This is a real thing.

It’s a Wii game called Baby and Me, and it comes with the creepiest controller peripheral ever – a baby doll.

To play the game, you place the Wiimote into the doll. You can rock the doll to sleep, and if the “baby” is fussy, it will cry through the controller’s speaker. If you have a Wii Fit Balance Board, you can use that to teach the baby how to walk. And, somehow, you can even feed the baby. I’m really not sure how that works, nor am I sure that I want to know.

Is this going to be my main video game of choice until Baby Noah arrives? Can I use a motion-controlled game to give me some training in handling a newborn? As it turns out, the game will only be released in Australia, so I guess I’ll just have to settle with New Super Mario Bros. Wii. (Which, as far as I know, contains no babies, though you never know, Baby Mario could show up in a cameo…)