Nintendo Wins Emmy for Wii and DS

We can now all start adding ‘award winning’ to the word Wii as Nintendo brought home an Emmy Award yesterday at the Technological & Engineering Emmy Awards in Las Vegas for excellence in engineering creativity. Both the Wii’s motion controls and the DS’s touch screen were recognized in the award.”The pioneering interfaces for Wii and Nintendo DS reflect our long tradition of seeking new ways to enhance the gaming experience for users at every level,” said Don James, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of operations. “We’re grateful for this award and thank the academy for honoring us a second time.”

The first time that Mr. James is alluding to is the Emmy Award that Nintendo received last year for the creation of a little thing called the D-pad. If the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is going to giving Emmy’s to Nintendo for all of it’s control innovations it looks like the Big N will have to buy a bigger display case considering they also debuted the rumble feature, the thumb joystick and a plethora of other influential control devices. Not to mention the fact that 2008 will bring Wii Fit onto U.S. shores, delivering yet another control innovation for Nintendo.

Planning To Buy Wii Fit?

As early 2008 grows closer, the release date to Wii Fit also nears. Amongst all the hype of a video game helping you lose weight, and a balance board that just frikkin’ looks cool, we must still wait.

Wii Fit has already been released in Japan and is doing surprisingly well. It has been the number 1 best seller for a couple of weeks now.

Are you waiting for this game, or could you care less about it?

Me? Yea, I’m saving my pennies for it.