Nintendo’s Wii Fit fits a new age

July 22nd, 2007 by tim finin

I noticed a slashdot post on The New Entertainment: Where Wii Fits In, an essay on Angry-Gamer.net discussing Nintendo’s new direction. It’s worth reading.

“Games like Wii Sports and Brain Age have revived classic arcade gaming. These are games intended for social groups of everyday people enticed by the experience, not for a rabid base of online strangers who just want to gank each other. The games have no first acts to set up a long storyline, no cutscenes, and no mythology or panoply of characters to wrap your head around. The only tale they tell is that of the player’s performance. The experience itself is a series of quick and simple challenges, easily attempted by anyone. Remember when Super Mario Bros. came out, and it seemed like everyone and his grandma was playing it? Well, guess what? It’s happening all over again. This is what Nintendo does. This is what it has always done. Complaining that this new phase of their plan has stopped us from sitting on our asses and twiddling our thumbs while we send our conscious minds into some fantasy land seems a little immature, and overly conservative.”

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