For many gamers Obama’s comment at a speech he gave to the American Medical Assoiciation came as a shot across the bow. He urged parents to ‘raise {their} children to step away from the video games and spend more time playing outside’. Many gamers mistook this as an attack against our beloved hobby instead of the simple call to abandon the sedentary lifestyle that is so widespread in the USA.

While the thousands upon thousands of forum comments go relatively unnoticed except by those forumgoers, an industry bigwig has sent forth an answering salvo. Peter Moore, president of EA sports has tongue-in-cheekly suggested that if Obama gave EA Sports Active a try, he’d be revising his opinion of how health-friendly video games can be: “Try EA Sports Active and I guarantee you’ll need aides saying “Yes you can” to finish your first workout,” said Moore in his blog. While it’d make an incredibly amusing press event to see Moore and Obama square off to see who could outlast the other in a Wii competition I’m guessing the president has more important things to do with his time.