So I was wandering through a large UK bookstore chain earlier this week when I came across this display (apologies for the quality this was from my phone):

A Nintendo DS display case.  Selling Nintendo’s in a bookstore?  The games on offer here are mainly brain training, classic games, and cooking games.  No Zelda, Mario, or anything else of the sort, just educational entertainment and non-games.  I did notice how the 100 Classic Book Collection title was absent.

Reading books is an activity widely accepted to help further one’s intelligence while playing video games has generally been regarded as a method to waste one’s life away.  To me, this is a huge step forward for video games to become part of mainstream culture and general lifestyle.

Well done Nintendo, you are helping make books an obsolete media and having the bookstores realize it and cash in on the Nintendo Money Train.  Now can we get a game that is not a platformer, RPG, or strategy game for my DS?  And I don’t want any more brain training, cook books, or anything of that sort.