Satoru Shibata, the president of Nintendo Europe, has revealed that he turned his wife from a prospective iPad buyer to a fan of the Wii U GamePad. Shibata said that until recently his wife refused to try out the Wii U GamePad for unspecified reasons. Instead, she really wanted an iPad or a similar tablet device, but these were sold out. So Shibata casually asked his wife to try out browsing the web with the GamePad and she now appears to be a convert.
“Until recently, my wife did not want to try out the GamePad. But there has been a change lately and she began using the Internet browser on the GamePad. Actually, we went to buy a certain tablet one weekend, but what we wanted was sold out everywhere, so we gave up on getting one. Back home, I said, “Why don’t we try using the GamePad instead?”. I let my wife manoeuvre the GamePad and because she picked it up so effortlessly, I ended up having to watch Nintendo Direct on December 5th on the TV in our living room with her.”
the power of nintendo is great!
Nahh screw Nintendp MLP FTW lol equis de qeujsn a ver yaoir yay
Don’t make me love and tolerate the shit out of you…
Both of those things are awesome xD
Please sir, refrain from speaking to bronies. They are wild and uneducated.
Proclaimed the user who’s using the same email address as the one i replied to.
lol! Basically Shibata hit his wife and stole her Ipad , and now she’s using the wiiu…..
That doesnt surprise me in the least maybe a bondage night make her change her mind.
Bronies my best sir, are fans of a show. Not a race, not a species, not even a mental decease.
Aelous Please Shut Your Mouth,not all of us bronies are that way,it’s just mainly the cloppers whom are hooked on the porn from the MLP Series.
now we know who you really are.
I resent that.
I can’t believe that anybody would have to be “converted” from an iPad. What’s so great about all of these gizmos with an i at the beginning of the words? I
ll NEVER care about them. Especially not as much as I love Nintendo.
Oh, and it’s GREAT to be first!
Or should I say, great to be second. I’ve been beat.
fakku dolan pls cum lol hello hen plus corbata if u kno what i mean BRONIES UNITED CAN RULE TEH WORLDS GO PINKIE GO PIE GO GO GO GO GO YAOI
Go to hell, and bring your stupid show with you.
No u
lies!
Lmao! This proves people shouldn’t judge things before trying.
She didn’t want to try ? Why !?
Because Nintendo sucks.
So, why are you here exactly?
Because many of us live in a free country that allows us to do what we want, not sure about your country though.
yet you are the same fool who try to say “you are wrong” and all that bullshit,
i know ignorant at its best.
Stop defending Aeolus, he has no real reason to be here besides trolling.
How stupid, she should throw that gimmicky gamepad at him.
Finished school early i see.
Shut up dragon, go home and play some kiddy nintendo.
*shrug* ok, i will
Someone’s getting mad without his juice box…..
Hey, Aeolus, did the sun solar flares at your house first before anyone else?
Shut up. You nintendofags also believe in fairy tales?
You seem angerier than usual. You always point out facts for your reasonening and your opinions, but now, you’re just throwing insults…strange..
he must be on he’s period
lol it could be
must be on he’s period
Why do you come on here just to hate? Do you have no life? Or are you just tsundere for Nintendo and buy their products while keeping up your public image? Here’s a suggestion, ho about you shut up, get your PS3/Xbox 360/PC or whatever you enjoy, and LEAVE with GUSTO. You rip on Nintendo and not expect a Nintendofag to hate on you? Whats the point!? Get a life. Hate from a Nintendofag. P.S: Gamepad > Kinect, PS Move and anything Sony and Microsoft try to muster in response to it.
how*
lol umad
I have an iPad…it’s called an iPhone, and it does everything an iPad can, and more, and half the price.
The ipad was a result of a fat person sitting on an iphone. XD jk
Was actually the result of Apple putting all the money, love letters and barrels of semen they got from consumers and putting them on top of iPhones.
How disgusting, shut up. How old are you, 10?
Well i don’t know any 10 year olds that know what semen is, or how overrated Apple are, so either you’re the first one, or you’re a shitty father
I hope you know that 10 year olds are pretty smart.And now you are starting to act like Von Schroeder,now you just insult,harass,and douche.
*half the price if you’re willing to pay $50+ a month on a cellphone plan with a 2 year contract.
It’s 30.
Which i do, so you’re point being?
My point is, initially it’s half the price, but you end up paying for a cellphone plan for however long your contract is. If you don’t have an iPhone with a contract, then you pay 700 for an unlocked iPhone, which is about twice the price of an iPad.
Well i’d be paying for a mobile/cellphone contract even if i didn’t have an iPhone, because i need a phone, so yes, it is cheaper, and it still does more than an iPad.
iPad are just for kids who cant afford iPhone contracts and people who suck off the Apple brand logo.
Anyone who has both a contracted iPhone and an iPad is a moron.
Wow, thanks man. I never knew I was poor for getting an iPad >_> seeing as it was one of the only decent tablets on the market (Apart from Nexus 10, but they were sold out)
I just dont see the point in an iPad at all. Nexus 7 or 10 is the good tablet, and iPad just does what an iPhone does, but less.
Also, if i pay about £35 for a iPhone contract, and a usual phone contract is about £20-25, i hardly paying £700 for an iPhone.
Welcome aboard, Mrs. Shibata.
Nintendo powah, unlimited powah,
I find it strange that the wife of european Nintendo president refused to use a Nintendo product.
But it is a cute story
That made me chuckle xD just imagine the CEO of Nintendo Europe and his wife doesn’t like gaming haha
She should have refused again. Nintendo products sucks so hard, not even the wife of the president wanted to use it.
Erm… Are you the real aeolus or just one of these arses who throw shit over his name by pretending to be him and make stupid comments that are unneccesairy and mean?
The Aeolus I respect is the one supporting his opinions with facts and who never ever type anything completly unneccesairy and whose only goal is to enlighten his fellow human brothers with the information he knows that they do not know.
In short, a man who tries to open up the mind of people, a man who goes against the stream… That is not the kind of man who would write a stupid comment like this and some of the comments above.
You mean half facts. Cause what he shows is industry opinions hardly facts.
You get my point, he has more style than this.
Yeah, I get your point too.
The REAL Aeolus is actually one of the few people that make sense on this website, to be completely honest.
Yeah, but he’s still a complete dick about it
Then she used it and liked it. ok
what else matters honestly.
lol, Thanx Aeolus, U always manage to put a Smile on my face. :D
Saying the wii u gamepad can wipe all aspirations of getting an iPad is just lol. When it comes down to it the iPad does everything better, Except play games. But who gets an iPad for games? I mean really?
And seeing as she isn’t a gamer (otherwise why tell your husband that you won’t play His companies new game system) she obviously isn’t getting an iPad for games.
Keep sucking Job$ dick, fanboy.
Umm, Steve Jobs is dead….and he is right. The Ipad DOES do the multimedia aspect better then the WiiU (I have both). The WiiU’s internet browser….sucks to be honest. Not to mention you can only take it 30 feet from the console itself. Not to mention the Ipad has a bunch of apps and utilities that the WiiU doesn’t have. And….I don’t see the problem with that. The WiiU was made for the games, not the multimedia, where as the Ipad was made for the multimedia and not the games. Now, I know a lot of people here are saying why should you have an Ipad if you have an Iphone (Which has nothing to do with the topic but whatever), and for the most part, you are right, you probably should only have one or the other. But, how’s that any different from the 3DS and the XL. You really aren’t supposed to have both, its just if people want something smaller or something larger. If his wife actually played with the Ipad before the WiiU, I’d think she’d go with the Ipad because she wants it for the multimedia, not the game
The iPad and the Wii U controller are different machines. The iPad has an established os, is way more versatile, and has much more content. You’re telling me she picked the wii u gamepad up, used the internet browser, and than decided the iPad wasnt for her? A middle aged woman xcited about reggie talking about shit that I, being a gamer for over two decades, don’t even care about? Lol.
Keep sucking Job$ dick, fanboy.
Fanboy? A little pressumptious.
Pretty presumptuous that just because a woman prefers the Wii U(which you don’t like the company of) to the Ipad,it’s laughable and bad.
Respectfully speaking, I will never understand why people visit websites that talk about products they don’t like, then want to bash everyone that does. Why would anyone waste their time? So sad!
I own a Wii U and have been supporting nintendo since 92. What’s the poit of this article?
I have since 87 your point????
Aeolus hows your mom doing?
The Wii-U is simply a beautiful device to use. I love it.
My gf bought the wii u over the iPad. She’s just upset Nintendo land isn’t online multiplayer idk wtf Nintendo was thinking on not making some attractions with online play
not all games need multi online for, that not what Nintendo land was about.
At this day and age, honestly, they do. There was NO reason for NSMBU or Ninty land not to have online other than laziness.
Pingback: Nintendo Europe President's Wife?
hi there i know were this is heading a dsi ipad with 2 screens
Pingback: Wii U GamePads Are Region Locked | My Nintendo News
Pingback: Wii U GamePads Are Region Locked | The N-Dub Nation Nintendo Site