Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo’s big dawg in the US recently stated to SFGate.com when asked about how he felt about the other platforms :

“I’ve been very intrigued with Little Big Planet (from Sony). I don’t know that it belongs on their platform. Microsoft has done well. There are a range of first-person shooter type games that are all very well done that could all do quite well on a Nintendo platform.”

Woah…this is a first in a long time that I’ve seen head chiefs from one major gaming company actually complimenting another, not to mention even insisting that perhaps the other company’s idea may do well on his? Now that’s a first. Finally we get some comments from Nintendo that make sense for once.

Reggie then continues with his view on Halo :

“Certainly, the Halo trilogy - anyone who would look at that and say, “No, I think we could live without it,” probably doesn’t think real long about this industry.”

I do agree. The Halo series has taken multiplayer gaming on the console to another level - an area which is highly dominated by PC gamers. But I still don’t believe that it was totally worth the hype it somehow received(damm right I said that!). Reggie finishes off by commenting about one of the ground breaking games of the year :

“Even games like BioShock. I thought that was tremendously well done. The writing was tremendously clever. I would love to see more of that type of content in the industry overall that actually makes people think a little bit.”

Yep, definitely need more of that. It doesn’t even have to be a first person shooter. It just has to be a good quality game. Perhaps Nintendo has finally came to their senses and will start to enforce only quality games from the developers and no more mini games? Heh, yeah right. With all the success they’re rolling in right now, Nintendo isn’t about to change nothing anytime soon. But we can all wish….It’s interesting how these comments from Reggie contrast with his previous comments on Halo, and Kaplan’s comments on the gaming industry. Yet even though he is complimenting the other companies and their work, there are still folks who have something complain about….you know who you are.