Nintendo Wii, emotions and cognitive fidelity

Jon­ah Lehrer from the Frontal Cor­tex blog has writ­ten a good arti­cle on the Nin­ten­do Wii, William James and Anto­nio Dama­sio over at seedmagazine.com, How the Nin­ten­do Wii will get you emo­tion­al­ly invest­ed in video games.

A cou­ple of quotes

- While Sony and Microsoft exer­cise your thumbs, Nin­ten­do gives you a full body workout. 

- “This is the irony of the Wii: although it can’t com­pete with the visu­al real­ism of Sony and Microsoft, it ends up feel­ing much more real­is­tic.”

In a dif­fer­ent con­text, but it reminds me of our con­ver­sa­tion with Prof. Gopher about the need for cog­ni­tive fideli­ty in Brain Fit­ness Programs.

Alvaro