Nintendo Czar-President: TWITCH STREAMING AIN’T FUN. LOLokaybro

Why isn’t the Wii U getting Twitch’s streaming service? The one that zillions of people broadcast themselves on? The one that zillions of people log onto, just to see others playing games? If you buy the Shit Sandwich that is being sold by Nintendo’s Out of Touch Czar, it’s because it ain’t fun.

In an interview with Polygon, Reggie Fils-Aime—Nintendo of America President and CEO and noted Internet meme—talked about why the Wii U doesn’t have the capability to stream on Twitch. Personally, I’d have guessed it was because of hardware limitations of the Wii U, since it’s basically a last-gen machine with any extra power it does have going into streaming video to the GamePad.

According to Reggie, I’m wrong about whether or not the Wii U’s body is ready for Twitch streaming. It’s not a hardware limitation; it’s just that streaming gameplay on Twitch isn’t fun. I wish I was making this up or being hyperbolic, but he actually said those very words. Here are some direct quotes from Polygon:

We don’t think streaming 30 minutes of gameplay by itself is a lot of fun.

Your specific question of just purely streaming gameplay, what we’ve got to think through is, so what’s fun about that? From a consumer standpoint, what’s fun about it?

It just gets worse from there, too. Nintendo’s E3 streams have been completely bonkers and clocked in at tens of thousands of viewers at a time—not to mention that their Smash Bros. Invitational tournament stream got up to at least 175,000 concurrent viewers when I checked. If that should tell Reggie anything, it’s that whether or not he thinks it’s fun (I mean, I’m not even personally that interested in the feature), his audience sure does. [The Mary Sue]

Two things:

1) Twitch isn’t for me, but it is for a hell of a lot of people Dismissing them out of out of hand and telling them that what they’re enjoying isn’t fun doesn’t seem too well thought out.

2) I think a better approach would be for Nintendo to simply cop to the fact that Twitch streaming ain’t for what they’re aiming for on the Wii U. And dammit, that would be perfectly okay for me to hear. “It’s not part of what we’re doing.” Oh — okay.