WIGGLE IT, JUST A LITTLE BIT

One thing I admire about Nintendo is that it’s never afraid to try something new. Sometimes those gambles don’t work and you end up with the Virtual Boy and the Wii U, but other times the Kyoto-based giant hits a home run and the Wii is one such example.

I was working on when Nintendo officially announced that its new console would be called the Wii, and I remember the derision the name faced from numerous magazines at the time. Many had already dismissed the motion controls as “pointless” and I’d