In a sign that the video game craze may be getting out of hand, Nintendo will begin offering a free Associated Press news feed to its new Wii gaming platform.

Who is going to read it? Playing video games while trying to pay attention to the news is probably hard. Maybe impossible. It also may lower you game scores.

Wii users tend to be fairly young. Their interest in a hard news feed is probably limited. Or, it may not exist at all. It is hard to see how this will give the Wii any edge of Microsoft’s (MSFT) Xbox or the Sony PS3. But, perhaps those two platforms can offer the CBS Evening News.

File it under things that we don’t need to know and that won’t work.

Douglas A. McIntyre