Trainer Sues Nintendo Over Wii Fit
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 03:08 PM
A California fitness trainer is suing the video game company Nintendo and asking it to pull its Wii Fit games from shelves saying it is "contributing to the epidemic of obesity."
According to Nintendo, by playing the Wii Fit game users can "work towards personal goals of better health and fitness." But Michael Torchia disagrees and says the gamemaker needs to place a warning on the games which say they are for entertainment, not fitness.
Torchia says that in addition to a lack of actual fitness from the game, many users are actually injuring themselves.
"Not only are people getting injured due to a lack of instruction, they are also developing improper stroke patterns from long-term use of the sports games which can potentially [affect] their ability to excel in those specific activities later in life," he said.
Although he does not name the firm, Torchia says he has retained a prominent Beverly Hills law firm to handle his case.
The Wii Fit game has been very popular for Nintendo with company president Satoru Iwata announcing at the end of January that it had sold almost 300,000 copies of the game in the U.S. in one week alone.
What a fucking attention whore.
