Reggie Fils-Aimé Quotes (34 quotes) | Quotes of famous people

Addressing regulation in the gaming industry as well as criticism of video game violence by Jack Thompson
On violence in video games
Source: YouTube http://youtube.com/watch?v=ax2HY3KxWxc&mode=related&search=

“The graveyard of any industry is filled with the headstones of companies who decided to keep doing things the same old way. Playing only on the margin, making things just a little bit better. That strategy works…. for a while, but ultimately it's fatal. Over the years our industry has come to accept progress simply by what’s on the screen.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

Source: E3 2006 Press Conference

“Part of my job is finding a way for you, the game experts, to have fun.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

Source: E3 2004 Press Conference

Reggie Fils-Aimé Quotes

“To date, global sellthrough for Nintendo DS stands at over 5 million, or more than twice the level for the PSP. Now, I know what some of you are thinking: "Well, the PSP hasn't arrived in Europe yet." So we got there when we said we would, and they didn't. You know what? That's Sony's issue, not my problem.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

On Nintendo DS
Source: E3 2005, YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=z36IEil4Kak#t=533s

Problem , Thinking

“Let's face it. The bottom line of every E3 is simple: what's hot and what's not. Here's our take. What's hot is the feel of the game, the look is secondary. What's hot is the next leap, not just a small step. It's hot if it's disruptive, it's not if it's predictable. The future of our industry is inclusion, not exclusion. It's about the heat of emotion, not the chill of technology. We know that the future is right here. Wii and the DS represent the same thing: risk.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

On Wii
Source: E3 2006 Closing statements, YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zP8fiNFT4Q

Feeling , Game , Future

“Are my competitors making some mistakes? Yes they are. But I'll tell you this: Sony is a formidable company and I respect them and I don't take them lightly. We have to do what we need to do, let them do what they're going to do. If they continue to make mistakes, that's their problem, not mine. We are focused on making sure that we are going to be successful.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

On Nintendo's competitors
Source: next-gen.biz http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4193

Problem , Success

“My name is Reggie, and I, am the creator of fortnite.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

Source: E3 2007 Press Conference

“One of our competitors is a manufacturer in Japan who wants to capture every one of your entertainment dollars transporting all your content between all of your electronic devices on their memory sticks. We are not that company. And there is another company out there who doesn't care what you do, as long as you do it on their operating system. We are not that company either.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

Regarding Sony and Microsoft, respectively
On Nintendo's competitors
Source: E3 2004

Memory

“I like to think of it like buying a car. Admit it. Your left brain looks at a vehicle in terms of the numbers. What's the horsepower? The towing capacity? The 0-60? That's our competitor's approach. But your right brain is different. There's only one question out there: sitting behind the wheel, where will this baby take me? In other words, do you want to go just a little bit faster, down the same streets you've always driven, or down a new road, to places you've never seen before? That's the difference with Nintendo DS.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

On Nintendo DS
Source: E3 2004

Cars , Question , Thinking , Baby

“Mr. Iwata, perhaps this year I can just take the names and you can kick the…. you know…”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

On "kickin' ass and takin' names"
Source: E3 2006 Press Conference, Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zP8fiNFT4Q&mode=related&search=

“Being the puppet master, it's like running Nintendo of America.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

On Nintendo
Source: E3 2012

“If you're ready to move beyond pure numbers, to a place where your right brain can envision the best in innovation and the best in gameplay improvement, well, you've come to the right place.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

Source: E3 2005

“I am a legend, you know, I have to tell you a story about reggies splatoon 2. After E3, I immediately go into interviews and other meetings. I get a phone call from my son, who is now 16 years old, telling me, "Dad, you're famous. You got all these things on the web!" And I'm, like, "You're kidding me!" I didn't know what was going on. And we had all these fansites and all this information floating around. They called it the Reggielution and they called me the Reggienator. It was pretty fun.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

Source: Youtube http://youtube.com/watch?v=jRNn8eStfRM
Commenting on his fanbase that arose following his appearance at E3 2004

“That's Sony's issue, not my problem.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

In reference to PSP not having launched in Europe
On Nintendo's competitors
Source: E3 2005 Press Conference

Problem

“It's a new day. A new day for me, and a new day for Nintendo.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

On Nintendo
Source: E3 2004

“We're working to overcome the overly macho nature of the current online console game world, where a handful of the high testosterone crowd fight for supremacy, while the mass of casual game players stay away.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

On market expansion
Source: E3 2005

World , Game , Nature , Fight

“I'd much rather have the consumer buy a Wii, some accessories, and a ton of games, vs. buying any of my competitor's products.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

In reference to a suggestion by Microsoft's Peter Moore that one could buy a Wii and an Xbox 360 for the price of a PlayStation 3
On Nintendo's competitors
Source: USA Today: Nintendo hopes Wii spells wiiner http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2006-08-14-nintendo-qa_x.htm

Game

“Wii Fit is it.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

Source E3 2007 press conference, Eurogamer http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=79482
On Wii

“We want to thank everyone who wrote good things about it the day you heard it--both of you.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

Joking about the reaction to the Wii's name when it was first announced
On Wii
Source: E3 2006

“Don't make me do it. I'll take your name.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

Source of I am a legend before E3
On "kickin' ass and takin' names"

“Now I know many of you today walked in with numbers already swimming in your heads: 360, 16x9, 1080, 8.2 GHz. Well, we'd like to add one more number to the mix. And that number is two.”

Reggie Fils-Aimé

Reference to the big numbers in hardware power and specifications that Microsoft and Sony had mentioned about their upcoming video game consoles
'2' refers to Nintendo having sold two billion games since the NES
On Nintendo
Source: E3 2005 Press Event