How the Nintendo Wii Revolutionized the Gaming Industry

Score one for the little guy. The Nintendo Wii ismove" buttons that would come naturally with
what you can consider the David while coming outlots of practice. With friendlier game play, it led to
ahead against the two Goliaths of the videoa more even playing field amongst a larger
gaming industry otherwise known as Microsoftaudience. And of course, it's always more fun to
Xbox and the Sony PlayStation 3. Don't get meplay with more people.
wrong, Nintendo has been in the gaming businessThe Nintendo Wii has also utilized its motion
a long time. However, rather competing with itsdetection capabilities to the fullest by offering Wii
rivals for the best graphics, the most functionalitySports and Wii Fitness games. No longer can video
and the biggest hard drive capacity, it decided togamers be accused of being couch potatoes.
revolutionize how we play games instead.Fitness gurus are trying to capitalize on the Wii
You've probably heard, or read about the newcraze by producing fitness games for the Wii so
craze in motion detection video games. Heck, youyou don't need to go to the gym in order to
might have participated in these games yourself.work out. You can sweat it out in the comfort of
These games can be a lot of fun when you addyour own home and it's not as boring as being on
full body movement into your virtual world gamethe elliptical in front of the TV. You actually have
play. This is what the Nintendo Wii has added tofun while playing video games and exercising.
the gaming world: realism when playing games. NoAs you can see, the Wii was not designed with
longer is it only your thumbs that are getting thethe best graphics or the best functionality in mind.
workout by pressing buttons on the input gameIn this case, eye candy did not win the battle of
controller. You can now use body movements tothe game console. However, what the Wii was
control how your virtual game character moves.designed for, it does extremely well. By
This was a huge breakthrough that led to casualtransferring body movements into digital signals,
and non-gamers giving the Wii a try. Before, thisthe Wii has brought the casual gamers into the
segment of the population was intimidated byfold. It just shows that there is a gamer in all of
hard core gamers familiar with pressing "specialus if you can make it accessible to everybody.