've been creating a few demos of Flash games designed for the Nintendo Wii Opera browser, and writing a few blog entries about the process for the past few months. I even convinced the people at my Day Job to create a section highlighting all the games we currently offer that can be played reasonably well with a Wii-mote. I jumped on the Wii Opera Browser very early. The day it was released to beta on Dec. 24th I pushed this demo live for my first test with my Wii. Most of developer friends, the ones lucky enough to own a Wii, have all connected to the internet through WiiConnect24, shared Miis, used Opera, etc.

However, a thought struck me today that I cannot shake. It was spawned over the weekend when I talked to my brother-in-law, another happy Wii owner. My brother-in-law is a construction contractor. He spends his days building actual houses for people, and is as far from spending his days with his ass planted in chair looking at camputer screen as I am close to it. He bought the Wii to play Wii Sports with his wife and kids. That's it...