Nintendo Would Like to Remind You That the Wii Is for Horrible People
Yesterday I disparaged Nintendo’s 3DS and it’s Nintendo-business-as-usual line-up. Some Nintendo fans totally lost their shit, because for some reason, people still feel the need to defend videogame consoles like they’re family members. I don’t understand why consoles garner that kind of emotional attachment, and I don’t care. That said:
If you can watch the above commercial for Wii Party and not loathe Nintendo, you have a problem. If that video had been nothing but Shigeru Miyamoto punching a baby for 60 seconds, I don’t think I could be any more appalled or enraged.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.