Reggie Fils-Aime Bought an Xbox Over GameCube Before He Joined Nintendo - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 December 2021 / 2,221 Views
The former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé hosted an Xbox roundtable as part of the 20th anniversary of Xbox. The round table included 343 Industries head Bonnie Ross, former Xbox corporate vice president Peter Moore, former Microsoft Game Studios vice president Ed Fries and former chief Xbox officer Robbie Bach.
One point discussed during the roundtable was for everyone to share their favorite Xbox moment.
"When Xbox launched, I wasn't in the industry, so I was a consumer," Fils-Aimé responded. "And I was that prototypical consumer that had a PS2 in my house already. I had an N64.
"I was thinking about a GameCube, but I actually didn’t buy a GameCube until I was already part of Nintendo.
"My son, an avid gamer, was the one saying 'we need to check out this Xbox thing, and we need to go.' And the driver was Halo.
"The driver was Halo, and that experience is what got the original Xbox into my house, with that big old controller. And so that is my Xbox memory, from the very beginning."
Fils-Aimé didn't join Nintendo until December 2003.
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The timing of this speaks volumes. It was recently leaked that Phil is being pressured to name his successor and now this? Reggie confirmed to be the future leader.
Edit* A lot of people took this reply seriously. Come on, people.
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Phil being pressured ? Why ?
Probably to step aside so that some other people have a chance to move up in the company and they can maintain a continuity of talent. He's been with Microsoft for a really long time.
Pressured to name a successor for the future, not immediate. He isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Microsoft almost exclusively promotes from within the company. So, while I'm sure Reggie could come into a high level position there if he wanted, I doubt that they would just stick him in there to run Xbox. Also, I seriously doubt that he wants that job. If he did, he'd have stayed at Nintendo. He stuck with Nintendo through some crappy years, and then left when things were looking good. Anybody that seriously wants to work in that kind of role would stay there through the good years as well. The fact that he left tells us that he just didn't want to do that kind of job anymore.
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Halo knocked my socks off too when I first played it so no surprise it drove XBox sales early on.
To be honest, that was the last time I owned 3 different consoles in the same gen (PS2, Xbox, & Gamecube).
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At least he didn't buy a PlayStation or we could have had a headline reading Reggie gets the sack from Nintendo after he was found in possession of a PlayStation. Reggie has denied any knowledge of the console but video has been uncovered of him in a dark alley handing over a brown paper bag seemingly full of unusual gold coins while receiving a PlayStation from a shady looking guy, potentially Yakuza going by the alias of Crazy Ken .
Why and how this video was taken and only suddenly surfaced now has been a mystery but we think we have solved it by tracing it to a Doug Bowser, and that's where this already murky story gets even murkier, since the Bowser name is apparently known to be linked to kidnapping so this may have been an extortion racket stay tuned.
My order of consoles that gen was Dreamcast in early 2000, PS2 in the spring of 01, Gamecube at launch (fall of 01) and Xbox in very late 02. So it's not really that big a deal to me. Lots of us didn't participate in the "wars", so to speak. We just wanted to play the best games, and in order to do that, you had to buy them all.
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