Change the way you play!

Nintendo claims to have revolutionised game-playing in 2007.

If yours isn’t a family where the dad has his sleeves rolled up and is playing a virtual game of tennis with one of the kids, then chances are, you probably know of one.

The Wii has this eerie way of pulling you in, regardless of whether you are an inherent gamer and regardless of your age.

Nintendo claims that it is changing how people play games, and how many people play games. The Wii continues to bring families together, as everyone from grandparents to children discovers, or rediscovers, the thrills of video games – getting them up, active, and involved in the game.

As the world’s most popular video game system, the Nintendo DS has sold more than 50 million units worldwide while introducing new experiences like training brains and vision, interacting with puppies, and even cooking.

Nintendo DS remains the system of portable creativity as it builds on the expanded audience of women and older gamers

If you want more proof of the Nintendo’s self-proclaimed super-status, you just have to look at the sales records – they don’t leave much room for doubt! In the first week of the 2007 holiday shopping season, Nintendo of America sold more products than at any other time in its history.

This includes more than 653,000 Nintendo DS portable video game systems, 350,000 Wii home systems and millions of games and accessories throughout the United States – and the season is just getting started. Nintendo DS set a new all-time sales record for Thanksgiving week, eclipsing the previous mark of 600,000 Game Boy Advance systems sold during the same period in the United States in 2005.

Nintendo DS remains on track to be the top-selling video game system of 2007. Nintendo’s 350,000 Wii systems represent the highest one-week US sales total outside of its launch week one year ago. Nintendo reports Wii has been dubbed the must-have gift of the 2007 holiday season and has been placed at the top of numerous gift lists.

So, if you’ve neither gotten nor given one of these babies this festive season, you better give it a think: surely, they can’t ALL have lost the plot?