Nintendo, just now, announced their new gadget for the Wii, the Wii Balance Board. It is a pressure sensitive platform, about the surfzce area of a milk crate and as tall as a bathroom scale. It measures pressure throughout its surface, so it can tell if you are leaning, bending over, rotating at the hips, etc. It can tell you how balanced you are.
The demonstrations involved a woman doing yoga stretches. The screen elements mimicked her movements. And told her how balanced she was on one foot while she was lifting the other leg. WiiFit.
Then there was a soccer demo, where you’re a soccer player leaning left and right. There are soccer balls flying at you, and you have to head butt them. Avoid the flying cleets. All played by leaning left and right.
I’m almost afraid of what will happen when this is combined with the wiimote.
Then they closed with their missions statement, which is basically to make video games the #1 choice for leisure activities worldwide, for all ages.
I love Nintendo with every inch of my dork.