The Wii is for the family, not just the kids. By Jack Davis
I remember coming back one day a couple of summers ago, and finding that on her weekly food shop my mum had brought herself a Wii. Needless to say, I was very surprised, especially as my mum was so keen to set the Wii up and play it. After having it for a while now though, it seems that my mum buying a Wii is not as surprising as I had first thought.
With the price that it is for, the free Wii Sports games you get with it and the variety of games that range from fitness games, to first person shooters and of course a selection of Supper Mario games, there is a very wide spectrum of people that the Wii appeals too; including people like my mother.
Nintendo Wii offers a huge variety of activity games which provide the user with an exercise programme beneficial for children as well as adults. The gaming console comes with the Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort; the games that can make an ordinary living room an outdoor tennis court, a vast golf course or even a wild boxing ring. Thus, Nintendo Wii forever thwarted parental attempts to get their to-the-telly-glued offspring out of the house in order to keep them active.
There has even been a number of occasions when I have gone to a friend’s family event the same has happened. The great thing is that a lot of the games get you moving about and doing something; which is surprisingly fun! Admittedly, half the time you look quite silly, but in a party situation everyone has a go and so everyone feels equally silly, and you all end up in hysterics!
Retiring its kid-friendly Game Boy (who didn’t have one? Show of hands?) in favour of the clean-shaven, polite, fashionable ‘DS’ was an inspired move. The ‘Brain Training’ or ‘Sudoku’ games, logic puzzles and others cornered a thoroughly neglected market, not just in games, but in electronics as well. The ad campaigns featured professional people in suits and ties playing games at bus stops and train stations. In short, it may not be ‘cool’ in gamer terms, but it IS big and it IS clever. Nintendo fought their dated image with a truly 21st century battle plan. The Wii is the next phase in this onslaught. It lacks the peer-to-peer features of X-Box, the graphics or playability of the Playstation, but what it does provide is competitive, easy-to pick-up and put-down arcade-style games that the whole family can enjoy. And it has a wireless controller that mimics whatever you do in real life, right there on the screen in front of you. The whole family is now covered, fitness programs for Mum, bowling for Dad and, as always, Mario for the kids.
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