Before I continue with my Nintendo butt-kissing… Let me go on record as saying that I’ve already experienced my first Wii scar, many month ago. A bleeding knuckle that never quite healed right, and a broken ceiling fan are all that remain. That’s all I’m going to say about that… for now.
I recently watched another speech from Nintendo’s own Satoru Iwata, who was detailing various financial reports. One thing that he had reiterated in his speech got me thinking. He mentioned how Nintendo continually polls for seeming arbitrary information, like the “acceptance” of video games. He talked about the lack of understanding that a large population of Japanese (and Americans) have on the subject of video games. I definitely got the sense that there were was a group of people who still believed that, “TV rots your brains” and “video games are a gateway to crack cocaine”.