| Score one for the little guy. The Nintendo Wii is | | | | move" buttons that would come naturally with |
| what you can consider the David while coming out | | | | lots of practice. With friendlier game play, it led to |
| ahead against the two Goliaths of the video | | | | a more even playing field amongst a larger |
| gaming industry otherwise known as Microsoft | | | | audience. And of course, it's always more fun to |
| Xbox and the Sony PlayStation 3. Don't get me | | | | play with more people. |
| wrong, Nintendo has been in the gaming business | | | | The Nintendo Wii has also utilized its motion |
| a long time. However, rather competing with its | | | | detection capabilities to the fullest by offering Wii |
| rivals for the best graphics, the most functionality | | | | Sports and Wii Fitness games. No longer can video |
| and the biggest hard drive capacity, it decided to | | | | gamers 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 new | | | | craze by producing fitness games for the Wii so |
| craze in motion detection video games. Heck, you | | | | you 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 add | | | | your own home and it's not as boring as being on |
| full body movement into your virtual world game | | | | the elliptical in front of the TV. You actually have |
| play. This is what the Nintendo Wii has added to | | | | fun while playing video games and exercising. |
| the gaming world: realism when playing games. No | | | | As you can see, the Wii was not designed with |
| longer is it only your thumbs that are getting the | | | | the best graphics or the best functionality in mind. |
| workout by pressing buttons on the input game | | | | In this case, eye candy did not win the battle of |
| controller. You can now use body movements to | | | | the 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 casual | | | | transferring body movements into digital signals, |
| and non-gamers giving the Wii a try. Before, this | | | | the Wii has brought the casual gamers into the |
| segment of the population was intimidated by | | | | fold. It just shows that there is a gamer in all of |
| hard core gamers familiar with pressing "special | | | | us if you can make it accessible to everybody. |