>Iwata summoned Reggie for three days to Nintendo's headquarters in Kyoto in March, 2015 despite Reggie having birthday plans with his wife on those days specifically to tell him that his cancer had returned as well as to check out their Nintendo Switch prototype.
>Reggie was the brainchild behind the "Wii Would Like to Play" commercials back in 2006 and Iwata didn't want to air the commercials because they depicted Japanese businessmen acting "too familiar, too informal."
>Reggie basically told Iwata that it wasn't going to be an issue in the Americas and that he needed to trust Reggie since Iwata was the one who promoted him about a year earlier, and Iwata backed down and allowed the commercials to air.
>Reggie wanted to visit Iwata in the hospital during his first cancer bout in 2014, but told Reggie that "business associates don't visit the hospital for each other" and that "Nobody else has come to visit him." Reggie insisted and Iwata let him come and visit.
>Shuntaro Furukawa, the current President of Nintendo, helped arrange the hospital meeting and drove Reggie to the hospital. He stated to Reggie that, after he pushed to see Iwata, Iwata began to let others visit him at the hospital.
>Iwata's daughter and wife were also in the hospital room and visited with Reggie. Iwata said that his daughter "was a big fan" of Reggie.
>Reggie and his NOA business entourage almost missed the Iwata's viewing due to weather delays caused by a typhoon. They had the temple stay open late to accommodate the entourage and Tatsumi Kimishima, Nintendo's next President, allowed Reggie to see Iwata's body.
>Iwata summoned Reggie for three days to Nintendo's headquarters in Kyoto in March, 2015 despite Reggie having birthday plans with his wife on those days specifically to tell him that his cancer had returned He coulda just told him that over the phone lmao
Jaxson Gomez
Please keep going.
Luke Torres
Wii Sports being packaged in America is also because of Reggie, plus Wii Play being bundled in with a Wii Mote. Reggie seemed based as fuck at Nintendo.
Alexander Hall
moar
Tyler Gomez
Management position are full of time wasting non-jobs to seem like they do anything important.
Brayden Fisher
Is that why it became garbage after he left.
David Campbell
any other good biographies about people in the games industry worth checking out?
Grayson Gutierrez
Damn, this makes me respect the guy even more than I did before, good on him!
Charles Baker
>Reggie wanted to visit Iwata in the hospital during his first cancer bout in 2014, but told Reggie that "business associates don't visit the hospital for each other" The fucck is with JPN biz people so stuck up their own ass?
>Wants to have birthday party with wife all happy and shit
>Hey Reggie. Come over to Japan so I can tell you something >I have cancer
What a cunt.
Eli Fisher
I recently read an article about Reggie.
I had no idea this dude was back.
Hudson Hughes
The Japanese have the most retarded business culture on Earth and I say that having dealt with them for a decade. It's an absolute miracle anything comes out of that fucking island.
Matthew Baker
I want to read the chapter about how the Yakuza have cancer guns and Iwata was punished for the Wii U flopping
Jacob Brown
Got to hand it to them, no other country's business culture has single-handedly collapsed their birthrate.
Nathan Jenkins
black*
Oliver Edwards
I am reading it, Reggie seems a bit self-centered to me and those self-help parts with marketing guru lessons are quite unnecessary. But it looks like an interesting read for now.
Colton Jones
>ut told Reggie that "business associates don't visit the hospital for each other" and that "Nobody else has come to visit him." >, Iwata began to let others visit him at the hospital.
so it was more about iwata not wanting to let people see him sick and come visit rather than nobody want to come
You know, even knowing that Reggie was almost certainly part of the problem behind some of NoA's dumber decisions (mother 3...) I think he's ironically one of the better corporate higher-up types.
Ryan Hughes
About as many Haitian's as I've seen named Reggie. Shit. Whitest name ever.
>Reggie had to pay for his own education as his parents were too poor and couldn't take out a loan.
>Went to Cornell University on an Air Force ROTC scholarship.
>During this period, he started to play video games for the first time with his social group, starting with the Magnavox Odyssey, Atari, and Coleco systems.
>Eventually, he opted out of ROTC and paid his own education through loans he took out himself, a few small academic scholarships, and part-time work.
>Got his first real start at Procter and Gamble.
Ryan Martinez
Paris is probably filled to brim with niggas that have similar last names.
Asher Long
>His family on both sides used to be well off in Haiti, but decided to work against President Duvalier and were banished from Haiti. That's not the truth. His grandparents on both sides were involved in the conflict in high power positions. His maternal grandfather was a member of the Haiitian government and his paternal grandfather was a general in the military. They left for precautionary safety reasons because no matter who won, they would've lost and probably been killed.
Justin Thompson
>certainly part of the problem behind some of NoA's dumber decisions (mother 3...) how so? i thought he wanted mother 3 very much?
Dylan Cruz
This. It's a fantastic read. It was written in the early 2000s so it stops around 2003. But nothing beyond that point matters, anyway.
Isaiah Gutierrez
Yeah, but he still ultimately participated in their "playful" acknowledgement of it (and continued refusal to bring it over). I also feel like he must have been part of the marketing bias that created the weird generation of rabid Nintendo fans who are absolutely feral about "anime" games.
Dylan Bell
>Shuntaro Furukawa, the current President of Nintendo, helped arrange the hospital meeting and drove Reggie to the hospital. He stated to Reggie that, after he pushed to see Iwata, Iwata began to let others visit him at the hospital. Wow thats actually really nice
Henry Collins
So far it sounds like Japanese people have no soul when it comes to your fellow man.
Be it your family, your longtime coworker or just a dude on the street.
Reggie was doing a very WESTERN way of thinking AKA having a soul
Easton Peterson
>But nothing beyond that point matters, anyway. Why not? All their failures are part of the history too.
this Reggie dude strikes me as the type who really likes to pat himself on the back and sniff his own farts.
Matthew Cook
Keep going Is it a pretty good book? Maybe I can hunt down a pdf of it
Jack Edwards
>>Reggie wanted to visit Iwata in the hospital during his first cancer bout in 2014, but told Reggie that "business associates don't visit the hospital for each other" and that "Nobody else has come to visit him." Reggie insisted and Iwata let him come and visit. > >>Shuntaro Furukawa, the current President of Nintendo, helped arrange the hospital meeting and drove Reggie to the hospital. He stated to Reggie that, after he pushed to see Iwata, Iwata began to let others visit him at the hospital. > >>Iwata's daughter and wife were also in the hospital room and visited with Reggie. Iwata said that his daughter "was a big fan" of Reggie. based...
Lincoln Butler
Because everything that happened beyond that point was pretty much already explained would happen. As mentioned that Carmack only cared about tech, everything they did after that point were just lackluster tech demos that nobody really care about. Could talk about the history of 2016 but they probably won't be too open about the deep details this early and it would just culminate into how Hackjob Martin butchered that franchise.
Jason Taylor
Chapter 4.
>This entire chapter talks about his time at Procter and Gamble and how he was in charge of marketing for Crisco. He introduced different marketing strategies despite a limited budget and managed to get the brand to outperform sales expectations.
Chapter 5
>Gets hired by PepsiCo to help with marketing with Pizza Hut in the 1990s and struggles to get his idea in line with the higher ups of the company.
>Starts playing SNES at the time.
>Claims he 100%ed Super Mario World using the help from guides in Nintendo Power and Electronic Gaming Monthly.
>Eventually makes his way to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
>Describes his life as developing marketing strategies for Pizza Hut by day and playing Zelda by night. He was so dedicated to completing the game that he ended up calling the Nintendo hotline out of frustration.
>He played late one night until right up to the final boss. He went to sleep, went to work, and got home in the evening to find that his son got on his save file and beat Ganon for him.
There's not been much in the genre of gaming regarding biographies. There's a really old Nintendo Biography called Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry by David Sheff from 1993. Really baity title aside, it's actually a really good biography of the company up to 1993. But it's really notable in that the author actually got access to interview Miyamoto for the book because it was a very serious book aimed at people who would be reading the New York Times.
Otherwise you got some real pulpy material like Console Wars by Blake Harris which has some major bias issues (Like having so much access to former Sega employees and little to Nintendo meant it's told mainly from Sega's side) but has some interesting biographical nuggets like the formation of the ESRB. Which, as astounding as it sounded in the book with Nintendo and Sega employees yelling at each other and about to throw fists in the middle of a New York snowstorm. Turned out, that actually happened and was confirmed by former Sega and Nintendo employees in the documentary series based on the book.
Mason Russell
>got home in the evening to find that his son got on his save file and beat Ganon for him. That little shit!
Luis White
I just lost the game :(
Tyler Flores
Yea that lack of investigative written work about the history of this industry and it's figures is pretty criminal. You probably won't get much from the Japanese because they are outrageously closed mouthed about their goings-on and deep histories.
Luke Murphy
>He went to sleep, went to work, and got home in the evening to find that his son got on his save file and beat Ganon for him. ah ha ha ha ha ha
>Reggie was summoned to Wichita to help develop a national strategy to launch the new Bigfoot Pizza.
>Eventually wanted to back off because the pizza was designed from the ground up to be cheap and he saw a potential problem that could harm Pizza Hut's reputation overall.
Traditionalism. Everything's cut and quartered for the appropriate results. Mixing things spreads duties and influence amongst those unwarranted for council.
Asher Scott
Because its important to have the best man/woman for a job. This becomes conflicted when someone is your friend and also works for you. The Japanese are smart for keeping these aspects of their life separate.
Tyler Nguyen
Japan is the hardest by far and a lot of authors have mentioned it's near impossible to get anyone from Nintendo or Sony. I wish Ken Kutaragi would put out a book, he's probably got some incredible stories.
On the western side, there's been a few books on the Xbox and that documentary Microsoft did that was surprisingly good. But very little on individual figures in the industry. Who would be interesting enough to write a biography though?
Jose White
dude, they have family business shit that run for hundreds of year fucking nintendo was a family hand down type of company before iwata as well
Isaiah Russell
this is great thanks user
Jaxon Parker
Yes but obviously they're going to have to engage in consultation and business dealings with the established corporate culture in Japan, which is hard ass. They are a big business now with way more avenues and established codes of conduct to deal with tradespeople and businesses elementally different from their own. So even if you give that its just an inevitability.
Brayden Myers
>Who would be interesting enough to write a biography though? Don't start with individual people. You start with the company. Through digging into the company you eventually find the individual people with interesting stories. Valve and Gabe would be a good point to start, though. From there would could even move into Dario Casali. Branching off the Masters of Doom book, American McGee would be another good read.
Ethan Lee
>American McGee would be another good read More like a really fucking depressing read.
Adrian Powell
>American McGee yes valve and gabe would be boring as fuck imo
