Originally Posted by Kotaku

John Riccitiello asks Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime: "Why did you show the development community the video of your presentation but the press the live presentation? What were your considerations?"

I ferried this question to Fils-Aime, who tackled it at the conclusion of our half-hour interview. It should be noted that, by answering, Fils-Aime became the first repeat participant in my Chain Interviews. He was in the first one, too.

Reggie Fils-Aime responds: "Let me give a little bit of background. As we were prepping for this year's E3 and had the objective of a venue close by, to be convenient for all of the attendees, the options were quite limited. In the end, we chose Club Nokia with the expectation that a house of about 1200 people would be appropriate. Unfortunately, between the media, business partners and guests from around the world, our total invite acceptances ended up being over 3000. So that's what created the challenge of finding a second venue in very short order, which is why we did that supplemental experience in the Theater. So, we made a tough business decision that it was most important for the media to see it live, and we also made a decision that we would not make hierarchical decisions as to whether any business partners should view it in the Club.

"Said another way, I would have loved to have John in the Club. I would have loved to have had [Activision Blizzard chairman] Bobby [Kotick] in the Club. I would love to have [Activision Blizzard CEO] Mike [Griffiths] in the Club. Where do I draw the line? So we made the business decision to have all of our retailers, all of our other business partners, all of our publishers in Nokia Theatre."

And so the chain interview would have ended, because I had no one else to interview. But I suggested to Reggie that, if he was interested, we could extend the chain from him to Kotaku's readers. "I would love to ask the readers a question," he said."

OK then…

Reggie Fils-Aime asks Kotaku's readers: "In the same vein of Team Ninja working with Nintendo to re-imagine Metroid, what development group would your readers love to see partner and collaborate with Nintendo? And on what franchise?"

I warned Reggie that he'd be raising expectations with a question like that. He laughed. "Maybe it'll give us some further options on what to consider."

Please keep the chain going, Kotaku, by answering Reggie.

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera (Post 943140)

Originally Posted by phil_ (Post 943179)

Can I just have more games from Game Freak that aren't Pokémon? I don't want a Drill Dozer sequel, but that game shows what they can do when they're let loose.

Originally Posted by Kerensky287 (Post 943177)

Or, for added hilarity...

MOTHER

With...

SUDA 51

This!

Originally Posted by Meister (Post 943227)

e: Zelda to Team Ico.