Events, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii
Iwata Apologizes for Nintendo’s E3, Gamers Mostly Unforgiving
After E3 last week, a collective swelling of Nintendo-ites—long-time fans who “made Nintendo what it is today”—pulled out their copies of Diary Girl and started blogging. They were mad. Their previous-franchise-fever has not been treated since Mario Kart Wii, back in April, and they’re jonesing for something new based on something old. E3 was supposed to be the expired medicine that would mildly ease their oozing sores, but it wasn’t. Not even close.
Nintendo’s President, Satoru Iwata, felt his gamers’ pain, and has issued an apology this week. Not an, “I’m sorry, it was a terrible…joke!” But a genuine, head-down, doghouse-bound “I’m sorry.”
With the Wii and the DS, you can’t argue that Nintendo isn’t an innovative, forward-thinking company. So why on Earth would the Big N even consider releasing a DVD-ready Wii console? That kind of move seems to be a step backward. At a recent stockholders meeting, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said the updated Wii system would be put on hold while focusing on getting the current model on more store shelves.