Wii has been showing up on TV advertisements the last few days. Having never owned, that I can remember, a home video game, I have always had trouble understanding the attraction. This Wii commercial just causes more confusion. There are people, not just teenagers or younger, standing in front of a television moving around oddly.

According to Gamasutra, the official Wii website explains; "the new name for the console "represents the answer", and "will break down that wall that separates video game players from everybody else." I couldn't find the claim on the official Wii website, but then I don't have the patience to peruse all their information.

Apparently some video game players find Wii so exciting, it is creating a problem with the wireless remote. "Legendary Nintendo producer Shigeru Miyamoto also commented on the problem, saying: "We are encouraging people to understand that you really don't have to be so excited, but rather you need to understand the control and then you're going to be the best player. We are looking into the situation to see if there are additional methods to encourage people to kind of calm down so they would never throw away the controller itself."

Some gamers are so excited when they play Wii, there are "Reports of users breaking the straps during more excited bouts of play emerged immediately after the console’s launch, with stories of remotes slipping from hands and smashing into televisions, furniture and even fellow players’ faces."

I suppose Nintendo has not closed the gap completely. I still don't see the attraction.

Be careful out there.