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Nintendo’s Wii U Announcement Trailer was insane

Nintendo unveiled their new Wii last night. It’s basically a more powerful Wii with a controller that has a camera and a big touchscreen on it.

In their announcement trailer, they briefly showed how two people can video chat with the controller. Their demo went like this:

Girl: (to guy on Wii controller screen) “Want to go cycling?”

Guy (to girl on his Wii controller screen): “Cycling, that sounds awesome!”

Girl, grabbing her dog for some reason: “Basket! Lowest lie low.” (Seriously, this is unintelligible.)

Guy, petting the image of her dog with his fingers: “Oh, Daffy, are you okay?” (I’m guessing. No idea what he’s saying here.)

Girl: “Bye!”

(You can watch it here if you want.)

Pretty standard conceptual video, right? It’s just two people using a new Thing You Should Buy, in a setting we can all relate to! Who doesn’t call up their friends to talk about cycling and then hug a dog? How relatable!

And yet, the demo didn’t sit right with me. I have so many questions.

If they just agreed to go cycling, why did that girl pull her dog into view? Are the girl and the guy still going cycling or what?

How come they both started speaking in tongues as soon as she grabbed her dog? Is her dog magic? Or did they both start talking gibberish because they were having strokes?

Does the new Nintendo console give you strokes? If so, are the strokes free or do you have to buy some sort of add-on for the strokes?

But most of all, I suppose my biggest question is why did that guy try to pet the dog using the touchscreen? You see him rubbing his fingers on the image of that confused dog and instead of marveling at this wonderful new piece of technology all I can think is “Clearly this new Nintendo console is only for crazy people.”