EDIT: I remembered what brought my post on, KillerGremlin's post.
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Originally Posted by KillerGremlin
Honest to god, if I'm going to be moving as much as the people in Nintendo's videos, I might as well just get off my ass and do real sports. I'm not bad at athletics.
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After seeing Miyamoto, Reggie, Iwata, and that lucky bastard play tennis together, and after seeing some of the ads for the other sports in that game like baseball, I can see Nintendo's strategy to appealing to nongamers working.
I mean, I can imagine myself pulling out the Wii to the living room, instead of keeping it regulated to the backroom where all of my normal family members can ignore it. And I can imagine myself pulling out that tennis game in front of my family and swinging the racket wildly around. I know everyone in my family would be intrigued, and everyone in my family would want to try a few swings of the wii racket.
How do I know this? Because I've been to arcades with some of my family, family who doesn't even know who makes the Playstation, let alone what an XBox is. But they love playing anything that simulates reality, or anything that is physical or just about anything that doesn't have a whole lot of buttons on it.
I've heard a couple of you on these boards say, "I just have no interest in swinging a controller around." Yeah, well, clearly everyone else in the world has no interest in sitting around pressing 20 buttons playing an interactive movie. I think most people out there, however, do have an interest in doing something physical, and something fun. And I think Nintendo has made something that does both, and well.