Wii is your grandparents’ console, LR comments rule
David Johnson March 23rd, 2007
Quite a while back, LR commenter Patrick responded to a post on game console popularity, “My friends are telling me that even their grandmas are getting into the games, especially bowling.” Fast forward to today’s Reuters headline: Wii game console bowling over U.S. retirees. Right on, Patrick!
So let it be heard: comments rule. The LR community is living proof of the value of the “news conversation” and contributed content — comments to posts frequently develop into real commentary and virtual roundtables. Saf and Cory weigh in on threads with heavy value, and some days my posts consist only of long-winded opinions and observations in the comments. But dear LR readers, when you share your opinions, experiences and expertise, you are the ones who really make the site sing. I absolutely love it when we post a controversial article, and the subject of the article responds openly.
Thanks for reading, everyone, and thanks for playing along.
4 Comments Add your own
1. Steve Safran | March 23rd, 2007 at 8:10 am
Reuters owes Patrick a royalty fee.
WAY TO GO PATRICK!
2. Patrick | March 23rd, 2007 at 10:37 am
LOL wow. I feel all warm and fuzzy now, thanks! I am addicted to the bowling and tennis games, but it’s older folks who normally wouldn’t play video games that are really having a blast with the Wii.
Like Hussman said in the original thread, it’ll be interesting to see how things really play out once Nintendo starts adding more Wii channels, news and weather were just the beginning it seems…think they’ll be adding video?
3. Hussman | March 26th, 2007 at 6:18 am
My mother-in-law (late 70’s) got to try our Wii this weekend. She liked the bowling, and it was hilarious to watch her throw sliders and strike out my 14 year old son in Wii Baseball.
And Nintendo would be fools to not add video soon. Could they be forging Content deals? Can you imagine if NBC added some sort of Wii component to Heroes, perhaps custom Miis or a Wii compatable game for download? Nifty marketing there…
4. Kyriakos | August 11th, 2007 at 4:33 am
Nice
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