[Nintendo Revolution] Deel 11

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Op woensdag 18 mei 2005 14:40 schreef mikando18 het volgende:
http://mozlapunk.web-log.nl/log/2574056

Zou alles dan toch zelf door Nintendo in elkaar gezet zijn als een grote marketing stunt? _{Shit nu ga ik het zelf ook nog geloven}

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Nintendo Manipulation

Alright, here's the deal. Something's been eating away at me... and it could be the thing Nintendo is hiding from us.

See, first things first. A while a go a guy named Aries leaked information about the Revolution on some blog. Most of us thought it was fake. But he said SquareEnix would be on board for the Revolution, and he said Smash Bros. would come on the Revolution, online. So far, this was all announced on the E3.

Aries also said Nintendo would play a game with us this E3, not unlike the movie 'The Game'. He told us that we would get suprises this E3... but so far, no suprises. Also, a week ago a video was leaked called 'NintendON' where a virtual reality set from Nintendo said the words 'use your right brain to play games, use your left one to create them'. The video was proven fake.

Now, at the end of the conference, with almost nothing shown of Revolution, Reggie says 'Tomorrow you'll have to use your right brain.' Is this a hint, subtly spreaded by Nintendo via this fake video, to tell us that Revolution will maybe be playable on the E3 show floor tomorrow?

Time will tell. But I have the feeling Nintendo, IGN, and all other big companies, are taking a walk with us gamers. In the wrong direction. To suprise us. Call me paranoid, but saying 'tomorrow you'll have to use your right brain' JUST after that fake video leak, is too strange to be coincidence...
-Moz

Edit: I have to clear a few things up, especially now that my site seems to be in quite the spotlight. First of all, when I talk about this theory, I do now mean that the helmet seen in the NintendoON video will be real. The video could be mere tool for Reggie to tell us that Revolution will be playable on the show. Also, Aries is posting at the BrokenSaints log again. "Don't be dissapointed, wait till the 19th." We will, we will.

Edit 2: It's with great pleasure to inform you that a lot of sites are talking about my theory, some got it from my blog but others just came up with it theirselves. A lot of people seem to agree, and while this isn't proof (hell, everyone knows how a dissapointed Nintendo fan can be like), it's nice to hear all the same.

Edit 3: Some people are even stating that Aries IS Reggie Fills Aime, the head of sales and marketing of Nintendo of America. Very far fetched, but ONE. KILLER. MARKETINGTRIC. if it's true.

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Nintendo Manipulation Part 2

Dear god,
it's been quite the trip. My post on Nintendo's game they're playing with the press and fans, made me quite some hits. Not to mention all the folks that came and watch the live Sony and Nintendo conferences transcripts.

Now, I said it in 'Nintendo Manipulation Part 1', but just to repeat: we don't know for 100% certain that Nintendo is fooling us. It's widely believed now they're having something up their sleeves, but is widely believed proof? No it isn't. Also, while it's true that I would like this to happen, it's not that my life depends on it. Moz La Punk's blog is an objective place, not 'Teh Fanboy Daycare!!!!11roxxor'.

Now, Osoko Tanaka's blog is telling us that he knows Nintendo is planning something. In sloppy English that is. Broken Saint's blog is running rampage again with Aries fans crawling all over the place. Message boards are filled with the hopes and dreams of fanboys. Every normal human being keeps saying: JESUS CHRIST can those Nintendo fanboys shut up for a moment? Well, for once, just for once, I think they are right. Yeah, I'm quite shocked myself too. They chould be on to something, something not born out of blind fanboyism but true hard facts.

As you can read in my first part of Nintendo Manipulation, Nintendo is trying to give us pieces of a puzzle. They want the Internet community to put the puzzles together because that creates more hype, it makes people giddy with anticipation and mystery. On the conference, Iwata said himself he wanted to keep mystery. He said himself that he was just going to give pieces of the puzzle. That he was going to show the controller later. Reggie said he wanted us to use our right brain today on the showfloor. I'm curious as to what he means with that. Why are Gamespot's and IGN's Revolution sites not online yet? Why are big press sites not talking about how the Nintendo conference was slightly dissapointing? Do they know something we don't?

Plus, Iwata and Reggie seemed OVERLY confident on stage. I couldn't help but feel Iwata was laughing his ass off behing his steal face. It's only a matter of days before we find out if I was wrong, or if I was right. If masses of message boards were wrong, or right. One thing is sure though: These are exciting times to be a gamer.
-Moz

Edit From the conversation below, a summary:
-WHY is IGNCube not updating a bit more? Not even talking alot about the conference. Is Matt sitting in a room with Reggie and Iwata, manically laughing about how their little sceme is going?
-WHY was the Nintendo ON video posted on IGN as a MUST SEE video? A fake video is a must see video?

Edit 2!
Yesterday on nintendo.com I saw some videos when I clicked on 'watch conference' but I didn't really take notice. In the first 2 video's you saw some people from Nintendo talking, they told you that the conference was beginning after a while. Then the third video you saw Reggie looking at you, saying 'Don't make me take your name.' Anyway, the interesting part: fourth video was very small, you saw only Reggies eyes. Eyes... just like some people have been posting the 'one eye, two eyes, one eye, four eyes' sentece, just like IGN was posting pictures of Mario's eyes the last couple of weeks, just like I said on my past blogs.

So... are the eyes ANOTHER hint? And yes, with all this puzzling I DO feel like I'm in the movie the game, Aries...

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Official: NINTENDO IS PLAYING WITH US
It's official now. Nintendo, IGN, Reggie, they're in on the complot.

Remember the Nintendo ON video?

Go and type this in your taskbar:

www.nintendoon.com

It's a complot. We're learning more about Revolution this E3. This has GOT to be the best marketing trick E-V-E-R.

As poster Fezz points out, people are finding out that the domainname NINTENDOON.COM is registered by a certain Reginald F, that means Reggie.

So now we have:
-www.nintendoon.com linking to IGN
-strange videos on nintendo.com yesterday (Reggies eyes close up)
-Iwata and Reggie on conference talking about puzzles and right brain
-IGN being quiet with all this... do they know more?
-the Aries guy... a member of Nintendo? Reggie himself?
-NintendoON.com registered by Reggie...

You know how big this complot theory is? Reggie says this big:

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Op woensdag 18 mei 2005 14:40 schreef mikando18 het volgende:
http://mozlapunk.web-log.nl/log/2574056

Zou alles dan toch zelf door Nintendo in elkaar gezet zijn als een grote marketing stunt? _{Shit nu ga ik het zelf ook nog geloven}

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Op woensdag 18 mei 2005 14:46 schreef kareltje_de_grote het volgende:

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nintendoon.com is 13 mei geregistreed, van welke datum was dat filmpje?

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THE MEGATON

First Reported by: V-Jump Magazine
Date Started: October 1, 2002
Status: False

The Megaton is perhaps the most widely known and hate rumor in videogame history. What started as an innocent joke by the editors of the popular Japanese magazine V-Jump, ended as the biggest disappointment ever for Nintendo fans.

The Megaton was started sometime in October 2002, when V-Jump published a story that stated Nintendo was going to announce something huge in December that would "make GameCubes fly off the shelves."

Speculation immediately went out of control. The following image appeared on the Internet toward the end of November that supposedly revealed what the Megaton was. The three figures were quickly identified as Sonic, Megaman, and Mario, which fueled the already enormous flames that Nintendo was going to purchase Capcom and Sega.

f this wasn't bad enough, Capcom's presentation of the "Capcom 5" (Resident Evil 4, Viewtiful Joe, P.N.03, Killer 7, and Dead Phoenix) on November 13, 2003 didn't help matters at all. Many people saw this as the pretext to the even bigger announcement of a total buy-out by Nintendo.

Further speculation pointed to a Pokemon RPG for the GameCube being developed by Genius Sonority, a developer comprised of many ex-Dragon Quest team members that was being funded by Nintendo's Q-Fund. Even more preposterous, were the theories that Nintendo was going to announce their new hardware that would replace the GBA and GCN!

It wasn't until December 20th, that Nintendo finally commented on the Megaton. Nintendo of Europe's head of Public Relations, Shelly Friend, branded the whole Megaton rumor as "absolute rubbish", and was apparently very amused by the amount of speculation surrounding it. Unfortunately, this only caused more excitement among gamers, because many felt Nintendo was trying to cover-up the true magnitude of the Megaton.

The rumor was finally killed when V-Jump unveiled in January 2003 that the whole Megaton story was a cruel joke. Apparently, the announcement was referring to a Naruto game for GameCube, which is based on a comic that is popular among the V-Jump readers. So you see, this news was "Megaton" to people at V-Jump, but not to anyone else.

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Op woensdag 18 mei 2005 15:01 schreef D.A.A.F. het volgende:
wow.. dat www.nintendoon.com geregistreerd is door iemand genaamd reginald F. is wel bizar. helemaar doordat het doorlinkt naar een fake filmpje op IGN.. strange..

PS: dat IGN of andere sites nog nerges 'revolution' als vast onderdeel van de site (tabblad) hebben staan, kan natuurlijk ook doordat de revo. de werknaam is. Pas de site aanpassen zodra de naam zeker weten is goedgekeurd.. dat zou kunnen

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Message boards are filled with the hopes and dreams of fanboys.

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Op woensdag 18 mei 2005 15:02 schreef Steeven het volgende:
Voor de mensen die het niet meer weten:
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Denk helder mensen, er bestaat geen NINTENDOON. En als het wel zo is vertoon ik mezelf nooit meer in een Nintendo topic op GAM.

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Op woensdag 18 mei 2005 14:56 schreef exile0000 het volgende:
Ik weet één ding: als er echt een marketing-stunt van Nintendo aan de gang is, verwacht ik een topic vol met

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Op woensdag 18 mei 2005 15:02 schreef Steeven het volgende:
Voor de mensen die het niet meer weten:
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Denk helder mensen, er bestaat geen NINTENDOON. En als het wel zo is vertoon ik mezelf nooit meer in een Nintendo topic op GAM.