News For June 28, 2018 includes New President of Nintendo, Reggie, Walwigi and More!

News For June 28, 2018 includes New President of Nintendo, Reggie, Walwigi and More!

Alright, so today is a big day! From interviews with Reggie, to Nintendo having a new president, get ready, because were diving into all the interesting news. But before we start, please consider liking, sharing and subscribing to NintendosView. Now, let's go!

Reggie Interviews

So there have been two interviews with Reggie Files Anime, the President of Nintendo of America. One even featured Walwigi! Lets dive right it!

Improving Nintendo Eshop

Recently, Waypoint got to interview Reggie himself and got to talk about the eshop. Pretty much they brought up there concern that any one game that's not best-selling is almost impossible to find. Here is the interview.

The new thing I’m hearing from independent developers—who also tell me that they love to be on the Switch—is that there is some growing frustration with the curation and discoverability on the eShop. They think it’s a great platform. Fans are finding their games there through external curation: through journalists, through critics, through social media-
Through our own support.
Totally. But when I open up the Switch, and I go to the store, if something isn’t best-selling or didn’t just come out, it’s just so easy to miss it. What can you commit to in terms of improving that?
Improving curation is something that we’re committed to do and we’ve just taken some steps.
We’ve added two new “shelves,” essentially two new categories for you to use to find the content you want. One is an overall best-selling category. The other one is a digital only best seller, because from a Nintendo perspective we make our products available dual distribution, and an independent developer might not. And so numerically, the numbers are different. So, you know, that’s a step that we’ve just taken. We continue to look at other ways to enhance curation.
You touched on, let’s call it “off-device curation.” We’re working exceptionally hard to drive that forward with what we do on Nintendo.com and how we enhance search capabilities. There’s a lot of work that we’re doing.
In the end I believe the reason that the independent developer is saying that their games are selling best Switch is because of, in total, that environment we’re creating. Consumers are highly engaged. Consumers are looking for this content. And the activity that we’re doing and will continue to do to help consumers find this great content.


So what does this mean? Well, I thought it was pretty straight forward. Nintendo is working on making the eshop better. And that's about it!

Walwigi Interview

Waypoint also interviewed Reggie on the fact that Walwigi is not in Super Smash Bros Ultimate. As I'm sure you know, now that Ridley is in, Walwigi is the most requested fighter. Here's the interview.

So, you’re sitting in front of Mario Tennis Aces poster. I need to know your main is?
[Forcefully, while holding back a laugh] WALUIGI.
OK, well listen… Why does Nintendo hate Waluigi then?
I… Oh- CLEARLY-.
[laughing] The Washington Post says-
CLEARLY-
You saw the headlines!
CLEARLY, Nintendo does not hate Waluigi. Because here I am with him as my main character. I mean look, we’re making every character that’s ever been in a Smash Bros. game available in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
[Laughing] But not Waluigi .
[With faux exhaustion] You would think that would be enough to satisfy the fans. But noooooo! The fans have to focus in on one character that isn’t part of the series and to demand their inclusion.
So, one of the good things about the way we approach E3 is when it’s all said and done we step back. We look at all of the feedback and share with the devs and certainly Mr. Sakurai will be aware of the groundswell of support that appeared for a Waluigi. And in the end it’s his decision to make. Just like when we were getting ready to launch the Wii U and 3DS version there was this groundswell asking for Reggie to be a playable character in the game. I mean…


What does this mean? Well, it means that Sakurai is aware that many people want Walwigi. However, lots of the fans have been sending hateful tweets that Sakurai had to block, so I'm not sure how likely it is.  

Nintendo Conference

This is Nintendo's 78th comference, and this one will come out with a new president. That's right, its time for Tatsumi Kimishima to step down and the new president to be Shuntaro Furukawa to be the 6th president of Nintendo.

Kimishima Still Wants to Ship 20,000,000 Switch Units & 100,000,000 Games By The End Of This Fiscal Year

While the comference is going, a tweet was sent out that said,

                     "Nintendo is currently holding its shareholder meeting in Kyoto.

President Kimishima just said the plan is to still ship 20 million Switch units and 100 million games by the end of this fiscal year (end of March 2019).

He said all employees at Nintendo are focused to get there."

 

So there still on track to victory? I think that this means that Nintendo really thinks that Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee and Super Smash Bros Ultimate are going to sell WELL!

 

 

 

And there you have it. What are your thoughts on the news so far from today? Let us know in the comments. Thanks for joining us.