O Reggie, Reggie, wherefore where art thy “September Surprise?”
Monday, October 8th, 2007 at 1:05pm by Jack
Far be it from me to tell a high powered, high paid, ass kicking executive how to do his job, but I will anyway.
Reggie, where the heck is my Nintendo September Surprise? I forgot to change my desk calendar, so it still *appears* to be September, but deep in my gut I know it’s really October 8. On this fine Columbus Day here in the Americas I am feeling, in a word or five, let down and ripped off.
Where is the hard drive announcement? Or the surprise $50 price cut? Or the Midna full body massages?
So far, the Smash Bros. online functionality was cool if not a little ambiguous, and the NEO GEO VC games are a nice touch, but both are neither mega or ton in their impact on the daily lives of Nintendo supporters everywhere. If it weren’t for my blind devotion to the House of Mario I might dare say I feel a bit … disappointed this morning.
October 8th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Eh… Hello? Sin and Punishment on VC? I was surprised! And happily so!
October 8th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
The surprise was Link’s Crossbow Training. Y’all are impossible to please these days!
October 8th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Wherefore = why
October 8th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Maybe it was the Import VC games? They arrived on October 1st, so it might have been that they got delayed?
October 8th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
I’ll second the sentiment Jack. I wasn’t expecting a megaton, but I was expecting SOME announcement. My fingers were crossed for an HDD, or better yet, a firmware update that allows us to use the SD card for running VC games from/DLC. Oh well.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Ahh..the blogging internet, someone says something off the cuff, and it becomes an official announcement to the WORLD!
You know, they don’t have to even humor us, they could say nothing and just release press releases and never say anything to the “press”…
But then we wouldn’t have anything to guess about, wait around and get excited for, specially now that E3 is dead.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
I agree with johnny
October 8th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
It was Sin and Punishment… you didn’t get the memo, Jack??
October 8th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Johnnymilkshark is correct: the ‘September Suprise’ was Link’s Crossbow Training, not Sin & Punishment (although that was an equally awesome surprise).
October 8th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Err, *surprise
October 8th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
All i want to hear from Reggie is the words, “the September surprise is…” he can claim whatever he wants, but please say it is a surprise so we can move on Reggie!
October 8th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Maybe it was the Wiimote covers? The millions they spent to give people something for free?
October 8th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
The poor man said he had good news, not a life changing epic announcement. He personally has been spreading the word in the mainstream media that there’ll be unprecedented availability of Wiis. Do you seriously want more?
October 8th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Anyone who doesn’t read this post with at least a small amount of tongue in cheek needs to be flogged.
October 8th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
art = *second person* conjugation of the verb “to be”
October 8th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
“Do you seriously want more?”
This has nothing to DO with ” MORE”.
All we want is the “September surprise”. Nothing “More” than that. It never came, and it was HE who teased about it .
Smash Bros online? Hardly a surprise to anyone who follows Nintendo closely.
A free mini game with the Wii Zapper? Also well known to be bundled in, albeit we did not know the exact title of the game bundle.
An old N64 game which never made it out of Japan, now available on the Virtual console at a premium price? Not exactly a surprise that all the Nintendo fans would be happy about.
Neo-Geo games on the VC? This was announced much sooner than September, thus of no real surprise when it finally came out on our systems.
It is not the endo of the world, but when Reggie usually says something, he does it. I hope that a decent surprise does exist and that we hear about it soon.
Nice article, btw
October 9th, 2007 at 2:44 am
Next time they (Nintendo) say somthing I’ll believe it when i see it…
Atleast I want to see is an upgrade of the latest FLASH 8 version of OPERA for the internet channel , as of now we are limited to only watching You Tube videos.
When will the internet channel support a keyboard ? why the Wii cant send instant message (AIM/Yahoo messanger) when my cell phone can do it with ease..
What happend with the new channels? (the mii channel). When will the Wii have the download station for DS game demos ? Wheres the VC demo channel and/or the preview channel not only previews Nintendo game titles but also 3rd party games. where is the hard drive ? And last i think the Wii’s menu needs an overhaul , the addition of the clock was neat but that wasnt enough….its just too plain, ugly and boring to look at..
Now where is my september surprise? The mentioned above not included.