Today's healthiest video: Wii Sports experiment on NBC
by Ross Miller 
{ Jan 22nd 2007 at 12:20AM }
Remember the guy who claimed to have lost nine pounds from playing Nintendo Wii? That man, Mickey DeLorenzo of Wii Nintendo, was featured on the local NBC news, and the related video has been named the top gaming video on YouTube.Seeing Delorenzo measure himself was an interesting part of the report, but what got us was the reporter's reaction, which was of utter shock that a video game system was not causing weight gain. Despite that, we still have obligatory Wii puns, including:
- "Wii-search" (as in, research)
- "A Wii bit of exercise"
- "Wii like it."
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mitsuo @ Jan 22nd 2007 12:29AM
wow...finally a news piece that's actually GOOD for video games! BRAVO.
Randomhiro @ Jan 22nd 2007 10:04AM
At least Nintendo will finally get more recognition for their awesome console. The more people know about it, the better. Now if they could just get a few more shipped out for people to buy...
t-dog @ Jan 22nd 2007 12:51AM
I think you meant "...utter shock that a video game system was causing weight loss."
Psyclerk @ Jan 22nd 2007 12:54AM
He lost only nine pounds but TWO pants sizes? How is that possible?
mark @ Jan 22nd 2007 6:32PM
Great revolutionary system...check!
Cheap price...check!
Weight-loss/exercise system...check!
Nintendo is on a role!
Frankie @ Jan 22nd 2007 1:11AM
And Nintendo's plan to take over the gaming world and turn it inside out begins.
Billyok @ Jan 22nd 2007 1:11AM
@4
Lost fat weight + gained muscle weight = two pant sizes and only 9 lbs. lost.
Or maybe not, but it's possible. The number on the scale does not reveal all.
Grant @ Jan 22nd 2007 1:12AM
two pants sizes.... cause it looks like he wears womans jeans.
i think this was the final push we needed to try and stop what has been plaguing the media for so long. The mentality that bad puns are OK.
Bad puns are never ok, not even when your cheesy uncle who loves jesus says them. NEVER. especially not on TV.
Flash Gamer @ Jan 22nd 2007 1:12AM
I think it's time for me to get a Wii. I've been looking for a new activity. I just purchased a ping pong table and it's not that great for exercise.
kojima rocks @ Jan 22nd 2007 1:30AM
This console would probably beat PSXBOX hands down... but how I wish they had slightly higher specs, I totally buy the wii argument that better games does not mean better graphics, but with the current hardware, my fear is that games like Assassins or RE5 would not come to the console, if they do R.I.P. PSXBOX.
Grunge @ Jan 22nd 2007 2:02AM
Or you could just go to the gym like a non-retarded person. But I guess that's too much trouble for people that love gimmicky control systems and shitty graphics.
Frankie @ Jan 22nd 2007 2:04AM
@10
Well, the PS3 and the 360 just have to offer something people can't get on the Wii and hope for people respond now, should they.
I doubt Assasin's creed and RE5 will even touch the wii and it's not even a lost if "similar games" just go straight to the Wii because you will never know what they looked like on the 360/PS3 in the first place. It's like saying you lost money on potential sales you never would have made in the first place.
Dane @ Jan 22nd 2007 12:34PM
I finally have a Wii! If you don't have one you need to get one. I've been playing Wii Sports, and Zelda all day and can't get enough. Its a nice change from traditional controls. Online and HD graphics are lacking but thats what I have a 360 for. Wii doesn't need HD to be fun though. Love it. Rockin' the Wii60!
Shaun @ Jan 22nd 2007 3:20AM
I only caught two Wii puns in that entire video. Not too shabby, NBC 10. You really held back. I'm proud of you.
I think wii're all proud of you.
Grunge @ Jan 22nd 2007 3:46AM
Frankie, I just read your post, and it has deeply offended me. The English language is something that I hold near and dear to my heart. I can accept when people make spelling or grammatical errors. Language is freeform, that's one of the things that's so great about it. What I cannot accept is someone such as yourself putting words into nonsensical arrangements.
Lettuce review.
"Well, the PS3 and the 360 just have to offer something people can't get on the Wii" Here you are off to a good start. This is where your sentence should have ended. It makes a statement that few people will disagree with, and it's a point that hasn't been brought up in relation to this article yet. Unfortunately, you ruined the sentence by making the amateur mistake of tacking more words onto the end.
"and hope for people respond now, should they." This does not make sense. The big problem I have is that it doesn't make sense in a number of ways. In the original article, the author states that the reporter was shocked that the Wii "was not causing weight loss". This is incorrect within the context of the story, so I can quickly edit it in my head to remove the offending "not" without getting too bent out of shape. To alter the second half of your sentence into something that makes sense, I need to make a far greater number of corrections; "and hope for people [to] respond[.] [N]ow, should they[?]" My problem is that I have no way of knowing that these corrections are an accurate assessment of what you were trying to convey.
While this is grammatically correct (or at least not grammatically painful), it's a bit cumbersome. For one thing, very few native speakers would use an injection ("Now,") there. This may be my fault, if you perhaps meant that the PS3 and the 360 should offer something that people can't get on the Wii "immediately". Or perhaps you meant that they should hope people respond "immediately". This is ambiguous because of your poor sentence structure.
"I doubt Assasin's creed and RE5 will even touch the wii and it's not even a lost if "similar games" just go straight to the Wii because you will never know what they looked like on the 360/PS3 in the first place."
This is a sentence that doesn't just run-on; it sprints-on. When you say that you think that AC and RE5 won't touch the Wii, do you mean that they won't effect the Wii? Or do you mean that they'll never be ported to the Wii? Or do you mean that games on the Wii would never be able to reach that level? Again, besides the fact that you should have had a period where the "and" is, this doesn't make much sense.
The second part of the sentence is equally unclear. When you say that it wouldn't matter if 'similar games' go straight to the Wii, what do you mean by similar? This part is confusing because you haven't really established why a game like AC or RE5 couldn't "touch the Wii". If I had to guess (and I do, because you didn't see fit to provide me with proper sentences), I would say that you're talking about graphics. This would make your long sentence even more unclear, because I don't understand how a graphically 'similar game' could "touch" the Wii if those two couldn't. Finally, saying that I can't imagine what a low-polygon game would look like with more polygons is stupid, which I think was the argument you were making in the latter part of the sentence.
"It's like saying you lost money on potential sales you never would have made in the first place." Here I have a problem not with sentence structure, but with the underlying logic. A 'potential sale' is a sale that you may or may not make. To say that you would never make a potential sale is to say that it was not, in fact, a potential sale. Furthermore, no one is saying "Nintendo is losing money on potential sales that they aren't getting", they're saying "Nintendo is sacrificing potential profit by not catering to people who care about graphics", which is a much different thing.
Look - it doesn't bother me when people confuse there, their, and they're. It doesn't bother me that you used 'lost' instead of 'loss', or that you didn't capitalize the 'C' in 'Creed'. What bothers me is that you deemed what you had to say important enough to post online, yet not important enough that you could be bothered to ensure that it made linguistic sense. Hell, I'm all for making posts that don't contain a shred of logical thinking - I do it all the time. I only ask that if you're going to do that, make sure that people will be able to read your stupid thoughts without having to rearrange the sentences.
In summation, I think a quote from Aristotle is appropriate; "English motherfucker, do you speak it!?"
siro @ Jan 22nd 2007 4:22AM
@14 (Grunge)
Why doncha stop just Reading posts like this and happy everyone, don't they.
If people have a hard time enunciating their thoughts or don't feel like writing properly (the "the internet is shit, why should I waste my time on correcting my posts" argument/bollocks), these thoughts might just not be worth too much.
laputaquelepario @ Jan 22nd 2007 4:25AM
4: "4. He lost only nine pounds but TWO pants sizes?
How is that possible?"
and 7, for your comment re 4:
Quite possible, actually. It depends on your body type and metabolism. Some people tend to accumulate fat in specific parts of their body. I for one, can be thin all over but build up a raging gut. Other people (are fortunate enough to) lose weight uniformly all over their bodies.
It's like that question: are you a pear-shaped person, or an apple-shaped person?
Oh, and 14, while I do appreciate your editing skills, and your emphasis on proper English usage, you did seem to make a mistake:
"When you say that you think that AC and RE5 won't touch the Wii, do you mean that they won't effect the Wii?"
actually, you should replace "effect" with "affect", as normally you can affect the outcome of something, say, throwing your Wii-mote at the wall will affect your wall's finish; the "effect" is the outcome of the action, which in this case is how the wall was "affected" by the throwing of the Wii-mote.
And just between the two of us, you should quote Julius from Pulp Fiction!
"English motherfucker, do you speak it!?"
"What?"
"Say 'What' one more time, motherfucker! I dare you! I double-dare you!"
Grunge @ Jan 22nd 2007 4:28AM
"Why doncha stop just Reading posts like this and happy everyone, don't they."
Sir, are you trying to upset me? If that was your intention, then you have succeeded admirably.
siro @ Jan 22nd 2007 5:53AM
'course it was. But I meant it. If people write like they didn't finish primary school, I just skip their mouth-shit.
Frank @ Jan 22nd 2007 6:11AM
Yeah NBC 10!
A lurker driven to action @ Jan 22nd 2007 8:10AM
Grunge: when reading your post my mental image was that of a well dressed gentleman with a James Bond like cool calmness enjoying a cup of tea, while all around him various monkeys are flinging feces at each other.
fishamaphone @ Jan 27th 2007 6:02AM
Wait... there's a news anchorwoman named Renee Chenault-Fattah? As in Mahmoud Abbas's Fattah?
Me = Confused.
Mal F4cti0n @ Jan 22nd 2007 9:02AM
Weight! (Just for Grunge, HA!) If he lost nine pounds, why was he so utterly shocked that the Wii was not causing wait (again, for Grunge) loss?
Do you mean something else was causing the weight loss? Did they have an expert come in and say, "Sir, you did not loss weight because of overuse of your Wii, but because of your change in diet."
I am utterly confused. It does not make sense! Please, correct the post.
I can let it go by a retarded eleven year-old poster, but not by a self-named 'journalist', i.e. blogger.
FIX IT, or get off the pot.
georgie @ Jan 22nd 2007 12:06PM
You stay classy San Diego.
justin @ Jan 22nd 2007 12:21PM
Grunge is a giant douche
Defenestrator2.0 @ Jan 22nd 2007 3:31PM
"You stay classy San Diego."
Thanks for stopping by San Diego.
Frankie @ Jan 22nd 2007 4:06PM
@grunge
Would it help if I told that I'm not a native English speaker? I've only been using it as extensively like I do now in the last 3 years. I still have issues to work on but figured I don't have to put much effort on an informal place such as the internet, a gaming message board of all places(no offense, Joystiq)! Relax, dude. I must've struck something for massive damage.
(I understand three languages, and fluent in two completely unrelated language families[Austronesian and Indo-European] so that gives me an excuse to butcher another)
Pete @ Jan 22nd 2007 5:00PM
ahh, yay philly.
@ grunge, its the internet. someone earlier said that the 'internet is shit anyways' or something close to that. hell you should be glad that there arnt that many people who just ignore punctuation all together. i read it fairly well. when someone comes home from school or work, are they really thinking about proper grammar? "OMG i used 'effect' instead of 'affect' im a horrible person." no. who cares, really? if you can read it, then heck does it matter?
retard.
Grunge @ Jan 22nd 2007 11:05PM
That's the thing - I can't understand it. And no, I already said that I don't really care if you get the homophones wrong, or if you use "who" when you should have used "whom" (though I would probably call you on using "whom" where you should have used "who"). I don't care if you don't know that a preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with. I do care if you haven't put enough thought into your post that it's easily comprehensible.
Look at Frankie's second post, where he reveals that he's a non-native speaker (which isn't really a suprise). It's clear and readable, probably because he took the extra five seconds it takes to make sure that a post makes sense. To me, it's a matter of common respect to spend those five seconds. If you don't agree, well, I suppose I should quote Plato; "I may not agree with you, but damned if I don't want to punch you in the face."