Now, you could make fun of the new partnership between Nintendo and sports retailer Sports Authority, but by doing so you’d be completely missing the point. Best just keep that ignorance quiet for now.

This is random Saturday where we present you with a random picture and your goal is to give it a funny caption or title. So would you kindly give this picture a caption?

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Halo, GTA and other kill them before they kill you fare may boast an aggressive, testosterone-laden affair, but in reality the experience is skin deep. Real men and women play Wii Fit, it seems, and the sales confirm that in spades.

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Coming Fall 2009. Bundled with the Wii Balance Board, or sold as seperate software.

Looking for the new trend in video game technology? Look at cameras.  Nintendo’s latest hand held revision, the DSi, has a camera.  Microsoft hopes to change the industry with it’s 3D motion tracking “Natal” camera for the Xbox 360 – and fitness games? You guessed it: Camera.

According to Ubisoft, the fitness game market has seen more growth in the past year than any other genre of video games – and there is room for more.  After dismissing the balance board as unnecessary in their E3 press conference, Ubisoft staff introduced Your Shape as the next big innovation in fitness video games – and they might be on to something.

Like Ubisoft’s last major fitness title, My Fitness Coach, Your Shape focuses on exercise routines that rely on your own motivation to get up and move rather than controller driven gameplay, creating a experience similar to an interactive exercise video than a video game.  The gimmick however, is that Your Shape comes with a USB camera device.
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