To Nintendo and back again one emails journey.

[shadowprophet]

Have you ever thought about writing a huge developer like nintendo?
Have you ever wondered, what might happen if someone did reply to your email?
What sage insight The big N may drop upon you, Just because you felt the need to ask?
Well, Here is an example of the kind of reply one may receive from the big N.
Regardless of the general content. Its still humbling that massive corporations Like nintendo hire staff to do a job a dedicated email bot could reply too.

My original question to nintendo.

From: [email protected]
Posted At: 08:11:27.000 12/25/2006
Posted To: Nintendo <[email protected]>
Subject: Webform: Wii > General Questions / Feedback

Dear nintendo, Merry X-Mas! and congratulations on the success of the wii.
My friends and I would like to know some information, We are wondering.
If Zelda 2 (NES), Zelda, A link to the past (Snes), Zelda, ocarina of time, and majora's mask(N64), Are ever going to be released for the wii virtual console?
Any information on these titles pertaining to there Wii virtual console
releases would be greatly appreciated, however vague it may be,
Thank you in advance ,
Shadowprophet, And friends,

Their Reply.

Message(#6851-000540-7211\5407211)
Hello and thank you for contacting Nintendo,
I hope that you and your friends are enjoying the Wii console. At this
time, however, future titles that may be released for the Virtual Console
have not been announced.
Keep checking our website. When new titles are announced, you will see
them listed on our site.
Thanks for your email and good luck with all your games!

Nintendo of America Inc.
Bruce Mann

After reading this I decided, This was and awfully generic response.
I then decided to write them back one more time, But rather then send them a brand new email I just replied to the one they sent me and sent it back, Hoping that if someone human saw it, they would see this wasn't my first attempt at getting some kind of resolution to my questions.

So I sent them this

From: "ProPhetic Justice" <[email protected]>
Posted At: 17:26:46.000 01/02/2007
Posted To: Nintendo <[email protected]>
Subject: On the subject of Zelda 2,

Okay, I have one last question that I would like cleared up, If you guys have the
time. See Zelda 2 has been announced for release on the virtual console in Japan.
Why is there no news on an american or European launch ?
Does this mean titles like kid icarus, mario kart 64 and zelda 2 wont see a
state side virtual console release?

there is a whole different set of red tape nintendo must endure to
see the titles released in other countries??
Thanks again in advance guys. I promise If I get a response for this email, this will be the last time I bug you guys about the issue, lol :P
Signed Shadowprophet.

From: Nintendo <[email protected]> To: [email protected]
Subject: Re : Webform: Wii > General Questions / Feedback Date: Thu, 28 Dec
2006
Their reply


Hello,

It's great to hear from the many fans excited about the Virtual Console! So
many of you have contacted Nintendo regarding the games you would love to see
added. While we appreciate your excitement and support, decisions regarding
which games will be made available come from several different companies and are
influenced by a variety of factors apart of consumer suggestions.

The best place to share your excitement is through our Wii NSider Forums. The
NSider Forums may be accessed by clicking the link below:

http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/board?board.id=vc
To post your comments, you'll need a My Nintendo membership. However, it's free
and easy to get by going to the following web page:
http://my.nintendo.com/cpp/mynintendo/myNintendo.do
If you have questions about NSider Forums, please visit our FAQ page:
http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/help_faq
For more details about the Virtual Console, including a list of software that
will be made available by Dec. 31st, check out the following web page:
http://wii.nintendo.com/virtualconsole.jsp

Going forward, we anticipate anywhere from 10-15 new Virtual Console titles a
month across all systems, so there's hope that the title you're looking for will
eventually appear. Keep checking our website (www.nintendo.com) for updates!

Sincerely,
Nintendo of America Inc.
Shane O'Neil

Anyhow, It seems they where at least willing to hear me out even If they where awfully Vague about the issue. Anyway, Just thought I would post this as the follow up to my post weeks ago. It really takes nity about a full week to respond to an email for some reason.

As always Feel Free to

Leave feedback Via Comments below

[crispyambulance]

I'm probably being mean, but this is an accomplishment?

[mcvader]

the funny thing is the 2 games you mentioned are both as nintendo as can be, I wonder what other companys they have to consult to release their own games.

[shadowprophet]

I'm probably being mean, but this is an accomplishment?

No, lol Out of boredom and lack of anything better to do at the time, I posted this. I thought people may find it interesting. ;)

[alienanthropologist]

I think it's interesting. I have thought of writing to Nintendo before, but somehow thought that if I did, I'd be likely to receive no reply. Maybe I was wrong.

[punkypine]

auto responses ftw?

[masterpaul]

Ιn my oppinon,

I think that a computer is replaying to the email by looking for specific key words or phrases and sending back an answer.

[goity]

I must say that it does sound quite botty.

[Dee-Lite]

I dont see anything wrong with those replies. Of course only Saturu or Reggie would know the answer to your question (which in my opinion is lame) but it's obvious that an employee has replied to your email and not a bot.

What you should have asked is:

Whats the point in bringing out VC games at all?? Lets look at Mario Kart 64 - you ain't even guna include any extra features HINT online play. Whats the point?

Just ripping everyone off by charging us money to play the games we (most of us) ALREADY PAID for in the past. Stop milking us!

yours sincerely

Dee

lol

[shadowprophet]

I have five vc games' bonk, zelda,mario64,toe jam' and warios woods....

each week it is a ritual, that I pick up another wii point card.
I now have 9600 points (yes 96$) and not a single game in the shop channel to spend them on.
even todays releases where old crap nobody cares about.
it makes no since to me that nintendo is basicly maintaining a virtual tg16 at the momont in america and europe,
while Japan gets the really great titles..

you know something, this current nintendo treatment has a strangely dejavu feeling too it :(

[shadowprophet]

sorry double post,
seems with the forum bugs as of late, I cant seem to delete this post :l