kotaku.com - 1/20/2009
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Welcome to the Family is a series of three letters that will run this week from the heads of Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. We asked each of the companies to write up a welcome letter to new owners of their consoles. They did the rest. We are running them in the order they were received. ...
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Cammie Dunaway welcomes new Wii owners, talks about the importance of ‘bridge’ games
GoNintendo —
... And on the far end of exploration, we even wanted the experience to be so simple and involving that you’d eventually try to jump into online competition, racing against people around the world. So this bridge really leads in two directions: not just from simple-to-more-involving, but also acting like a link between new gamers and veteran ones. If you’re interested in more of the thinking behind this, you can find Mr. Iwata and the key developers talking about it at Nintendo.com. Full response here This entry was posted on Monday, January 19th, 2009 at 7:40 pm and is filed ...
Cammie Dunaway welcomes new Wii owners
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Filed under: NewsIn an open letter posted on Kotaku as part of their series of "Welcome to the Family" letters, Cammie Dunaway gave one of the lengthiest statements we've seen from the recently-hired executive vice president of sales and marketing. The letter is directed at all the new Wii owners who have joined the fold since the holidays, and lays out the attractive features of the Wii in a manner appropriate for a new gamer. Although fundamentally, we're not sure how many expanded audience members are reading gaming blogs. It's quite ...
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