Retirement home embraces Wii
The Big N always said that they were going to target the audiences that no other games companies dared with the Wii; the untapped markets. Understandably, most laughed. It couldn’t be done. Non-gamers were non-gamers and that was that. Well, to those who didn’t believe, I give you the Sedgebrook Retirement Community in Chicago. They are the latest group of newbies (oldies?) to be converted over to the ways of Nintendo. He who laughs last, as they say, laughs longest.
The majority of the residents — average age: 77 years — had never played a games console until the Wii arrived in their clubhouse lounge, but now it’s a favourite pass time. Twenty residents have even organised and signed up for a Wii Sports Bowling tournament and, get this, they’ve even got one of those hand-drying fan thingys installed just like a real bowling alley! Got room for 1 more competitor, folks? Lets hope this catches on in retirement homes the world over. I won’t resent my kids for packing me up and shipping me off to a home quite as much providing they send me to one with a Nintendo to spend my final hours playing. In fact, I wouldn’t mind moving in now. Fifty-odd years is an awful long time to wait. Source.
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