Inside Ubisoft's 'Your Shape' Fitness Game

N'Gai Croal — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:33:50 -0400

Video game journalist Stephen Totilo has suggested that we may currently be in the self-help era of video games, with products on the market that promise to help you keep your brain young, quit smoking, and get in shape. The latter category, fitness video games, has been led by the explosive success of Nintendo's balance board-driven Wii Fit, with nearly 22 million units sold worldwide.

Nintendo's Innovation Console: A Q&A With Reggie Fils-Aime

N'Gai Croal — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:23:07 -0400

For the past several years, Nintendo executives have been touting such books as "The Innovator's Dilemma" and "Blue Ocean Strategy" as a way to explain why they've been zigging while everyone else zagged. That's why at last month's Electronic Entertainment Expo, when Microsoft and Sony finally zagged with camera-based control systems for their respective video game consoles, attendees should not have been surprised when Nintendo zigged with the Wii Vitality Sensor: a hardware device that will monitor your heart rate for as yet unspecified interactive applications.

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