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The previous generation had some outstanding games; God of War I and II, Resident Evil 4, Halo 2 and GTA: San Andreas, but no matter how much fun we thought we were having, apparently we were bored out of our brains.

According to the soon-to-be-former Marketing VP of Nintendo of America, Perrin Kaplin who spoke to Ad Age, "A major insight that Nintendo had early on was that they saw that gamers were getting bored, even though they didn't know it yet."

Understood that, from a marketing stand-point, Perrin's main aim is to sell the product. So, no matter how much fun you were having, you were bored all along before the Wii, people!

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magickstar says:  

BTW - who chose that picture??? Is that what i'm sposed to look like?

5 hours ago Brisbane, Australia

magickstar says:  

I've never been classified as a gamer? I guess gamer means anyone who plays any kind of electronic game and enjoys it? Thats probably half the population.
Still i too was bored with the lack of variety in games and consoles before the wii. Hmmm Playstation... Xbox... Playstation... Xbox... so much variety?
Whats that? It plays dvds?!!! How riveting...
Anyway i love the wii! Still i agree there is too small a variety in games at the moment. I'm sure it will pick up soon.
Thats my opinion - sorry for the rant.

5 hours ago Brisbane, Australia

PePPeR101 says:  

wii has brought me back to life =P

10 hours ago H-Town baby!

MarleH says:  

Well still bored with the Wii at the moment. No games worth playing at the moment. Just wasiting for Metroid and so on.

11 hours ago Melbourne, Victoria

Drhobo says:  

jac33au said: I was bored. It was all the same thing packaged in different shiny covers with different names



nicely put

11 hours ago Michigan, USA

Harlster says:  

I'm so bored with the gamecube and my N64, because my N64 is mostly for Multiplayer and my gamecube isn't fun anymore.

21 hours ago Melbourne [city of stuff, wooo!]

ICC_06 says:  

People would get bored with games if they were the same things with better graphics for the new generation so its a good thing nintendo are doing something different with the wii, but this woman does say stupid things

22 hours ago South Australia

syfox133 says:  

Hm, cool.

22 hours ago In the corner of your eye

kennansoft says:  

This is so true. I played so many games but after about 5 hours of play they are exactly the same thing again and again but I'll play for another 50 hours because of about 10 5 minute story line clips

23 hours ago Ballarat, Victoria

jotendo says:  

knuckles60 said: even with the wii, im still kinda bored, but i guess thats because the games r still expensive for my expenses and the fact i only own two wii games including wii sports making three



BLASPHEMY!!!!?

1 days ago oh god where am i?! *cry*

K-Man says:  

Because then we wouldn't have anything else to do

1 days ago California, U.S

Version2 says:  

I wasn't having fun while playing video games, huh, never knew that. I might of also been bored while watching my favourite videos on YouTube or when I was at the movies. How stupid is that, if we were bored playing them, why would we play them?

1 days ago In a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait shop

Omi says:  

Funny, I could of sworn I had been having fun this whole time...

Oh, silly me! I didn't know I was bored yet. Well, that explains it! :\

1 days ago Tassie

Quin says:  

jac33au said: I was bored. It was all the same thing packaged in different shiny covers with different names



Agreed and ditto.

1 days ago Sunshine Coast, Queensland

K-Man says:  

Hmm never knew that. Well i never noticed that since i wasn't so obsessed with videogames back then, but then it all changes when i finally got my Wii (and PS3 )

BTW how does an admin have -52 kudos?!

1 days ago California, U.S

Slater says:  

Well thats awkward.

...

*Cricket*

1 days ago Palo Alto, California

Gaetano says:  

Slater said: LOL @ this... glad he told me. I would never have known!



Perrin is a girl hehe

1 days ago Melbourne

Slater says:  

LOL @ this... glad he told me. I would never have known!

1 days ago Palo Alto, California

knuckles60 says:  

even with the wii, im still kinda bored, but i guess thats because the games r still expensive for my expenses and the fact i only own two wii games including wii sports making three

1 days ago Detroit, MI

jac33au says:  

I was bored. It was all the same thing packaged in different shiny covers with different names

1 days ago Hervey Bay, Queensland

 
 

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