A closer look
Nintendo's Wii Sports caused such an aggressive spike in household property damage and physical injuries that medical journals literally coined the term 'Wiiitis' to describe the phenomenon. Because non-gamers lacked any fundamental understanding of how digital motion controls actually worked, millions of suburban parents forcefully hurled their remotes through expensive flat-screen televisions while enthusiastically trying to bowl a virtual strike. Doctors reported a massive influx of patients suffering from severe tennis elbow and dislocated shoulders, entirely sustained by aggressively swinging at pixelated tennis balls in their own living rooms. Nintendo eventually had to issue massive warnings and redesign their wrist straps with thicker cords, just to legally protect themselves from a global epidemic of middle-aged people destroying their rotator cuffs in a desperate bid to beat their grandmother at virtual golf
