You get a lot of great interviews out of events like GDC, but this one takes the cake. Nintendo's Vice President of Corporate Affairs is supposedly being interviewed by Matt Casamassina of IGN, but she basically spends the entire interview shutting him down with scathing condescension. Probably her most pricelessly cold - and interesting - response comes about when Casamassina tries to ask her about certain M-rated titles not selling well on Wii.
"Yes, I don't know what the last mature title that placed top 10 on NPD on the Nintendo platform [was]. Nothing comes to mind on that one," [Kaigler] says. "But I'm not going to make an argument for why certain M-rated games, as you say, don't achieve a certain amount of momentum on the Nintendo platform. We're broader than that. And that's what our contribution to this industry is. We are making sure that we make games for a broad consumer platform from age five to 95 and that really has worked well for us."
Basically: M-rated games not selling on Wii isn't a problem for Nintendo so long as lots of other types of games are selling. This makes it clear that Nintendo has no particular interest in making sure M-rated games thrive on the console and doesn't believe they're important to the future success of Wii. So if you ran out and bought MadWorld a few weeks back, great-- but Nintendo doesn't much care if you didn't.
