Video games are one of many pass times that are typically take place in teenager's bedrooms. You get them a games console when they're about ten (because all their friends have one of course) and then they disappear for lengthy periods, surfacing once in a while to load up on snacks and fizzy drinks.
However, that all changed when the Nintendo Wii hit the market. It soon became obvious that the Wii was a console better suited to the living room than the bedroom. There are a number of reasons for this.
First of all, the Wii's motion sensitive controller (the wii-mote) meant that the manner in which games were played was much more intuitive. Games were much simpler to get the hang of, no need to remember that button X is to punch, button Y lets you breathe fire and button Z freezes time. As a matter of fact, Wii games are so easy to play that even adults can get the hang of them in a matter of minutes.
Also, because of the physical element of Wii games, there's some exercise involved. Not just Wii Fit - but virtually all of the Wii games involve a certain element of jumping around, much more so than the typical games found on other consoles. That needs a bit of space.
For some reason, which is difficult to quantify precisely, Wii games and the Wii console seem to have a more social element than has been seen up to now with other PC or console games. You can "play the computer" if you want of course, but Wii games tend to be much more fun as part of a group of gamers.
Maybe it's the fact that you have to dance around, wave your arms about and generally make yourself look a bit silly at times. Whatever the reason, the Wii is undoubtedly a group activity.
It may sound a bit corny, but the Wii really is fun for children of all ages. Wii games can be a social event, they can help you to exercise and lose weight and they are a lot of fun. Most important of all, the Wii has taken video games out of teenager's bedrooms and planted them fairly and squarely in the family living room.
In fact, this might go some way to explaining the success when Nintendo recently "went to the dark side" and released a black Wii console in Europe just before Christmas. It proved to be very popular with customers - possibly because the black colour matched the other devices in their living rooms. As yet, the black Nintendo Wii console has not been launched in the USA.
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