The game industry has its share of luminaries: Will Wright (Sims and Spore), Sid Meier (Civilization), Peter Molyneux (Fable). These are designers who not only make visionary and signature games, but ambassadors who can articulate the nuances of their culture and industry to the outside world.
This week, Nintendo's brightest bulb - Shigeru Miyamoto - opens up to the Times about the new Wii Fit, and the future hybrid of virtual and real exercise.
“Spending too long, staying in and playing any video game is not good,” he says, “I always tell my children to get out on a sunny day and I, myself, went jogging in Central Park yesterday. But I do my stretching on Wii Fit. They work together.”
