I ususally like my quotation marks around... well... quotes.

Maybe I'm wrong -- and maybe the quote is out there somewhere to back it up -- but these sound like Edge's words, and not any PR person from Nintendo (even if NoE).

Truth to be told, avid gamers are geeks. I include myself to gaming geeks. Geek is not pejorative, not anymore at least. Nerd is pejorative though. He could have said hardcore gamers instead.

Call me crazy, but isn't a PR guy's job to represent the opinions of the company he works for?

I recognize that he might be misrepresenting the company, but if so, it's pretty idiotic since that's his job.  It's actually reminiscent of some bad Sony PR from around the time of the PS3's launch.

Way to shit on the guys that kept you afloat for the last two generations.

I know it's just PR, but they're starting to sound more and more like the Sony of old.

i wouldnt be surprised if that rep didnt even say those words and that Edge just put in some words using a thesaurus choosing the worst sounding words.

but then even if he did say it, what does it matter? take a good hard examination of yourselves. you know you're all geeks or otakus. all he would be doing is telling the truth.

It is interesting that "geeks and otaku" was the only part in quotes, so we really don't have a context for that.  I would be willing to bet that the rep thought he was speaking off the record, as well.

Even so, it's the geeks who are going to buy the most Virtual Console games, and they'd be willing to buy a storage accessory which would have its own insane profit margin.  So at best, this comment is shortsighted.

It' s almost like Nintendo is saying to its hardcore gamers to go consummate themselves.

Not smart. GIVE people the storage. Even if you don't want to, don't insult them at least, Those are the people who bought your consoles last few gens, and those are the people who bought Wiiware and VC.

Link or scan, or it didn't happen.

BTW, why no full quote? We should have the full context of the comment at least. 

I'm with Nintendo on this one. The only people I know that are complaining about storage are gaming mags/sites. The many people I know personally that own a Wii don't really give a damn, myself included.

As has been mentioned many times, Nintendo keeps their PR guys pretty far out of the loop, and doesn't really trust anyone outside their Japanese branch to make decisions.  NoE is considered largely incompetent as well for obvious reasons.  My post was in direct response to his title saying Nintendo says this, not a Nintendo of Europe PR rep.  

And yes, obviously it's bad PR.  Most of Sony's worst quotes from Kaz and Phil though... which is what made them so awful.   Every company has a few morons who don't know how to shut up, but if it's your management then there's a problem.