david.dakota Posted March 20, 2008 Posted March 20, 2008 The complete shambles that is David Gossen, former head of Nintendo of Europe is headed to Microsoft Interactive Entertainment. Why Microsoft have hired him is anyones guess - although, lets be fair, while at NOE he couldn't have done a better job at shrinking Nintendo's market share. Thats something that'll no doubt be on the resumé he passed to Microsoft. Its worth noting that Gossen left the employment of NOE in August 2004, and really isnt jumping ship as the linked story subtly suggests: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=185152
Mokong Posted March 20, 2008 Posted March 20, 2008 What exactly makes Gossen the expert at making a company look "mainstrem"? Did they even look at what happened to NoE while he was there? This could be the move that pushes Xbox down to the 3rd place of teh 3 home consoles
gaggle64 Posted March 20, 2008 Posted March 20, 2008 Is this David Goosen, the malfunctioning marketing droid who told 64 owners to look forward to a "great christmas" with Mario Party 3?
Guest Jordan Posted March 20, 2008 Posted March 20, 2008 Its already in 2nd... Hiring Gosen is like having a drunk irishman do your taxes... everything just fucks up.
Mokong Posted March 20, 2008 Posted March 20, 2008 Its already in 2nd... Hiring Gosen is like having a drunk irishman do your taxes... everything just fucks up. Hey now we don't have to go jumping on Sterotypes...... ..... oh wait i forgot we were talking about Gossen...yeah that will most likely frack their shit up:heh:
Helmsly Posted March 20, 2008 Posted March 20, 2008 Is this David Goosen, the malfunctioning marketing droid who told 64 owners to look forward to a "great christmas" with Mario Party 3? oh god yes, the very same man. Although I guess we can't blame him directly for that, it was his job to make anything Nintendo did sound fantastic...even if that means holding up Mario party 3 the same month grand theft Auto 3 is released and telling us N64 will dominate christmas.
Guest Maase Posted March 20, 2008 Posted March 20, 2008 Hey now we don't have to go jumping on Sterotypes...... LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL Priceless xD
Kurtle Squad Posted March 20, 2008 Posted March 20, 2008 All they have to do is get Ubisoft & EA to churn out "casual" games for them;)
darkjak Posted March 20, 2008 Posted March 20, 2008 I didn't really know of him at the time, but go-sen does ring a bell. It's curious that they chose this f**kup, considering his past. I live in Sweden, so there actually was a fair bit of marketing here, allthough I'm not sure whether it was NOE or Swedish Distributor Bergsala that were responsible. Either way, some of their adds were... odd. Like one with the transparent coloured N64's on a picture, and the slogan "Mums", which translates into "Yummy". Then there were the standard European posters with for example a tie fighter inside a glass box against a purple background, which non-gamers (which the posters were meant to inform of the Cube's launch) didn't understand. I mean, don't Microsoft realise by now that it's bad to take over stuff that Nintendo get rid of? It went crap when they bought Rare, it'll go worse with Gosen, since Gosen wasn't good in the first place.
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