The Nintendo N-Game ie. Nintendo has me primed for disappointment again

The little big THE N-GAME summary
Everything in here is pure speculation. Nothing should be taken out of context or be seen as facts. Everything in here is property of Moz La Punk and his fellow visitors that tried really hard to put the pieces together. When copying it to another site, please mention the source or we’ll send Reggie to your home.

What is THE N-GAME?
The N-GAME is a game that’s being played all over Internet for the last 30 hours or so, mostly on message boards of gamesites. It was pretty much born on Gamespot, IGN and on this very blog you are reading. The first piece of puzzle was posted here right after the Nintendo conference was over. We’ll come back to that piece of puzzle later.
Basically, the N-GAME is build on a theory that Nintendo is in fact fooling us this E3. They showed some vague things at their conference, and the Revolution design… and while we were all very happy with that, we expected game footage. Then bells began to ring, about a certain Aries. Aries was a poster on the Broken Saints blog. He told us he was a developer close to Nintendo and he told all kinds of information regarding the Revolution, a month ago. He said Nintendo would play a game with us, not unlike the movie The Game. He also stated various things like SquareEnix being aboard of Revolution and Smash Bros Online… and they’ve come true too. For every important thing Aries ever said, go right here.

If we should believe this information, Nintendo is going to show more of Revolution on May 19 th, the second day of the E3 show.
In the N-GAME we are trying to search for pieces of the big puzzle that Nintendo is leaving behind for us.

So, show me the puzzle!
Alright. Below is a summary of all things that could be connected with the N-GAME, thus ensuring a VERY slim chance of this all being a coincidence.
- Just under a week ago a video was leaked, widely believed to be fake. It was NintendoOn, showing some sort of virtual reality headset that would make you see surroundings through your eyes. It all looked very professional, almost too professional.
- IGN reported on it, saying it was something every Nintendo fan had to say. They said it was fake but they still believed everyone had to see it.
- At the Nintendo pre-E3 conference, things smell fishy. Nintendo acts overly comical, president Iwata seems giddy for some reason, he tells the audience that there is a puzzle and that there is mistery involved… and that we’ll see the controller later. President of sales and marketing, Reggie Fills-Aime, says at the end of the speech that at E3, we should use our right brain. The right brain was pointed out in the fake Nintendo ON video as an important factor.
- Right before the pressconference, the official Nintendo site (http://www.nintendo.com) showed strange little videos. See them here, here and here.
- IGN seems suspiciously quiet about this theories while message boards are flooding with it. Type http://www.nintendoon.com and you’ll be directed to the IGNCube site. Other message boards pointed out that this link is owned by a guy called Regginald… thus, Reggie. This however could be easy to fake.
- Theories pop up about the Revolution controller. Imagine playing games on your tv, then download the game on the controller and take it anywhere to play.
- Picture of Miyamoto with Nintendo ON on his head is released but is proven by me and various others to be fake. It’s a picture from a photo shoot by British mag NGC, from a few years ago. I actually have that issue
- This text is found on Nintendo.com:
"Word has it a secret alcove can be found deeper within the creature
which houses the precious Nintendo Revolution. But gaining access to
the Shangri-la of tomorrow’s video game generation is to remain an
electronic dream."
- Gamespot reports they’ll have a live streaming feature on Thursday May 19 at 12.00 noon, called ‘A Man Called Reggie.’ Many people start to think Reggie is indeed poster Aries in disguise, making sure the hype and the N-GAME is working. Aries and Reggie Fills Aime have a lot in common as far as letters go.
- Analysing Nintendo ON video again, this comes up:
At the fake Nintendo ON video, when the timer hits 3:14, you see this:
Nintendo Revolution Day - 512.000.000
Let’s do some math:
512.000.000 : 1000 = 512.000 (Millisec. -> Sec.)
512.000 : 60 = 8533,3 (Sec. -> Min.)
8533,3 : 60 = 142,2 (Min. -> Hours.)
142,2 : 24 = 5,9 (Hours -> Days)
So there we have 6 days and May 13 (the day this video was leaked) + 6 days = May 19
- http://www.smashbrothersonline.com, you can download a song there that stops when the music in the NintendoON video stops. The site also shows a piece of a puzzle.

So you believe this yourself?
I don’t know what to believe. We’ll find out at the second E3 day. It could be coincidence, it could be pieces of the puzzle. Happy N-GAMING!

If there’s anything missing, please tell.

Edit1: More proof.
This Nintendogs picture is from the pressconference, they\'ve shown this picture. Look at the date on the picture.

As the last words were spoken today at the Nintendo Press Conference, only one question was left in our mind…. So where’s the ‘Revolution’? Sure, the actual console was shown in physical form and some minor details were released, but was there anything truly revolutionary about what was shared. In the opinion of many conference attendees, the idea of being able to download 20 years of Nintendo content sounded utterly amazing. However, this new feature in no way creates the paradigm shift in gameplay that Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, had claimed there would be upon the introduction of the Revolution.

So what does this mean and how does it relate to this article? Well, as it now stands, there have been multiple rumors and speculations about what it is that makes the revolution so revolutionary. In this feature article, some of these topics are going to be discussed and dissected. Why you ask?... There has to be a reason why Nintendo hasn’t blown the cover on their Revolution and we at NintendoNow are here to uncover that; Nintendo isn’t going to simply watch as Sony and Microsoft spill the beans - there has to be something more!

While much of what is going to be discussed from here on out is complete speculation (so don’t take it as fact), some of it is just completely unexplainable! So let’s get down to business…

About two weeks ago, a blog appeared on brokensaints.com that was meant to be a speculative posting about what Brooke Burgess, an industry insider, felt would be included in the Nintendo Revolution. Our forums began discussing this blog and many were convinced that what he said was true. It wasn’t until a few days later when a person on the blog going by the name of Aries, a man claiming to be a former Nintendo Employee, began posting everything he knew. At this point, the blog exploded with excited Nintendo fans hoping and dreaming that all of what Aires said would become fact.

Some guy claims to be a former Nintendo Employee and everyone believes him...but doesn’t it seem odd that his credibility went undisputed? Well, it actually was. In fact, Matt Casamassina of cube.ign.com had a lot to say about why he felt Aries was completely bogus. He claimed that nobody but people as high up in the Nintendo company rank as Reggie himself could have access to information such as what Aries provided. Nonetheless, GameSpot had a quite different take on what was said. In their conclusion to one of their rumor related assessments, it was said that only E3 could let us know for sure; they weren’t even able to disprove anything that Aries said. The more interesting part about GameSpot’s article, however, is that it linked to our forums here at NintendoNow (link shown above). Many people were going to the actual Broken Saints blog to see Aries’ prophecies, but somehow, NintendoNow truly put it on the map and GameSpot noticed this.

Do I smell a Nintendo/IGN conspiracy? IGN/GameSpy did just become Nintendo’s online provider just days ago. Could this mean Matt was doing a little cover-up, or just playing along in an elaborate scheme of elusive Nintendo advertising?

And here’s where it gets interesting!

Excerpts from actual Aries posts:

“Another thing I forgot to mention was on the backward compatibility;
apparently the Nintendo’s new console will be able to play the games
from past consoles such as GC, N64, SNES, and yes NES. I believe this
feature shall intrigue many people out there and could possibly lead to
what I call “New Classics” so look forward to that. For now I have to
seriously catch some shut eye E3 will be here soon enough.” -Aries

Is this not EXACTLY what was talked about today in Nintendo’s Press Conference? How could some random individual know about Nintendo’s 20 year content plan for backwards compatibility 2 weeks prior to the actual Nintendo Conference?

This wasn’t the only piece of information Aries stated would happen and actually did. For one, he got the wireless controllers, Super Smash Revolution Online, and more. He even mentioned Square-Enix and their strong liking of what Nintendo had in store for us in the near future, and a little over a week later, a quote from Youichi Wada, president of Square-Enix said this: (The original article can be found here)

“It gives the image of taking the real world seamlessly into the virtual world," he said. "the means of building a community will be completely different, and support and services will also change." -Wada

"What increased our interest further, is that the next step is already being prepared for Revolution. [Nintendo\'s networking plan is] not just a portable, not just a console -- it\'s exactly what we wanted in that it\'s the birth of a completely new platform." -Wada

 "From here on, we\'ll have to challenge ourselves with content in response to what Nintendo offers. We would like to give strong support." –Wada

Again, an Aries Prediction came true…but here is what is most intriguing:

“I’m not going to give out the secret. It’s going to be very fun; wait
until E3. Nintendo is going to roll out a trojan horse: something that
looks innocent and weak and them bam, it will be unveiled. Just don’t
make up your mind on the first day of E3.

My credibility will be proven on May 19th. I have already given you a
hint about what will happen in the next few weeks. Pay close attention
to some of the Nintendo related stories that will begin to pop up. So
far, many have already been reported. Pay attention. And on the 19th,
don’t automatically try to write me off. There is a big suprise in
store for everyone. I’ve said that 100 times, but I can’t stress it
enough.” -Aries

What does this mean? If you believe that Aries is telling the truth, then it means we’ve got much more to be excited about coming up on the 19th.

Not satisfied yet, NintendoNow did a little more searching and one of our Execs here at E-mpire created a thread about his conspiracy theories. He had this to say:

“I mean, not to get too much hopes up or anything, but just about EVERYTHING the real Aries was claiming, has come true up to this point. Ok, there were some things that didn’t fit in exactly, but hey…don’t forget he only worked for Nintendo till 2004 (IF in fact he did). Even the disappointment right now was predicted by him. He also mentioned the prank Nintendo would pull on us this E3 and that we’d all get punk’d just like in the movie “The Game”.

But that’s not all of it. Right before the press conference, there were four short clips on the Nintendo.com website which would be activated when trying to click on something. It showed some people in discussion on how they would fill in their E3 showing. So they got to talk about the press conference on tuesday and some party on wednesday, and then they still got something planned for thursday and friday which they wouldn’t elaborate about, saying we “have to wait”. One of the clips also showed Reggie saying: “don’t make me do it! I’ll take your name.” and the last one showing a frowning WTF?!-like face.” –Mach (E-mpire Exec)

So wait. Now Nintendo themselves are doing some crazy stuff? It would seem so, apparently.

Nintendo has said themselves many times now that they would be showcasing something about Mario 128. Have they yet?... NO!

And now, a short clip is posted on the main Nintendo website claiming there to be something more to come on Thursday and Friday (19th anyone), but it’s suddenly taken down? Seems fishy if you ask me.

There’s even more, though! Look on the Nintendo main website and on the front page you will see an image with a sign including, in bold letters, “Nintendo Now”. The image doesn’t link to anything (as they wouldn’t technically be able to link to us) and has no explanation. This makes us here at NintendoNow quite intrigued and puzzled to be honest. Is Nintendo trying to pull an advertisement campaign akin to recent viral campaigns? Are they trying to direct their readers to our forums because of our putting the Aries issue on the map?

While the Aries and Nintendo main site rumors are interesting, everyone is talking about the latest Revolution Mock-Up Video. (What\'s funny is that IGN was the only main site to host it... coincidence?)

Initially, many people were astounded by the professionalism that went in to creating such an amazing video; the huge Mario Castle created out of thousands of tiny Mario castles alone was a technical feat only a skilled professional could pull off. Eventually, however, it was brushed off as a fake and merely a cool watch for Nintendo fans to hopelessly ponder. But is there more to the video than most people think?

Just this last week, Nintendo of America\'s vice president of corporate affairs, Perrin Kaplan released a few details before the actual E3 conference stating that the console would be “very, very sleek.” While this may be a coincidence, does it not seem odd that in this Mock-Up video appears the words “the most sleek”?

Today at the Nintendo Press Conference was something even more astonishing. Reggie Fils-Aime mentioned multiple times that we all need to think with our “Right Brain”. A comment such as this isn’t very common, but for some reason also appears in the video as the name of the headset: “The Brain”.

Does this mean that the video may be a part of a possible elaborate marketing plan? Who knows…we’ll just have to wait!

While I must reiterate the fact that all of the previous comments are based on speculation, one can only wonder how all of these tidbits of information seem to come together quite comprehensively. Only time will tell the truth, but be rest assured that NintendoNow will be sticking around the Nintendo booth quite religiously come this Thursday.

If this was all some elaborate viral marketing scheme by Nintendo then I will have to dust off my official Big-N fanboy card.

well, Ubisoft kept lotsa SplinterCell fans occupied with http://www.littlechiqita.com

Some ingame SC 3 demo characters mention this girl chiqita and then there was all of a sudden that website with vague hints....

[Jumpman]

cliff notes plz

Cliff Notes: Miyamato likes to lure lil boys in the back of his windowless Astro van.

If this is some elaborate marketing scheme and that Rev design is fake I think it\'s pretty neat.  Not something Nintendo would normally do.

...And... it\'s the 20th.

-Dan

bah probably they are trying to make us thing that there is nothing hence the rojan horse

Rumor is that the Revolution is far from done, and it won\'t be shown until close to year\'s end.