Wii Fit.

This was Nintendos big thing at E3 this year. A goddamn step. A step that senses your balance. I honestly didn't think it was possible for Ninty to invent a way to make people look even more like special ed kids holding sparklers while playing games, but I stand corrected. This makes flailing around with a wiimote in hand look dignified.

You would think, since the Wii is still in its first year of life, that Nintendo would try to develop and experiment with the far from perfect mechanics of the wiimote some more, since it is the consoles' bread and butter. This electronic exercise step is just some gimmicky tool Nintendo is using to draw more "non-gamers" towards the Wii, an act that is quickly alienating people who actually enjoy playing "games." And by games, I mean stuff that transports you away from the real world. Things that actually require some skill to play. Things that you can sit down and play for hours on end, alone or with friends. Not something that you lean from side to side on, all the while looking like a goon. And do people seriously expect to use this thing for more than 15 minutes at a time? Call me crazy, but after a few rousing rounds of "virtual hula hoop", I think I would call it quits and re-evaluate what I was spending my free time on.

Am I alone in this? What kind of games could they expect to create for this? All I could come up with was a surfing or skateboarding game. Other than that, its just going to be the same Wii Play crap that becomes lame after the first few times you play it. Maybe I'm just jaded, like that Aerosmith song. Maybe I'm just angry that Super Mario Galaxy and SSBB are taking so damn long to be released. All I know is this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYBmAVuBns) portrays exactly how I feel. Whats up Nintendo?

I couldn't get the video to embed. Just copy and paste, unless clicking the mouse a few extra times makes you angry.