Okay I'm not expressing my opinion on this little jab EA is taking at Nintendo

But this post was funny as Hell

Edit: No wait you used it to make fun of Bobbuffalo

That isn't very funny anymore

On what grounds?

Hmm... first thing that comes to my mind is misuse of trademark? Both Nintendo and Wii are registered to Nintendo, and EA's assumingly unauthorized use of these would give Nintendo some legal ground to take action. I'd love to see that myself.

This falls quite squarely under the parody defense.

i doubt nintendo would care anyway. but there is probably a loop hole in parody and fair use acts.

I'm a Nintendo only owner and I'm not pissed. In fact, after the check thing I checked out the game and was very interested in it - exactly what they were going for.  Obviously, I won't be there buying it first day, however, if it turns out to be a good game, and if I was interested in playing it, I might buy it as a gift for my cousin or my brother in law.

I'd assume a great number of those who were laughing either have no intention of ever buying a wii, or they already have a wii. Someone on the fence isn't going to use a fake game to decide whether or not they want a console, again an assumption being made here, they'll use what games are on the wii to decide whether or not they want to buy a wii.

At this point EA appears to be needing Nintendo more than Nintendo needs EA. If EA didn't discuss the idea of doing this with Nintendo, I'd say it was foolish on their part.  However, Nintendo shouldn't stiffly rebuke them if they hadn't - we all know what happened the last time Nintendo was harsh towards 3rd parties.

Oh, there are several, at least one of which may apply here. Sadly, the case law is somewhat unclear when it comes to using parody to advertise, so it may come down to luck of the draw. And Nintendo makes a habit of suing people over things they shouldn't. Still, I doubt they will here, as courting third-parties is their new flavor of the month.

Now, if Yamauchi were still in charge...

In my humble and correct opinion, they weren't mocking the Wii as much as they were mocking all the 3rd party garbage found on Wii. Even EA has released garbage on the Wii.

You Wii fans need to chillax.

Ironically the fake game if actually developed and rleleased might have sold more than the real games it was jokingly designed to promote.