Posts with tagged with "nintendo direct"

I suppose it's not necessary for me to summarize this morning's new Nintendo Direct presentation, which focused entirely on Wii U a mere week and a half in advance of its American release—plenty of other websites have that useless task covered. But I think I should at least call attention to a few of the neatest little bits that other places probably aren't going to talk too much about.

When Satoru Iwata first started to interrogate his staff for the amusement and enlightenment of the gaming public, it was the beginning of something magical. Until then, virtually all insight into the workings of Nintendo's development process was provided through the lens of "video game journalists." Mere men, slaves to their biases and desires, like any of us. We ask only the questions we want answers to, and tinge the "