Nintendo somehow tricked over thirty million people into buying a highly expensive plastic bathroom scale by branding it as a Wii Fit balance board and convincing them that…

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Nintendo somehow tricked over thirty million people into buying a highly expensive plastic bathroom scale by branding it as a Wii Fit balance board and convincing them that standing on it was a revolutionary gaming experience; the sheer genius of disguising a depressing piece of exercise equipment as a fun video game peripheral resulted in millions of living rooms hosting a device that actively mocked players for their body mass index via an adorable animated character; families actually spent real money to have a digital yoga instructor passive-aggressively critique their posture in high definition while they struggled to ski jump in their pajamas, remaining the ultimate scam of the late two thousands that Nintendo successfully gamified the deeply tragic act of weighing yourself and made an absolute fortune doing it