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I was also skeptical, at best.
However, we got one for the break room.. And it's actually pretty damned fun. Wii sports is played nearly 24x7 by at least 2 people all the time now, it seems.
The best is tennis - we have rankings, matches, etc. Even the 40 year old secretary who's never touched a game system in her life picked up playing tennis on it within a couple minutes. You just.... pretend you're playing tennis?
It's definitely not a replacement for a normal game system - but I generally don't find consoles very interesting anyways. It's a "social" based machine that is great for folks that either don't tend to socialize much anyways, or don't do the whole bar/going out/etc. scene. Plenty of friends would just kick it at their house with their girlfriends, and everyone would get in on a mario party competition - including the girls. Same idea goes here, just extended and the barrier of entry lowered.
Whether it works out or not longterm is yet to be seen.
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