Nintendo exec to customers: "NERRRRRRRRRDS!"

At a recent European Nintendo event, voice dripping with contempt, Laurent Fischer — Nintendo's managing director of marketing — remarked that only " geeks and otaku" would want more storage capacity on their Wiis. On his forehead, a lone artery madly twitched, constraining itself against the taut, purple skin of his apoplectic face. Then he snapped. "NERRRDS! NERRRRDS!" Fischer insanely screamed as he leapt over the podium, casting himself into an albino herd of wheezing, sunken-chested gaming journalists who fell — one by one — before the vicious onslaught of wedgies, indian burns and purple nurples.

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[#1 posted by Anonyman , June 13, 2008 10:27 AM]

Fischer then proceeded to draw a magnum revolver and pump round after round into his own foot. Authorities were fortunately able to wrestle the weapon from him before he was able to completely destroy the limb.

[#2 posted by Agent 86 , June 15, 2008 5:32 PM]

What, I just heard that he knows his customer demographic wants more storage.

[#3 posted by Halloween Jack , June 16, 2008 12:41 PM]

He refused to release the rubber hand from his clenched jaws, insisting, "Bud thith ith the hand thad feedth me!"