
Who Cares?
Nintendo certainly don't. There are enough stupid consumers that still spend money and that's all that matters for them at the end of the day.
Another shocker:
Wii Fit does not make you fitter either...
A BBC TV pop science programme has debunked the notion that brain training games make you smarter - with the help of thousands of viewers. Brain Test Britain was launched by Bang goes the Theory on BBC Lab UK last September, to find out if brain training has knock-on benefits for memory, planning and problem-solving. Some 67, …
Crosswords test the vocabulary, and have the capacity to increase its extent if you're intent on completing them; solving a Sudoku can touch on search trees and proof by contradiction (if you avoid the lowbrow newspapers that only publish the ones you can do in a few minutes).
Whether you get any transferrable skill out of that is, as the quote implies, debatable - but "aren't really useful"? As a commuter with regular time to kill by the end of the newspaper -and doubtless not the only one- I simply must beg to differ ;)