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Nintendo's Wii System - Three Ways Wii Is Revolutionizing Video Games
Nintendo's Wii system, launched with a flurry of worldwide marketing in autumn 2006, has revolutionized the world of gaming. The Wii system takes video games and gaming to new levels of activity which have benefited all levels of society, from schoolchildren to the elderly. Here are three ways Wii has revolutionized the world of video games and, in the process, brought some happy and healthy new trends to the world we live in.
1. Wii turns couch potatoes into fitness buffs. All right, the game probably isn't magic enough to turn seriously sedentary players into "fitness buffs." But the Wii (Nintendo's people prefer calling it just "Wii" instead of "Nintendo Wii"; cleverly personalizing the gaming system in the marketplace) certainly works hard to put people on their feet and get them moving. With it's revolutionary wireless controller which has the ability to "read" motion and acceleration three dimensionally, Wii literally makes the player interact, makes the player get up and move.
This active nature of Wii has led to interest across the generational board. Adults without kids who might never look at a video game system, thinking it too much "kids stuff," are sitting up -- standing up! -- and taking notice of Wii.
Those who rarely or never play video games are taking an interest in Wii because it is active, and the activity is "cloaked" with a high level of fun. Which means the fun helps develop many skills demanded by real-life sports such as tennis, baseball, bowling, and boxing (all of which are available as games for the Wii console)
2. Wii brings active, fun learning into many classrooms. A case can be made that a generation of kids going into today's military learned many skills useful for pilots, for example, by playing early video games, using software flight simulators, etc. With the advent of Wii, schools are discovering physical fitness, as well as hand-eye coordination, is becoming fun for a generation of students using Wii. PE classes in Missouri and Arkansas have had great success motivating kids to get up and moving while having fun doing it. They've turned the kids' love of games into activities far more appealing than dodge ball and rope climbing through Wii.
But using Wii in the classroom goes beyond physical fitness. An award-winning middle school teacher in New Jersey purchased his own Wii system to help his students understand the science of physics. He says middle-schoolers have trouble really picturing what concepts such as "velocity, acceleration, force, momentum, and work" mean. By involving the class with Wii, he's able to show them exactly what physics in action is all about.
3. Wii keeps elderly people active and is being used for research with diseases of aging. From senior centers to nursing homes, elderly people are getting up from their recliners and moving to the fun of Wii games. Researchers into such diseases as Parkinson's have reported Wii helping some patients improving their muscle control, coordination, and remaining active by regularly playing some of the Wii fitness
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