Nintendo holds Wii event at Life@50+ |
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How'd you like playing Red Steel with your grandpa? We're sure many of you are going to say "duh?" but there must be that one time that your grandpa asked you to play gin rummy with him. And we think it's only fair to return the favor. It's not like playing with a grayhead is so bad! Nintendo had this in mind when they brought the Wii at an annual AARP-sponsored event called Life@50+ in Anaheim, California. Believe it or not, more than 20,000 non-hardcore fifty-ish folks attended the said event. We sure hope Nintendo doesn't intend to market the Wii just for the old folks, but it's a great thing that they actually target a wide range of users that are not just into Splinter Cell: Double Agent or GT Pro Series (although it would be cool if old-timers can try their hand on these games). Nintendo includes a small library of games that are family-friendly enough so they're confident the Wii is going to get the thumbs-up from the senior fans.
Nintendo made a splash with the DS' Brain Age, as they say it's perfect for improving brain functions. We couldn't agree more.
Via NY Times
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I guess since Nintendo can't count on children to buy the Wii, they have to look somewhere...
...the parents and grandparents of those children, who have been buying all this stuff on behalf of their children for the past 20 years. Nothing wrong with Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft wanting the buyers to feel like they can get something out of it, too.
Man, this blog let just any news pop without checking the content. Talking about a legend not even recognising him, so lame...
"It's not like playing with a grayhead is so bad!"
WTF?
"here must be that one time that your grandpa asked you to play gin rummy with him"
... Marie N., try to search a "little" more before posting stuff? at least with the images you post..
and no the wii is not searching for old people, it's aiming at the casual gamers, wathever their age, that's all!
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and nobody is recognising him... you are so lame all of you who didn't even realised...
He was talking about the relation between the movies and games if you didn't see the IGN presentation.... So Miyamoto ( if I remember his name right ) is not just playing with "any old guy" you stupid gang of imbeciles....
shame on Marie N., next time.. no, I simply hope you'll not post another time, I think all the post I read form you were like that....
you dont know sh1t about movies,games,wr iting or how to f*cking research for an article you friggin dumb@ss
yet they never stop.
Seriously folks, you do realize that the ranting about the photo is absolutely irrelevant, don't you? First off, this pic is half a year old, it is not from the event the article is about but from E3. It has been around the net for ages. Secondly, it doesn't matter if the man on the right is Steven Spielberg or Old Grumpy. No one mentions "Look, Shigsy playing with an old fart!" and I can't remember anything worth of note for the gaming industry as a whole coming from Steven Spielberg. This might be real news to some of you, but reading news and articles on a blog like this is actually about reading! The photo is supplementary and just taken off of a pool of pics gathered over time. Nothing wrong with that. They coud've taken a movie still of the promotional video for the wii, with the grandparents playing wii orchestra or fishing with the little boy. Would that have been more fitting? I guess not...
Can we stop this isn't importent. Its just an article about wii appealing to people older than 36 in yes..there mother's basemernt. Steven Spielberg movie ET destroyed atari. Not directly through the crappy ET game that Atari made.
The whole "Oh-MY-GOD Spielberg plays on the Wii!" excitement died down before June 2006 rolled along - and those of us who have not forgotten how he butchered the ending of "AI" still won't give forgive him, hehe, so I think Marie is justified in *not* mentioning Spielberg again. She might have used a different picture, but she was well within her rights as a writer to use whatever image we had on file. And if Spielberg is the oldest man we have playing a Wii, so be it. HAHA! :) Could she have used a different image? Of course she could have used another image! But in the final analysis, isn't this *really* just an image of "an old man playing on the Wii"? Of course it is! Still, you're right, it *would* have been *better* if she gave a "salute" or a bit of "hero worship" and mentioned that it was Spielberg in the image, but did she *have* to in the context of this article? Well, that's her call. Thanks for your concern though. :) We appreciate any feedback that makes us consider whether our writing (and images) are satisfying for our readers.
The whole "Oh-MY-GOD Spielberg plays on the Wii!" excitement died down before June 2006 rolled along - and those of us who have not forgotten how he butchered the ending of "AI" still won't give forgive him, hehe, so I think Marie is justified in *not* mentioning Spielberg again. She might have used a different picture, but she was well within her rights as a writer to use whatever image we had on file. And if Spielberg is the oldest man we have playing a Wii, so be it. HAHA! :) Could she have used a different image? Of course she could have used another image! But in the final analysis, isn't this *really* just an image of "an old man playing on the Wii"? Of course it is! Still, you're right, it *would* have been *better* if she gave a "salute" or a bit of "hero worship" and mentioned that it was Spielberg in the image, but did she *have* to in the context of this article? Well, that's her call. Thanks for your concern though. :) We appreciate any feedback that makes us consider whether our writing (and images) are satisfying for our readers. *** Sorry for the double post, but I think it's justified in a case where somebody calls one of our hardest-working writers (and a funny and pretty gaming enthusiast) a "dumb@ass" because she didn't give enough respect for Spielberg. Hehehe. :) ***
It was not the ET movie that destroyed Atari. It wasn't even the ET game that destroyed Atari. The ET game destroyed itself.
Also, where you get the "mother's basement" bit, I can't understand. Guess what, games appeal to the over 36 crowd who have moved on with their lives, too. I'm in my 20's, but it's easy to see that. Why can't you?
Children don't have money. No system markets to children. Teenagers and young adults are the money market.
You must get beaten up a lot in gym class.