... no, not you Scott but the general Nintendo buying public in general. Well, at least that's what it seems like with Nintendo's recent affront on the 'mainstream' gamers, courtesy of Wii Fit.
It's not good enough that we've already had a couple of years of Nintendo telling us that we're no cleverer than your average spit-dribbling council estate plebs - with the Brain Training series - now we're a bunch of fatties too.
This has just been hammered home after watching a new TV ad for Wii Fit, in which a whole family basically guffaw in absolute joy as they discover their whiter-than-white dad is not only overweight, according to his BMI, he's also got the body of a 58-year-old. The dad meanwhile, looks suitably horrified - like Dr. Kawashima's just popped on screen and told him he's a paedophile... of course, that conclusion can only be drawn after the dad has played the upcoming Fiddler Training on the Perv Station 720. It takes the phrase 'touch screen' to a whole new level.
Anyway, the point of all this late-night niggling is that it struck me that only Nintendo could get away with calling its fans fat and thick, without a great deal of fuss. It all just seems like the final nail in the coffin for those long-term Nintendo die hards that stuck with the company through the difficult N64 years and instead of a hearty pat on the back and a kind 'thank you' from Iwata, he's quite literally telling us to 'jog on'.
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