Celebrating “creative activities and the development of media arts” from games to animation to web design, the Japan Media Arts Festival has announced that Wii Fit has topped the list of its game entrants.
The organization says it recognized the game for “[broadening] the appeal of a device that tends to be thought of as a boy’s toy, turning it into a family communication tool; we can see in it a glimpse of the future of video games.”
Nintendo’s game beat out other entrants like Devil May Cry 4, PixelJunk Eden, Pokémon Platinum, echochrome, and augmented reality cube puzzle levelHead, but ultimately — and very fairly — was bested by Electroplankton creator Toshio Iwai’s electronic instrument Tenori-On.
2008 [12th] Japan Media Arts Festival | List of Award-winning Works [via Siliconera]
