Wii The People

The first game console ever owned was a Nintendo Entertainment System and was awesome. Well at the time it was awesome. We had Duck Hunt, Super Mario, and a bunch of the classics. From then on my family was a Nintendo family, no Intellivision, no Sega Genesis, no Dreamcast. We had a NES, a Super Nintendo, two Game boys, and a Nintendo 64. Then I got to high school, discovered girls, and forgot about video games. In college I got a PS2 for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 05 and the Grand Theft Auto series.
Now I’m back with Nintendo in a big way. My wife and I just bought a Wii with the Wii Sports game. One of the things that impressed me the most was the accuracy of the controls. We’ve all pulled the orange trigger of a Nintendo pistol thinking we hit the ducks just to have that condescending little mutt pop up and mock us. I have yet to have a moment like that with the Wii. Nintendo has obviously spent a lot of time and money to nail the motion sensing controls and it paid off big time. My wife and went to three stores before we found the Wii in stock at a Meijer; there was one still on the shelf when we left. The Wii fit is sold out; even at online retailers it is back ordered! I looked it up and found out that Nintendo has sold over 50 million Wii consoles!
Video games have always been the antithesis of exercise. The Wii changes that; it is fun and gets you off the couch, a good thing for just about anyone. The Wii fit even has a personal trainer! If technology can make video games healthy it can just about do anything. So what will technology change next?