Why would video game maker Nintendo be holding a press conference at the LA Auto show in Los Angeles? Why would a video game company reserve the same hall Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Jeep, Kia, Lincoln, Mitsubishi, Nissan, and Ram are using at the big car show?
Officially, Nintendo has no comment, saying only that "we’ll have more info coming soon, but nothing more to announce at this time," but that won't stop anyone from speculating. Nintendo has no other presence at the show -- they don't have a booth or anything like that -- leading to the suggestion that the Big N is planning some kind of collaboration with a big car maker.
While this isn't a lot of information to go on, it would not be at all surprising if Nintendo plans to offer a Wii-U as standard, in-car entertainment in some make of auto. My guess would be a car-makers' line of family-friendly mini-van/SUVs will soon have Nintendo as an option... either that or steering wheels in Ram trucks will be replaced with surplus Wii-motes.
The Nintendo talk is scheduled for November 17, so we'll definitely know what it's about by then, but hopefully, we'll hear something before that.
Source: Motorworld Hype
(Thanks to reader andyzs2k for the tip!)
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Super Nintendo
im guessing promotion of mk7
Zzanzabar
"...either that or steering wheels in Ram trucks will be replaced with surplus Wii-motes."
ROTF.
Velocity562
Please fix the link to the source. Its not working.
Wart131
Great! Now that I can shoot shells and drop bananas, I won't have to worry about slow people or people tailgating me! Thanks Nintendo! :D
bigmonstefan
maybe a mario collaboration with fiat. their italian right? I could see that little car looking a bit like mario ore a goomba or one of those koopa turtle things. And since Dodge is with them, how bout a bowser charger? Or a Falcon Challenger? or a virtual boy avenger since they're both failures.
teac77
They want to promote Mario Kart.7.
Taiki420
Man, if Nintendo was linking up with Honda for some crazy reason I think I'd explode.
jjfan1
not sure how to feel about this...so guess we'll have to wait and see
macross2012
1 of 2 things is happening..
1. Nintendo is looking for backers for money for Nintendo with nintendo's bad quater.. or...
2. They are trying to get car companies to adapt to the new WiiU controller :O
Both reasons would be fail
Hellfire87
Just yet another bad choice in a LONG line of Bad decisions
orangecrow
Maybe it's for the major car companies to intall turtle shells. Miyamoto you silly guy you.
DPsx72
Weird. I could see Sony and GT5, but nobody else had that kind of realistic driving game. Let's see what they do.
bgrz
coz WiiU needs lots of space
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