The Speculist

My thought upon first seeing ads for Wii was that Nintendo may be marketing it wrong. With a few tweaks, it could be sold primarily as exercise equipment. I like those video boxing games that you see in arcades, where you go up against increasingly nasty opponents (and at the end, it tells you how many calories you burned off). I understand that Wii offers a boxing game, but you don't get those weighted gloves. Likewise, I see people in the adds playing tennis and bowling, but handling the Wii device doesn't look all that much like swinging a real racket or rolling a real ball. Eventually, you want the Wii device just to be something very small and unobtrusive that gets attached to a standard (or modified for virtual play) piece of sporting equipment -- golf club, tennis racket, baseball bat, sledge hammer.

"sledge hammer"

LOL!

:-)

At the time my son bought his 20# sledge hammer, he was using only for splitting logs. When he learned, a while later, how to do clown balancing with it, he wished he could go back in time to when he bought it, as he hadn't had a snappy answer for the sales clerk who wanted to know what he would use it for.