The Horror: Life-Like Baby Made Into Wii Controller

Halloween's not over yet, folks. Nintendo ups the creepy game applications with a crying Wiimote-powered doll

By Jeremy Hsu Posted 11.02.2009 at 3:00 pm 7 Comments

Wii Baby Kiiiiddies … come out and playyyyyy! Nintendo

People who hate creepy kids and Halloween aren't out of the woods yet. A new Wii-exclusive Baby and Me arrives just in time for the holiday season, so that every Nintendo-loving household can stick a wiimote in an anatomically correct doll's back to rock it lovingly via accelerometer and hear its gurgles, giggles and wails through a tinny Wiimote speaker.

The game uses motion control to create 18 game modes that include the usual feeding, coddling and playing activities which keep hordes of zombie-like parents awake long into the wee hours. There's even balance board support for rocking this Rosemary's baby to sleep, burping it, or teaching it to walk. Note: if nothing else, we would definitely advise against teaching the terrifying tot to walk.

But that's not all. Kids who rock their Wii babies will also see themselves rocking a virtual baby on-screen in Baby and Me--after all, why not throw in some Ringu style horror elements?

The game even comes with a holster that allows players to attach the Wiimote to everything from household appliances to pets. That prospect alone seems more disturbing than any prior Wii applications, including the Wii saddle and using the Wiimote to practice home CPR.

Anyway, you've been warned. The doll arrives on store shelves November 10.

[Aussie Nintendo via Kotaku]

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chieffranky

11/02/09 at 4:00 pm

The first thing I want to do is strap that bugger to my large cat and scare the neighbors.

...but really, I understand the need for games to appeal more to a larger crowd, but being an old school gamer, this truly hurts my heart. It's not so much a video game as an interactive TV doll... or something that doesn't make me want to scratch my eyes out.

However, recreating the doll to look like Link could lead to some interesting youtube videos. That or the little girl from said horror movie. [ringu]

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jessicowhite

11/02/09 at 5:14 pm

AH, what to say about this. First thing is how about we get the kids away from the tv and outside playing. Second, is this going to be required for new parents in training classes cause im not having kids then.

Maybe they can make a Daddy and Me game for kids that dont have fathers. Just an idea.

I not sure im for or against this. Its just creepy.

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lreid

11/02/09 at 8:10 pm

I don't like this idea. They should make the baby constantly cry to sway kids from making baby after baby.

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Oakspar77777

11/03/09 at 8:48 am

Until the control causes it to crap a green paste that smells like what grows between gandama's rolls of skin fermented for ten years and spread on toast, this will be nothing like caring for a real baby.

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TSK

11/07/09 at 12:29 pm

If it crys can we shake it to shut it up?

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Yeow95

11/09/09 at 6:26 am

good one TSK lol
really nintendo...you're trying to put a realistic barbie barbie on the wii? even though the wii vitality sensor (that thing they put on your finger is a upcoming official Nintendo accessory for the wii) and the "wii bike" are coming out? -_- WHERE'S THE Wii 2.0 (HD) or Wii Camera?!

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TIMGG

11/09/09 at 11:23 am

Ireid- veeerrryy funny (not sarcastic)
Yeow- good point. they could have put similar tech to better use with a REAL trainer for CPR (see related articles). instead of making new stupid things, they could concentrate on Wii 2.0 with better processors and actually getting Wii sports & Wii sports resort correct. the golf, for one, is pathetic.