Its the guy who wants to be like that guy, who wants be WAYNE BRADY!!!

I don't get all the fuss over these commercials. Yeah, "real" gamers will think this is an embarrasment, but it conveys the image of fun to the non-gaming parents and casual gamers who wouldn't want to see a commercial showcasing gamers sitting in dark rooms with a bowl of chips, a beer, occasionally shouting out "Boom! Headshot!" Besides, the target audience is the casual gamer, so this commercial suits that demograph.

Well, they are trying to promote and advertise this game as being fun and enjoyable for casual gamers. Of course there will be over-the-top acting involved.

@William Sun: That black guy didn't go over-the-top. He went into some other dimension of creepiness. That smile will scar me for life. Seriously, that just took it too far.

Did they name their Mii's Shadow, Knuckles, and Peach? WHY?

Also, Eggman (or is it Robotnik?) definately had the advantage in the fencing. The Mii's stubby arms don't make a match for his lankiness.

and this is why it is so sad to see the wii get so far ahead in this generation. The wii is bringing about the death of gaming.... the wii is a gimmick gimmick gimmick

FINALLY! After countless hours spent writing fanfics, my dream of seeing Hitler kill Yoshi with a rapier will be realized after all these years!

That one guy licked his lips before, swinging the ball around! Like his next lay depended on it! LMAO! Ima do that same shit as soon as get a wii and this game.

@Mr. Fap☆Fap!: Oh and whoever came up with the concept of rollover ads really needs to be consigned to a special place in Hell. That damn Dementium ad is...making me want to hurt people.

@Ninja-Z: True but... wait... Im thinking... No you're right. Young Gamer's mom will be moved by that commercial. Its a shame that it has to be so goshdarned corny.

@laterthanyou: Yeah it may be gimicky, but give it some time. I sure some 3rd party dev teams will make some awesome things. When i went to classic game convention, I saw one cool game on the virtual boy. Id strain my eyes for a bit over this underplayed game.(it had like mine carts or some shit, but was fun)I am actually looking for this game, but seriously people! it is gimicky! but that dose not mean it wont have anything awesome on it.

I don't know, I actually find this pretty charming. I wasn't planning to buy Mario and Sonic at the Olympics but this trailer has definitely sparked my interest.

It may be a little over the top, sure, but it does what it's meant to do: attract potential buyers.

@laterthanyou:
What is so sad? This game looks like Rayman Raving Rabbids, which was a lot of fun. Seriously, get some friends that you didn't meet online and actually try the wii the way it's meant to be played.

Is it bad that I imagine the director behind the camera as they're filming these ads, holding a whip and yelling "MORE FUN! SMILES! LAUGHTER! YELLING! EXAGGERATE MORE, DAMMIT!"? It really seems like each ad is just MORE over the top than the last.

You know what would actually be awesome? If they took your data from Wii Sports and that help decide how good you're Mii is in the game.

Yeah, it looks like rayman raving rabbids without any of the humor, charm, good art direction or shooter levels.

In other words, awful.

@twesterm: Sounds like something that'd be more likely with Wii Fit. :P

@kevko: wait wait wait since when have games meant to be fun? just kidding. I'm sure that some people genuinely have fun playing those games. I couldn't. I spent my teen years playing SF2 competitively. This game looks like nothing more than track and field. I'm sure there is technique to it, but I'm also sure there is no strategy either. Once you've mastered technique, there's not much afterwards. I've tried the wii. I was excited to play it. Didn't and does not live up to the hype. Nintendo's Blue Ocean strategy may be raking in the cash but it also has the chance of watering down the game market. Pulling money away from other games to make to appeal to the true mainstream who really are buying the wii..

I was hoping this game would at least look better if it wasn't all that and a bag of chips. It's not a dig at the Wii's graphical capacities, I mean it doesn't look like fun. The actors are laughing all the way to the bank, but it seems less likely that the people who buy the game will be...

My only qualm is: How come Knuckles, Shadow, Peach and Daisy look like anything they're suppose too?

What's the problem with this ad?

The problem is simple. While it's nice of nintendo to do what it does the stupid people of mainstream like to classify related things together in a group.

So, they see the wii they think: family friendly, children's toy, video-game.

See the problem is the ignorant people start generalizing all video-games to have these same connotations.

So then they start equating the X360 and PS3 to the wii then we have soccer moms starting organizations trying to get game ads banned from city buses, fanatic loons pretending to lawyers and talk show wannabe psychologist talking to people about the danger of video-games, and with law makers right on their heels trying to earn brownie points with the masses.

You may want to right me off, and that's fine but isn't the edited version of Manhunt 2 banned in the UK?

The same the version that got a M rating in the States? How long until some "concerned" law maker realizes that and we hear about people wanting federal regulations on video-games again.

Wow, obviously you guys have never been around a group of non-gamers before. This shit really does happen and I don't mind it. Want to know why? Since every time I've seen it, they've been having fun. Remember that games are supposed to be that way.

And no, it's not too over the top in that video. You all need to lighten the fuck up.

Sega... Shame on you.

The "little shot" with fingers that one dude do there...was so...so.... ...c'mon we just do it playing winning eleven HAUHAUHAUHA

@KumagaiToshiro: I know what you mean. The first time I picked up a Wiimote to play Tennis and Boxing I went nuts. And I consider myself a pretty hardcore gamer.

That said, I missed the days when geeks were geeks and people who "had a life" were people who "had a life". Times were simpler back then.

@LxLegend:
that ranks among the most stark-raving insane kotaku comments i have ever read. i'm not even going to pick it apart or anything, it's just... surreal

@Gunhaver:

I got popped in the arm while playing Wii Sports Baseball the night it launched. It was goofy fun. I could definitely see myself and friends getting crazy with this game, just like we do with the old Track & Field machine we play. That's part of the experience.

And I hear you about the old days.

Man, that was awful. Embarrassing. I would gladly punch the fuck out a person playing this game in this exact manner. I would enjoy this profusely such action profusely.

Damn Nintendo, seriously. Why do you want me to like you less and less?

when did gamers become such snobs and poseurs

"don't look like that when you're playing a game! what will people think? that you're having fun? BLASPHEMY. GAMES ARE SERIOUS"

and so on and so forth

@frostcircus:

They look fucking retarded. Have you seen little kids play games, the way they tilt their bodies and/or turn their hands in whatever direction their avatar/character is moving? We've finally come to that.

You know, on a regular controller all I'd need to do is tap two buttons in a alternate fashion. Not flail my arms like a dumbass as seen in the video above.

I think some of you need to understand this ad wasn't exactly aimed at your demographic (HARDCORE GAMERZ). It was aimed at exactly the people who play the games just like this. "Soccer moms" and "young kids" will probably pick this one up. You can guarantee that most people who buy this, will also probably buy Wii Fit and currently only own Wii Sports.

If you see a childrens toy advert on TV, do you kick up a stink and complain about how the kids are shithouse actors and that the dolls look nothing like the kids who are pretending to be a mum? If you see an ad on TV for a show that you don't like, do you have to voice your opinion about how ugly the father is and how hot the mum is even though she can't play a role to save her life?

Where am I going with this? And why are there so many questions? Dunno.

@Gundam_Halo: You sound like you were offended by this game? Why? You do know that there are other people in the world who enjoy doing things differently to you, right? Like, there ARE alternatives to the things that you prefer, yeah? Cool. I think you need to just mellow out, man.

It's 4:20!

God forbid someone laugh and enjoy themselves playing a videogame.

Fucking hell. Internet: SERIOUS BUSINESS PEOPLE.

i think this commercial is ok for a wii sport game. i mostly overreacly game the wii sport games, so i can look like that, withouth the models.

wtf with a group with 6 six differnt races?, is that a political correct shit?.

What an awful, awful ad. Still, not as bad as the Mercury Meltdown Wii ad.

@Gundam_Halo:
Hey, I used to do that. Now people will be able to do that and look less crazy, because those movements will actually have an effect on said avatars/characters.

@frostcircus: Ture, but I did just finish reading these two articles [www.escapistmagazine.com] and [www.escapistmagazine.com] so, yeah I may have been a bit reaching with that one for this topic. But that doesn't make it any less true.

@Maxine_T:

The last thing the videogame industry is a console with games/controls that target 'young kids'.

And the only reason I make such a blanket statement is for the fact that the videogame industry is subject to government legislation/banning/investigations/prick lawyers/lawsuits because of fucked up conclusions/research based on the stigma that videogames are only for kids.

Grow up SEGA; Nintendo, I know the Wii makes you a fuck ton of money, but fuck your Blue Ocean bullshit.

@Gundam_Halo: If you don't want to play kiddie games, then don't buy them. If the console ends up being "kiddie game only", then don't buy it. If you're a Nintendo fanboy, and you hate the new change -- get over it. They're making money and that's what a business is designed to do. It's not that hard to understand.

Ok.. admittedly, I am quite buzzed on a lovely bottle of wine tonight.. But I was thinking... Why is it that so many people seem to have a problem with the "casual gamer" thing? I mean... so what? There are more games for people that don't want to shoot and kill everything in sight.. and more games for younger kids... and more games that are easy to sit down and play for those few minutes you have before you have to run out the door... Isn't this a good thing overall? Maybe more games will be developed, maybe there will be some you like! Maybe gaming will become even more mainstream! Maybe that will give us all more choices! Hooray!

Also.. does Vermont smell like maple? Because I was just thinking... The coast always smells like ocean.. wouldn't Vermont smell like maple? Yeah..

@Gundam_Halo: I tried making sense out of your statements, then I got bored and decided to go play Wii tennis. It was hella fun.

The elitism of the so-called "hardcore" gamers here is nauseating.

"Nintendo is killing gaming! People outside of those who get there rocks off landing headshots are getting to have fun too!! Noooo!! Gaming is mine, gimme back, mine, mine, mine!!!"

So sad.

This is going to sell bajillions.

Personally, I believe this is the way the game was meant to be played. I mean the game is probably shallow enough, It'd be worse to detract from the value of the game by not playing it in a "fun" way. It truly would be boring if I sat on a couch hunched over flicking my wrist every few minutes like a Turrets-inflicted cabbage.

I don't get why everyone's cool with Nintendo turning the videogame stereotype into reality.

Oh well. Off to play Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal. And least I don't have to swing my controller at the screen for every blue/yellow portal.

I am glad that Sega is bringing back the riffage.

well despite the poor acting, i'm sure they were looking at a blank television being told what to do with cue cards, but on a more appropriate topic, the game looked cool especially that sword fighting thing.

speaking of nauseating, i'd be interested to hear the anti-fun brigade explain exactly how a videogame is not a toy. and why it's a pastime that only Grown-Ups should be allowed to indulge in.

...actually, i probably wouldn't even read it, but i'd be interested to see if they actually could justify that inexplicable leap of logioh fuck it you people are seriously completely and irreversibly nuts

oh well, at least there have been a handful of people sane enough not to self-immolate over something as trite and ineffectual as this

After reading through the comments...a couple of things:

1. I find it amusing that almost everyone that was offended by "hardcore gamers" reacting against the Wii's "kiddie" games went on to label the hardcore gamers stereotypically as avid FPS players. I mean...can't a "hardcore" gamer like fighters? RPGs? RTSs? 3rd person action? Racing?

2. I think it is also a bit early to stick the "soccer moms and kids only" label on the Wii. While yes, the current lineup of games is heavily slanted towards that demographic, one must hope that legit 3rd party developers will come to the Wii at some point. But until the Wii gets a 3rd person action game not called Zelda, an FPS not called Metroid, an RPG not called Crystal Chronicles, a racing game not called Mario Kart, and a fighting game not called Smash Bros., the non-hardcore stigma is going to remain.

Now, if the Wii is still lacking in the non-kiddie department by next holiday season, it may well be time for the hardcore to write it off. Now is too soon however. As for what they could do....Contra on the Wii? Starfox? F-Zero? Eternal Darkness? Those would all be great steps in winning over the gamer demographic.

the wii also happens to have the best version of the best episode of one of the best horror series in gaming history, which single-handedly destroys the m