Doors open at nine, and a few hours later the consoles are gone. In the wee hours customers begin lining up around the block. At the Nintendo World store in New York City’s Rockefeller Center, shipments arrive nightly. Nintendo is churning out over a million units a month and still can’t meet demand. While game consoles typically attract youngish males with an antisocial streak, the Wii is bringing people of all demographics together: in nursing homes, for Wii bowling leagues, on cruise ships, at coed (!) Wii-themed parties, and, of course, in lines-as hordes of consumers clamor to buy the impossible-to-find $250 machine. ![]() Miyamoto, whose official title is senior managing director, would angle his hands from one side to another to avoid haymakers each time I missed, he’d giggle. In the boxing game my 54-year-old host and I were bobbing and weaving and punching at air-jabs and crosses mostly. By contrast the Wii’s wireless, motion-sensitive remote, which Miyamoto had been dreaming of for years, often requires no button manipulation whatsoever. ![]() Videogame controllers generally feature a bewildering array of buttons, and watching an avid gamer work the device, thumbs pattering across plastic, can be intimidating.
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