A Nintendo of America executive confirmed this week that the video-game company has been taking bids for a 27-acre Redmond site that it previously eyed for expansion. The vacant site is just north of the Japanese company's North American headquarters, on the west side of state Route 520 in the city.
Microsoft is one of the bidders....
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The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
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A guy from Nintendo Looking through binoculars out one window and seeing A guy from Microsoft Looking right back at him through another window!
A guy from Nintendo Looking through binoculars out one window and seeing A guy from Microsoft Looking right back at him through another window!
the only thing i can say is where the Hell is Silicon Valley...
Why not say the city. there is no city called Silicon Valley.
Its San Jose, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Milpitas... Its a lot of friggin cities. Only outsiders say Silicon Valley... Everyone else just says San Jose. or South Bay/ East Bay.
For some reason, this annoyed me today... thats it that my rant.
Just this week they announced they were tripling the size of their Fargo operation.
Now this.
(Oh, and MS has a big presence in "Silicon Valley" too, starting with their Mac group.)
Makes you wonder what they're expanding *for*...
Not that anybody cares but the Redwest campus is right across the street from my house.
RuJoshin - There are other MS buildings next door to Nintendo campus. Directly south of what the map details. In fact both the MS and Nintendo company stores are on the same street, just opposite sides. So I am sure the binoculars stuff has been going on for years.