February 25, 2019, 03:43:12 PM
So is Reggie retired retired? Like, he’s not working at all now? Or does he mean just leaving the gaming biz?
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Rufus on February 25, 2019, 03:51:43 PM
The former. Not gonna work anywhere else.
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: paprikastaude on February 25, 2019, 03:56:24 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnUbXOeJaKI
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Himu on February 25, 2019, 04:30:58 PM
The former. Not gonna work anywhere else.

Wow. Our man made it.

In reality he’s probably going to try to break into politics.
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Occam on February 25, 2019, 04:48:07 PM
Never got the big deal with this guy or any of the gaming ceo worship.

What's not sad about some marketing guy being able to retire in his 50s?  :'(  tbh after he dropped the angry act after the first couple of E3s he wasn't even a good presenter, but just the typical PR robot trying to mimic emotions. I guess he wasn't completely repulsive like the Peter Moores and Jack Trettons.

Interestingly, one of the last things Iwata did before dying was to reduce Reggie to a mere figurehead with little real power.
So that's really all he was: Some marketing guy.
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Nintex on February 25, 2019, 05:34:25 PM
Doug Bowser doesn't really have a profile right now. Reggie was pretty much made immortal by the 2004 Zelda trailer announcement and dunking on Sony and Microsoft.
He seemed very un-Nintendo like at the start. Although the last few years he became less and less outspoken.
Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: kingv on February 26, 2019, 01:55:01 AM
I’m not really sure what the NOA guys even do.

I mean, I know they handle translations and marketing to
Some extent, and maybe the release calendar, but it’s not like they are actually “making games” afaik. Nintendo seems more centralized than Sony in that respect.

Title: Re: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo
Post by: Nintex on February 26, 2019, 06:41:49 PM
I’m not really sure what the NOA guys even do.

I mean, I know they handle translations and marketing to
Some extent, and maybe the release calendar, but it’s not like they are actually “making games” afaik. Nintendo seems more centralized than Sony in that respect.
Treehouse has some hand in development. For BOTW the US and Japan worked closely together but Japan is certainly running the show after Nintendo lost most of their western development houses such as Rare.
NOA and NoE simply have no leverage. Would've been different if Arakawa had taken over from Yamauchi instead of Iwata.