According to one loudmouth with a radio show, the Wii needs to pull its products from store shelves until they make significant changes to their advertising. Instead of promoting family fun and active lifestyles, the Wii actually contributes to obesity and injures people, claims a new lawsuit.
Michael Torchia has decided to press a suit against Nintendo for the injuries that stupid people sustain by not knowing how to waggle an electric plastic stick properly. By pure coincidence, Torchia also hosts a fitness radio show called Shape Up America, and runs specialized programs for obese children. Not that I'd ever imply that he feels threatened by the success of Wii Fit or anything.
"Nintendo is contributing to the epidemic of obesity," claims the jealous concerned Torchia. "Young and old are putting away their gym clothes and shying away from going outdoors to play sports, because the addictive appeal to the Wii game products. Just as the tobacco companies created such a false image of their products and hid the potential dangers, so is Nintendo."
The irony of course is that a lawsuit blaming Nintendo for your being a fat moron who broke his arm pretending to play tennis is just as bad for lazy Americans who don't want to take responsibility for their lives. Of course, Torchia won't admit that he's as bad as Wii Fit if not worse. Both of them prey on the lazy, Torchia's just sad because Nintendo is getting all the fresh meat.
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2:20 PM on 02.09.2009
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Also, I'm getting sick of your Britishness Sterling.
We all know this isn't true because there's nothing worth playing on the wii amiright???
;)
Right. So ... having to be actively swinging your arms to play any of the Wii Sports games is so-o-o-o-o much worse than sitting down with a 360/PS3 controller where you get zero exercise at all. (Guilty of that one as well, thanks to my current Saints Row 2 addiction.)
Let's completely forget that I have much better ab, arm, leg, and chest strength thanks 100% to Wii Fit -- and I can now do things like the 12-minute island run, which I had no chance of doing just a few months ago. Oh, wait. I guess that's actually a collection of injuries and I should have stayed out-of-shape.
So, the fact that the Wii actually requires you to get your fat ass out of the chair and do something, that's deserving of a lawsuit, but 360/PS3 with their sit-in-a-chair controllers are no problems at all.
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
Thank God there's no law against being a stupid jackass or this guy would get the death penalty.
Would you kindly show me in this article where the ps3 or the 360 are even mentioned? At all? I must've missed it.
Otherwise, no point has no point.
So, the Wii gets people to realize that they're out of shape, which is really a positive thing, and gets hit with a lawsuit.
Other consoles don't do anything of the sort (the World of Warcraft episode of South Park comes to mind...) any they get a free pass.
It's just totally staggering.
Sorry. I'll change where I was born right away!
I can understand if maybe the Wii called you fat or killed your dog, but come on. Now you're just desperate for a quick buck.
By the way, do you know if the news site that posted the article is like really unpopular or something? They called the system the "Wii Play Station".
By the other way, I lost 20 lbs on Wii Fit, without changing anything else about my diet or exercise, no joke.
Yeah, that's why a whole shitload of Dtoid Wii owners have a shitload of games on the Virtual Console -- because we don't know squat about video games.
Go fuck yourself.