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Satoru Iwata Initially Didn't Want Wii Sports Bundled With Wii In The US, Says Reggie

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The Reginator can be quite persuasive.

Details are emerging of Reggie Fils-Aimé's '
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' lecture which he gave yesterday at Cornell University. The hour-long presentation was focused on Reggie's 'principles for next generation leaders', and although the Reginator was held positions at a variety of global companies (Procter and Gamble and Pizza Hut among them), naturally his address touched multiple times on his time at Nintendo and some particularly famous moments he presided over.

One such tidbit to come out of his lecture (according to an attendee who posted details on
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) is the fact that then-Nintendo President Satoru Iwata was actually opposed to the idea of bundling
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with the Nintendo Wii for its US launch. In a section dedicated to his former 'mentor', Reggie reportedly stated that, at first, Iwata didn't think packing in the software with the console was the best approach.

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