| Are you someone who doesn’t really like to | | | | different. Wii controllers are motion sensitive and can |
| exercise, yet wants some way to stay in shape? | | | | sense a player’s movements, so players must |
| That’s hardly surprising. Many hundreds of | | | | use these movements to control the Wii games. As |
| thousands of people around the world who know | | | | a result, Wii games involve much more movement |
| about the benefits of staying in shape want to do | | | | and action by players than games on any other |
| so, yet lack the willpower to make themselves | | | | gaming platform. |
| exercise on a regular basis. They invariably feel that | | | | |
| exercise is too boring, too painful, too difficult, or | | | | Nintendo designed the Wii Fit in particular to be both |
| something else along those lines. | | | | fun and a tool for helping people stay in shape and |
| | | | | have fun at the same time. The Wii Fit consists of a |
| A relatively large number of those people who | | | | board that is able to detect shifts in a player’s |
| don’t get enough exercise are gamers. Console | | | | weight. This means that a player controls games by |
| and computer games involve simply sitting in one | | | | simply standing on the board and leaning in different |
| place and moving nothing but your eyes and your | | | | directions. One game, for example, involves a sort of |
| hands, so gamers easily become unfit and out of | | | | dodgeball, where players must dodge incoming balls. |
| shape. In general, however, there are a great many | | | | In order to do so, a player simply needs to lean to |
| people who simply feel as if they do not have the | | | | the side, away from the path of the oncoming ball, |
| time or the energy to exercise and stay in shape. | | | | thus avoiding it. While this may seem overly simple, it |
| | | | | can be extremely tiring, especially since many games |
| The answer to this, really, is to make exercise fun | | | | for the Wii Fit involve constantly leaning this way and |
| somehow. That way, people will no longer feel as if it | | | | that. |
| is such a chore, and they can keep in shape while | | | | |
| having fun at the same time. Nintendo has come up | | | | Besides the Wii Fit, other Wii games are also |
| with the perfect solution in the form of the Wii Fit | | | | excellent for helping people stay in shape. The Wii |
| and other Wii games. | | | | Sports games, for example, require players to stand |
| | | | | and swing their controllers around as if they were |
| The Nintendo Wii is the latest generation of gaming | | | | swinging tennis rackets or golf clubs, or even |
| console from Nintendo, which finally departed from its | | | | pretending to be punching the lights out of someone |
| long-standing tradition of consoles that featured | | | | in a boxing game. While they may not seem to |
| so-called ‘button mashing’ games. These | | | | provide very much exercise, these games that get |
| games involve sitting on the couch and playing games | | | | players on their feet and moving about contribute a |
| by pressing buttons on wired controllers. With Wii | | | | great deal to helping gamers keep fit and stay in |
| games, however, the method of gameplay is entirely | | | | shape. |