Nintendo’s Perrin Kaplan, who’s leaving the company in a few months, said in an interview with Advertising Age that gamers were bored before the Wii arrived.

“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.”

I didn’t know that I was bored with video games, or maybe I had not realized it yet, as Nintendo says. What about all those gamers who don’t have a Wii, are they still bored playing those boring games such as Halo 3, Gears of War, Supreme Commander, Motorstorm, Half Life 2, Bioshock and all those other games? I bet you they’re not. And I bet you that comments like these are exactly the reason Nintendo fired Perrin Kaplan.