Nintendo Says Anti-Social Teens Were Old Target

So apparently Edge Magazine covered a convention in London in which a Nintendo representative gave a speech about the company’s future. Here are the harsh words that person had to say about gamers.

…gaming has traditionally been perceivedas ‘an addiction that removes the player from reality’. A picture of a long haired nerd, screaming as he gripped a control pad, appeared on the projection screen, the surrounding space soon populated by the phrases ‘glazed over’, ‘isolated’ and other negative terminology.

Rather than debunk such perceptions, Nintendo simply suggested it was courting a different audience, and the company would soon come to stand for ’self development, health, beauty and fitness’.

…Nintendo’s Touch! Generation software, which unlike traditional gamng, doesn’t “replace your life - it connects with it”.

Wow, you’ve been taking our money for years but go ahead and rag on us with some seriously overblown stereotypes.

Via NeoGAF