Video games are one of many pass times that are typically take place in teenager’s bedrooms. When they’re around ten years old, you buy them a games console and then they disappear for hours on end, emerging from time to time for toilet breaks and to stock up on fizzy drinks and snacks.
However, the release of the Nintendo Wii console changed all that. The Wii was a console for the living room rather than the bedroom. There are a variety of reasons for this.
In the first place, the Wii’s motion sensitive controller meant that the way games were played was much more intuitive. Games were considerably easier to learn, no need to remember that button X is to run, button Y is to punch and button Z executes a back-flip. In fact, Wii games are so easy to play that even adults can learn them in a matter of minutes.
Also, as a result of the physical element of Wii games, there’s a little exercise involved. Not just Wii Fit – but virtually all of the Wii games involve a certain element of jumping around, much more so than the typical games found on other consoles. That needs a bit of space.
Somehow or other, for reasons which are difficult to pinpoint exactly, the Wii console and Wii games seem to have a more social element than has been previously seen with other console or PC games. You can “play the computer” if you want of course, but Wii games tend to be much more fun as part of a group of gamers.
It might be the fact that you have to prance about, wave your arms around and generally make yourself look a bit daft at times. Whatever it is, the Wii is very definitely a group activity.
As cheesy as it sounds, the Wii is genuinely great fun for kids of all ages. Wii games can be a social event, they can help you to exercise and lose weight and they are a lot of fun. Most important of all, the Wii has taken video games out of teenager’s bedrooms and planted them fairly and squarely in the family living room.
In fact, this might go some way to explaining the success when Nintendo recently “went to the dark side” and launched a black Wii console in Europe just before Christmas. It proved to be very popular with customers – possibly because the black colour matched the other devices in their living rooms. As yet, the black Nintendo Wii console has not been launched in America.
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