November 11th, 2012

Reggie Fils-Aime to appear (again) on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

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Reggie Fils-Aime Jimmy Fallon

On November 16th, Reggie Fils-Aime will make another appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to talk about the Wii U before the console launches a couple of days later. I’d say it’s safe to expect we’ll see more of the Nintendo Land titles demonstrated.

  • http://www.fanfiction.net/u/3204673/ GameManiac

    Fun fact: did you know Reggie had an afro in his high school years?

    • Omarsonic9

      Thats our NoA President!

    • http://twitter.com/Revolution5268 Revolution

      lol man i need to make time machine to go to the past

  • DanDroid

    I might meet him! He’s coming to Nintendo World for the midnight Wii U launch in NY!
    I want my XL Autographed! :D

    • ePik Min

      But is your XL ready?

    • http://twitter.com/Revolution5268 Revolution

      good luck….. no really good luck, you are not the only person who wants to get an autographed.

  • Nepenthe

    Maybe while he’s there he can explain the poor choice that has just come to light Saturday evening regarding digital downloads. The SD card reader just became useless (not a huge loss but I would have liked the option). But more importantly, we’ve learned that there really isn’t an account system for digital downloads. In an effort to prevent you from bringing your USB flash, HDD, or SSD over to your friend’s house so you can play the game that you purchased over there, Nintendo also appears to have locked all your digital downloads to one system, one drive.

    This means if your Wii U is broken, lost, stolen, damaged, wears out, etc., you have lost not only all your downloads stored on internal 8/32 GB memory, but all your downloads stored on USB anything.

    I am still pre-ordered for a Wii U as of now but this has two big implications for me:

    1. I will not be purchasing any *digital versions* of games that are available at retail. Not only do you lose resale value, not only do you lose the ability to easily bring the game to a friend or relative’s house (you can, you just have to bring over your Wii U unit too and maybe the USB drive if it’s not on the internal memory), but you lose the whole game itself if your particular Wii U that you downloaded it with can’t play it for whatever reason (broken, lost, stolen, damaged, wears out, etc.). The only thing you can do, presumably, is re-download stuff you bought using the same Wii U on a different USB drive (even then the system only reads one USB drive at a time). So losing a hard drive isn’t that big of a deal, but losing the Wii U loses you everything. The digital download version would have to be *significantly* cheaper for me to consider it considering the resale, portability, and risk propositions.

    2. I will not be purchasing *any* Wii U eShop, Wii eShop, Virtual Console, or DLC, period. Sorry, independent publishers and developers.

    Major fumble for Nintendo and so disappointing.

    • Nintendo4Ever

      so… same as the wii?

    • Nepenthe

      Yes, and wasn’t that a great configuration.

      PS3, 360, Steam, these had it figured out years ago. In all these years Nintendo still failed to implement a true account system.

      I won’t buy any digitally distributed retail games because of this, and will in all likelihood avoid any eShop stuff as well. Unless you have other information on how one would go about re-downloading previously purchased material on another Wii U.

    • Bill

      When did they say that it isn’t tied to an account?

    • Nepenthe

      Last night. Essentially the USB drive you use to store digital downloads becomes intrinsically linked to the Wii U you used to download the material. Without that Wii U, the data and drive become useless, and apparently you have lost the ability to ever access or restore that data and content.

      “Download software can only be used on 1 Wii U per 1 USB Media”
      “Downloaded software can only be played on the Wii U it was originally bought from”

      The above statements are translated from Nintendo of Japan’s website. If you can reconcile the above with content being tied to an account rather than one physical console I’m all ears. I’d love to hear some clarification. Are Nintendo Network IDs transportable from machine to machine? This might at least help if I’m wanting to upgrade my Wii U at some point, buy a different color, replace an ailing console, etc. Probably doesn’t help much with lost, stolen, or damaged.

      It’s not a deal-breaker, but it’s annoying and unnecessarily primitive.

    • Xef

      Source?

    • Nepenthe

      http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=190181

      Or any of several dozen others. Just go to Google News, type in “wii u sd”

    • Nepenthe

      Yes, and wasn’t that a great configuration.

      360, PS3, Steam, these systems were figured out years ago. Nintendo had years and still failed to create a true account system.

      I won’t be buying digital distributions of retail games, and in all likelihood I’ll avoid the eShop as well. Unless you have other information regarding download recovery?

  • http://www.facebook.com/martin.kearney.104 Martin Kearney

    Don’t show anymore Nintendo Land games. Please show off New Super Mario Bros. U or something like that.

  • Lobster Mike

    DAVID ACTIVATE ME ON THE FORUMS

  • http://www.facebook.com/JonathanRider Johnny Rider

    Whenever I see that picture I always think it’s Josh Radnor.