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Nintendo is coming out with the Wii MotionPlus , which improves the already revolutionary controller. It started me thinking on what else Nintendo could do. For instance, one or two cameras could be mounted on the TV pointing to the players. This has been done before and makes for some fun games. It also could be used to improve the playability of the games. Imagine a sword fight where you can physically jump out of the way of the sword! Today if I want to play a quick game on the Wii Fit, I have to: Drag out the Wii Fit platform and turn it on. Find the Wii Fit DVD. Eject the game that's already in the console, hope that my son saved his game and put the DVD somewhere. Put the Wii Fit DVD in the console and restart the console. Move and click the cursor to select the Wii Fit game. Go through several screens and warnings. Select which player I am. Start playing, whew! It could be a lot easier. Putting in a DVD to select a game seems sooo 2001. I can't remebe...

We we cleaning out some closest and my son picked up an old game of mine: Baldur's Gate from 1998. It's pretty tough for him since it's all in English and it's pretty complicated, but he likes it. These old games still are lots of fun.

I've been playing Guitar Hero ( at work of course ;-) ), and Elite Beat Agents on the DS and I'm thinking to myself, "Why would I want to listen to music that I can't interact with ever again?".

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