Nintendo's Wii: a marriage saver?

It's fairly obvious that using the Wii to keep yourself slim and trim is bound to put a smile on your SO's face, but a curious banner at a presumed church used Nintendo's console (and its token font, too) to hint at answers to a successful marriage. Of course, a couple interested in spending countless hours of quality time gaming away with each other are indeed more likely to find common ground, but for the uber-competitive type, gaming together could lead to more quibbles than friendly laughs. Nevertheless, it shouldn't be surprising that a religious institution would tap into mainstream culture in order to garner attention to its offerings, and hey, if you've got to go to counseling for only taking "Mii" into consideration, you may as well get your game on while you're at it.

[Via NintendoWiiFanboy]

[Chuckles McGee @ May 13th 2007 1:06AM]

A disfunctional Wii can jeopardize a marriage: let Nintendo help.

[Vinay @ May 13th 2007 1:16AM]

If a video-game is what it's going to take to 'save' a marriage, the marriage is long-past dead, baybee!

[Paul @ May 13th 2007 2:50AM]

Most guys like video games, most girls don't.
I have yet to meet a girl who has played Wii Sports and didn't like playing at least one of the games.

A Wii probably can't redeem a failing marriage, but it can offer some healthy competition and bonding time.

[neothespian @ May 13th 2007 3:01AM]

Yeah...I'm sure it will save your marriage. Oh wait!!! You STILL can't buy one in any local store in Phoenix because they're constantly on backorder!

Good going Nintendo: Make a product, claim it will solve the worlds ills, and artificially deflate production and purposely withhold the product in order to make it "elite"

[Grant @ May 13th 2007 4:22PM]

"Good going Nintendo: Make a product, claim it will solve the worlds ills, and artificially deflate production and purposely withhold the product in order to make it "elite""

Nintendo didn't make any outrageous claims.
thats a church banner.
No company in the world which is making a profit off of their item(which MS and Sony are not, so those conspiracies don't count here) would make a shortage to make their item "Elite" when it is selling this well. The mark-up prices due to high demand do not change the wholesale price to the retailers, so Nintendo wouldn't make anymore money.
Nintendos not stupid, and if you check your local retailers (as long as you don't live in east bumblefuck of the southwest) they should be getting weekly deliveries.

Just because your not dedicated enough to make some phone calls and wake up early doesn't make nintendo any sort of a scheming supervillian.

[gfdfgfdg @ May 13th 2007 3:51AM]

Atheism is the answer.

[HuntinHippy @ May 13th 2007 5:19AM]

Why shouldn't God be in video games? If, as you profess, atheism is the answer; then what does it matter if God is in games? I consider myself a Christian based student of beliefs. In other words, I believe that Christ is my Lord and Saviour. I also believe that religion is over rated! Out of all of the books that I have read on religion, I can say that no one is right. All of them have something to teach us and as Gods word is truth, I ask that you look to physics,as well. I am but an infinitesimal collection of atoms... I can create and destroy, alter and observe, and much more. How can I believe that this much larger collections of atoms, of which I am a minute part of, cannot do so much greater than me.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
- Albert Einstein

To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.-Elbert Hubbard

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.-Douglas Adams

HuntinHippy

[dfgfdgdfg @ May 13th 2007 7:11PM]

no offense but I just don't get what you are trying to say.

[Cutie @ May 13th 2007 4:10AM]

Wii Games are really fun when Playing together. I love video games but don't think it won't be a marriage saver. Wii is fun to play together,, with friends. Because seeing our friends in 'action' sometimes will make me laugh.

[Vinay @ May 13th 2007 6:26AM]

God? Lol!

That imaginary infallible 'being' that created us fallibles, even though by definition, that infallible 'being' shouldn't have his creations fallible? Free will or not. The mind, being a product of infallible effort, must not have infallible thoughts. What an irony? Unless there is no God in the first place. Hmmm...

[Jeff @ May 13th 2007 12:50PM]

@ Vinay

hahaha that's cute... so i'm guessing you only stayed in your philosophy class for what, 10 minutes?

[Jono @ May 13th 2007 7:33AM]

I hear you Vinay!
All those people think that
'God made us out of nothing.' lol.
THEY ARE SO BLIND IN FAITH

We have evolved over billions and billions of years. First a massive explosion of mass, then out of the biggest explosion ever, came order. Perfect order, the earth orbiting the sun.
Can you imagine the world...
Without water?...
Without the moon?...
Closer to the sun?...
Further from the sun?...
Without atmosphere?...
Without Gravity?...

WOW! I guess we just got lucky during that big explosion! maybe we had a different piece of mass. lol

But you'd think there would be other planets like ours right? If it came out of just a big random pile of mass? Or at least maybe planets that are kind of the same?

BUT HEY. IM NO GENIUS!
All those scientists have proven we evolved. look at the evidence. Humans came from monkeys, they look so alike.

It's like the part in us that makes us evolve is more intelligent than us though. For while we were but humble apes, it knew that we would be smarter, stronger, and more adept if it were to evolve into a bigger Human. I know it sounds like i just described some kind, of all knowing God. But i was just talking about the thing that is in every one of us. Every ape, and every single celled organism.

Jono

[ph @ May 13th 2007 9:12AM]

"hear you Vinay!
All those people think that
'God made us out of nothing.' lol.
THEY ARE SO BLIND IN FAITH"

And you are so blind in your atheism.

"Don't you have some war to start in the name of christ or something instead of crying on Engadget about people who don't believe?"

Christians are not Muslims. Get your facts straight. Christians have started only one war in the name of Christianity, and that is the crusades. Even those can be thought of as a counter attack against Muslim aggression in north Africa and Spain

[Jono @ May 14th 2007 8:10AM]

hey Ph,

sorry about that. I actually am christian. I was trying to sound like an ignorent evolutionist so peeps would see how stupid their biased view is.
But i got carried away and forgot to tie it up.

any way thanks for the comment, I was hopping someone would post something like that in response.


Oh and by the way, I checked out the website and it seems all a bit too comercial. Kind of like all those 'christian bands.' (Not saying there aren't real christian bands.)

[Jypson @ May 13th 2007 7:51AM]

Don't you have some war to start in the name of christ or something instead of crying on Engadget about people who don't believe?

[tekdroid @ May 13th 2007 9:17AM]

http://www.reallifefellowship.org/
Take the Wii Personality Test!

(I refused, because I won't stand for the Wii and religion mixing...)

[ph @ May 13th 2007 9:46AM]

I got

Extraverted Intuitive Thinking Judging

22 38 88 44

[CajunLuke @ May 13th 2007 10:06AM]

"Christians are not Muslims. Get your facts straight. Christians have started only one war in the name of Christianity, and that is the crusades. Even those can be thought of as a counter attack against Muslim aggression in north Africa and Spain"

BULLSHIT. The Crusades weren't one war, they were many wars over several hundred years (notice the plural). They were also unjustified, as the Christians were trying to do what the Muslims had already done: proselytize into North Africa, the Middle East, and the Iberian Peninsula. (Though the last falls under the heading of "the Reconquista", not the Crusades, which were largely ineffectual except for killing loads of people.) Very few people sit around wanting to be converted; if an invading army comes through and tries forcible conversion, most people get mad. Yes. Christians (and I am one) are not Muslims, but that doesn't make us any less or more warlike. (Don't forget all the Christian-on-Christian violence that happened during the Reformation. And the invasion of North America and sub-Saharan Africa by the European powers - in the name of Christ and their Queen/King.)
So, "let he who has no sin throw the first stone". Don't judge Islam unless you are willing to be judged by the same metric. You will be found lacking.
I doubt Osama bin Laden and other fundamentalist religious leaders (including Jerry Falwell and James Dobson) truly believe in their professed faith; they merely use it as a tool to wrap their message in so it appears more palatable to more people, whatever the message is.

[CajunLuke @ May 13th 2007 10:17AM]

To follow up: most Muslims (like most Christians) have no interest in war against the other (or anybody, for that matter), but we believe we must fight to "protect our way of life". (If our way of life isn't good enough to protect itself, it isn't worth protecting; we need a better one.) It's going to become a Hatfield/McCoy conflict before long if we don't do something while we still remember what the root cause is.

[ph @ May 13th 2007 11:08AM]

"Christians (and I am one) are not Muslims, but that doesn't make us any less or more warlike."

Where are the terrorist attacks by Christians? Where are the angry mobs of Christians that kill people because of a misunderstanding with a newspaper cartoon? Where are the Christians that say they will not rest until every infidel is destroyed?

[iphonefreek @ Aug 6th 2007 4:45PM]

ph,

All of those terrorist Christians are
in Iraq right now..... :-)

[Mr. Vage @ May 13th 2007 10:54AM]

Tommorow's news:
Nintendo Wii cures cancer, eliminates AIDS, and ends world hunger.

I'm also seeing a Wii carrying a child to safety from some burning wreckage as the picture to go with the article.

[BrokenKB @ May 13th 2007 2:15PM]

"Where are the terrorist attacks by Christians?"

There's a Christian terrorist in the white house right now.

[Ryan Block @ May 13th 2007 12:30PM]

Ok everybody, chill out please. Don't want to have to shut down the comment thread.

[Jeff @ May 13th 2007 12:52PM]

It seems to me that it's just an over-paid, under-talented marketing group stealing Nintendo's logo / marketing material to try an appeal to the "mainstream" - does the church actually have ANYTHING to do or say about nintendo's Wii? their personality test certainly doesn't

- i think it's just a case of stolen marketing materials. (I.E. it's no so much a reference as it is theft.)

[Vinay @ May 13th 2007 1:19PM]

Re: Jeff


Oh yea? Well, if you've stayed there long enough, why don't you come up with something more useful than "you've stayed there all of 10 minutes" bull¢rap? Let us all see what you have masquerading for an explanation, instead of uttering nonsense...

[Fritz @ May 13th 2007 2:44PM]

ZING !!!

[directive0 @ May 13th 2007 3:37PM]

This degraded into a religious debate pretty rapidly... didn't it?


How boring.

[dfgdfgfdg @ May 13th 2007 7:10PM]

more interesting than The Church of Wii.

[Azimous @ May 14th 2007 12:34AM]

Religion is a pseudo-science on the same level as bigfoot and aliens. The universal characteristics of a pseudo-science is that there is no hard evidence and that the science is made up almost completely from testimonies of the believers. From ghosts to powerful crystals to bigfoot like monsters, there is no real evidence, but plenty of believers who will swear on their mothers graves as to the validity of the science. Religion is the same. There is no real evidence and many believers with testimonies. I for one believe that this is how God wants it. Where would be the need for faith otherwise. More importantly, religion is a very personal thing between the believer and God. I will never be able to show evidence of Christ's existence, or that He payed the price for my sins that I might be able to live with my Father if heaven again some day. Yet no amount of science or philosophy will ever take from me the deep personal experiences that I have had through prayer and studying His words. My prayers have been answered and I know with out a doubt that God lives and created us all. I also know that if people would just prayerfully study the scriptures than they could also know.

[ph @ May 14th 2007 1:20AM]

While I agree with you mostly, I would also like to point out that there is just as little evidence for being no God as there is for there being a God. Both Athiesm and Religion demand faith.

[tank @ May 14th 2007 12:43AM]

That church is about 2 miles from my house.

[ph @ May 14th 2007 1:21AM]

"There's a Christian terrorist in the white house right now."

He is an elected official. Elected by the people. Even after he went to war, the people still voted him into office.

And even if he is a terrorist, then he is a terrorist that happens to be Christian, not a terrorist BECAUSE he is a christain

[Cameron @ May 15th 2007 8:17PM]

Does this seem like a strange and inappropriate forum for an unfriendly religion debate to anyone else? Take your rabid comments elsewhere, both pro and con. I'm just sayin'.