Author Topic: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo (Read 2280 times)

BisMarckie · « **on:** February 21, 2019, 02:26:29 PM »

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190221005804/en/

Himu · « **Reply #1 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!!!

Himu · « **Reply #2 on:** February 21, 2019, 02:37:47 PM »

Same.

nachobro · « **Reply #3 on:** February 21, 2019, 02:41:46 PM »

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1098666321473024000

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #4 on:** February 21, 2019, 02:41:48 PM »

Quote from: Cindi Mayweather 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!!!

Himu · « **Reply #5 on:** February 21, 2019, 02:44:17 PM »

Reggie nooooo

Nintex · « **Reply #6 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.

team filler · « **Reply #7 on:** February 21, 2019, 03:08:12 PM »

Quote from: nachobro on February 21, 2019, 02:41:46 PM

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1098666321473024000

https://twitter.com/joshwitte/status/1098666900668796928

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #8 on:** February 21, 2019, 03:09:17 PM »

Bring back the Bigfoot Pizza, you coward.

bork · « **Reply #9 on:** February 21, 2019, 03:48:00 PM »

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #10 on:** February 21, 2019, 06:21:06 PM »

The best thing about this will be the Dunkey video

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 21, 2019, 06:35:30 PM »

Never got the big deal with this guy or any of the gaming ceo worship.

benjipwns · « **Reply #12 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.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #13 on:** February 21, 2019, 08:53:30 PM »

Quote from: Human Snorenado on February 21, 2019, 06:21:06 PM

The best thing about this will be the Dunkey video

https://twitter.com/vgdunkey/status/1098714266406928389

thisismyusername · « **Reply #14 on:** February 21, 2019, 09:23:18 PM »

Quote from: bork on February 21, 2019, 03:48:00 PM

(Image removed from quote.)

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).

benjipwns · « **Reply #15 on:** February 21, 2019, 10:04:03 PM »

paprikastaude · « **Reply #16 on:** February 21, 2019, 11:44:55 PM »

Quote from: Rahxephon91 on February 21, 2019, 06:35:30 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.

Trent Dole · « **Reply #17 on:** February 22, 2019, 02:06:47 AM »

https://twitter.com/TX__Cameron/status/1098697861380931584

bork · « **Reply #18 on:** February 22, 2019, 03:41:27 PM »

https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1098968154548699141

Raist · « **Reply #19 on:** February 24, 2019, 03:40:11 PM »

https://twitter.com/souljaboy/status/1099088642826371072

bork · « **Reply #20 on:** February 25, 2019, 10:42:32 AM »

Quote from: Raist on February 24, 2019, 03:40:11 PM

https://twitter.com/souljaboy/status/1099088642826371072

https://twitter.com/ComicBookNOW/status/1099457384706015233

Himu · « **Reply #21 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?

Rufus · « **Reply #22 on:** February 25, 2019, 03:51:43 PM »

The former. Not gonna work anywhere else.

paprikastaude · « **Reply #23 on:** February 25, 2019, 03:56:24 PM »

Himu · « **Reply #24 on:** February 25, 2019, 04:30:58 PM »

Quote from: Rufus on February 25, 2019, 03:51:43 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.

Occam · « **Reply #25 on:** February 25, 2019, 04:48:07 PM »

Quote from: Spieler1 on February 21, 2019, 11:44:55 PM

Quote from: Rahxephon91 on February 21, 2019, 06:35:30 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.

Nintex · « **Reply #26 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.

kingv · « **Reply #27 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.

Nintex · « **Reply #28 on:** February 26, 2019, 06:41:49 PM »

Quote from: 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.

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.

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Author Topic: Reggie to retire, Bowser will take over Nintendo (Read 2280 times)