Official Wii Fit Thread of Fitness and Gaming

[Crushed]

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NINTENDO NEWS: WII FIT TO KEEP AMERICANS MOVING AT $89.99 MSRP

April 15, 2008
In anticipation of the U.S. launch of Wii Fit™, the new interactive fitness game for the popular Wii™ system, Nintendo of America Inc. has announced pricing details for this groundbreaking release. Available at Nintendo World store starting on May 19, Wii Fit and the innovative Wii Balance Board™ accessory will be bundled and sold together at a suggested retail price of $89.99.

Boasting a dynamic mix of more than 40 yoga, aerobics, strength training and balance activities, Wii Fit provides consumers with a fun, easy and affordable way to incorporate exercise into their daily routines. Using the included wireless Wii Balance Board accessory, every member of the household can step up and stay active, setting individual fitness goals and tracking their progress over time.

Consumers in the New York area who pre-order Wii Fit from the Nintendo World store in Rockefeller Plaza will receive a special bonus item. From April 18-20, the first 1,000 consumers who place a $5 deposit for Wii Fit will receive a limited edition Wii Fit T-shirt featuring the image and reproduced autograph of legendary Nintendo video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.

Through mid-February, Wii Fit had sold more than 1.4 million copies in Japan since its Dec. 1, 2007 launch. For more information about Wii Fit, please visit www.WiiFit.com.

KEY INFORMATION
Step onto the Wii Balance Board and into a fun way to get fit.

    * Control on-screen action with your movements on the balance board as you work your way through a variety of challenges aimed at getting you off the couch and into the action. Check your Body Mass Index (BMI), see your Wii Fit Age and keep tabs on your daily progress towards a more fit you.
    * Get fit with more than 40 activities and exercises, including strength training, aerobics, yoga and balance games. Whether you're doing a yoga pose or snowboarding down a slalom course, there's an activity for everyone.
    * Challenge your family and friends to get in shape! Create your own personal profile and set goals, test your balance, track your progress with daily workouts and unlock new exercises and activities.

Create a Profile: Before you jump into doing exercises and activities, you'll start by creating your own profile. Choose a Mii, enter your height and age information, and do a few quick tests:

    * BMI Check: BMI, or Body Mass Index, is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that is the standard used by agencies such as the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Health. To check your BMI, you'll enter your height then stand on the Wii Balance Board and let it read your weight.
    * Wii Fit Age: After you've checked your BMI, you'll do a basic balance test and find out your current Wii Fit Age. This basic balance test measures how well you can control your left and right balance. Based on the results, you'll be assigned a Wii Fit Age.

Categories: Wii Fit features four main categories to choose from: Strength Training, Aerobics, Yoga and Balance Games. As you spend time exercising, you'll earn Fit Credits that unlock additional exercises and activities within these categories. Wii Fit also tracks the activities you do the most and puts them into the Favorites category.

    * Strength Training: Put your strength to the test with muscle-toning exercises like Single Leg Extension, Sideways Leg Lift, Arm and Leg Lift, Single-Arm Stand, Torso Twists, Rowing Squat, Single Leg Twist, Lunge, Push-Up and Side Plank, Jackknife, Plank and Tricep Extension. Challenges include Push-Up Challenge, Plank Challenge and Jackknife Challenge.
    * Aerobics: Get your heart pumping with fun, interactive Aerobic exercises like Hula Hoop®, Basic Step, Basic Run, Super Hula Hoop, Advanced Step, 2-P Run, Rhythm Boxing, Free Step and Free Run.
    * Yoga: Work on your balance and flexibility with Yoga poses and activities like Deep Breathing, Half-Moon, Dance, Cobra, Bridge, Spinal Twist, Shoulder Stand, Warrior, Tree, Sun Salutation, Standing Knee, Palm Tree, Chair, Triangle and Downward-Facing Dog.
    * Balance Games: Get into the action with fun, balanced-based games like Soccer Heading, Ski Slalom, Ski Jump, Table Tilt, Tightrope Walk, Balance Bubble, Penguin Slide, Snowboard Slalom and Lotus Focus.

Tracking Results:

    * Keep tabs on your daily progress with easy-to-understand graphs and charts. Using your personal profile, you can set goals, view a graph of your BMI results over time, see how many Fit Credits you've earned, check your Wii Fit Age and even enter exercise time you've done outside of Wii Fit. It's all about coming back and exercising a little every day, and the personal profile makes tracking your daily progress simple and easy.
    * You can quickly check your Wii Fit Age and BMI without even putting the game in the console by going directly to the Wii Fit Channel.
    * Up to eight family members can create their own profiles in Wii Fit. On the profile-selection screen, everyone in the family can see each other's recent BMI progress and Fit Credit total. This will allow families to have a friendly competition to exercise and get fit.

DISCUSS WII FIT, THE PROTOTYPE OF TRUE NEW-GEN(TM) VIDEOGAMING

[Crushed]

smh

hideos graphics

CRYsis am CRY

[y2kev]

I really don't understand why you just wouldn't start running. :\

[Crushed]

I really don't understand why you just wouldn't start running. :\

Some people require bright lights and air conditioning for their running.


Also, they fear the outdoors, which are known to harbor bears.

[Lexmd]

Why is this on the Gaming Forum?   

Move to Real Talk, plz.

[bork]

Why is this on the Gaming Forum?   

Move to Real Talk, plz.

 

You don't need to make banners here, Crushed.  But by all means go right ahead if you feel like it.  There was already a Wii Fit thread here in December.  I am ashamed to say (although not surprised) that I haven't touched Wii Fit in months.  But that story about the guy who lost 10 pounds in seven weeks has me motivated.

[evilol]

it will be just like brain training; buy it, use for a month and never touch it again yet im still gonna buy it. sigh

[Crushed]

You don't need to make banners here, Crushed.  But by all means go right ahead if you feel like it.

It was a joke. 

[Mupepe]

I really don't understand why you just wouldn't start running. :\

Some people require bright lights and air conditioning for their running.


Also, they fear the outdoors, which are known to harbor bears.

Indoor gym?

[Rman]

Two gym memberships?

[tiesto]

Game looks more fun to me than GTA IV 

[hyp]

the future of "gaming" is upon us.

[Grecco]

I really don't understand why you just wouldn't start running. :\

I Really dont understand why you just cant do both.

[hyp]

running is cheaper? 

[y2kev]

And actually works?

I'm sure Wii Fit is a ton of fun and might help you lose 10 pounds, but honestly suggesting it can really help you become fit is sort of weird. I'm not even strictly talking about weight loss. I don't really see anything Wii Fit itself would help you do to "get fit" that you can't do cheaper or better on your own, except for the stat tracking stuff...but it seems to use BMI. Although you can switch it to show weight, that would imply you expect it to help you lose a lot of weight and we're back to step 1.

Though I think the yoga stuff looks cool. I'd buy a more serious fitness game if one was ever made. I don't know what kind of capacity games have to do this though.

edit: I am not even accusing it of being a nongame so i don't even care about that

[BlueTsunami]

running is cheaper? 

And you'll lose Fat quicker. Do HIIT people and don't waste your time with this!

[AdmiralViscen]

Actually kev, I bet it's not fun at all.

[hyp]

it'd be more fun having someone throw tennis balls at you while you dodged 'em.  at least you could throw them back if you got pissed.

[y2kev]

If people have fun, what's the problem?  You'll certainly burn more calories doing this than playing GTA or SSHD or Brain Training etc.  For those that find no personal utility or entertainment...that's cool, but why shit on the fun and potential motivation for other people?

Well, yeah, but if the object of those games was to burn calories (and it did it poorly), then people would be all pissed off about that too.

[AdmiralViscen]

I'm not shitting on it. I thought it had potential when I first saw it. Now I'm not really seeing the point. Especially at $90.

[The Fake Shemp]

Dude, Americans swear to losing weight thanks to Wii Sports - Wii Fit will be the holy grail to them.  I'm not kidding.  Sure, you could lose more weight faster and cheaper by doing other alternatives, but it's not like any of these people were going to do that in the first place!

[Bildi]

I've actually been looking forward to this for the last week or two (I've gone to the gym for years and also walk my dog every day so piss off).

But I shudder to think what the PAL pricing might be.  I may end up having to wait for some pretty serious price drops.

Fake edit: Ok, it's launching at USD$138 in Australia. 

..... 

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Though I think the yoga stuff looks cool. I'd buy a more serious fitness game if one was ever made. I don't know what kind of capacity games have to do this though.

http://www.yourselffitness.com/

Yourself! Fitness >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Wii Fart

[hyp]

KILLER APPPPPP

[pilonv1]

get this shit out of here

[Crushed]

Eurogamer review 8/10

Wii Fit > DMC4 > Assassin's Creed Definitive Edition

[MCD]

soon, 360 and ps3 will have one too.

[pilonv1]

Eurogamer review 8/10

Wii Fit > DMC4 > Assassin's Creed Definitive Edition

reviewed by a woman, of course she's going to love wii fit

[Crushed]

Wii Fit is now out in Europe, sells 90 copies per minute.
 

All hail the savior of videogaming.

[Don Flamenco]

344,345...346! 

OMFG!! WII FIT ONLY RUNS AT 346P!!!  YOU'RE MISSING OUT ON 134P!! DON'T LET NINTENDO GET AWAY WITH THIS! VOTE WITH YOUR DOL---

Wii Fit is now out in Europe, sells 90 copies per minute.
 

aw fuck

[Crushed]

I count 459p, only 21 missing p's, a good trade off for such incredible gameplay.








Just looking at it makes me all sweaty. 

[Don Flamenco]

I count 459p, only 21 missing p's, a good trade off for such incredible gameplay.

The other 21p went into the processing the jiggle physics on the girl, right...right?!

[The Fake Shemp]

I made a joke that Wii Fit looks great with anything from Ikea and this guy said, "Oh my God, I have all Ikea furniture!" and he pre-ordered one.

[drew]

I made a joke that Wii Fit looks great with anything from Ikea and this guy said, "Oh my God, I have all Ikea furniture!" and he pre-ordered one.

He's probably a gaffer and has a picture in the setup thread. 

[Crushed]

This is atrocious. Does calculating the WiiFit board readings takes so much Wii power that it doesn't have any left for textures?

Graphically this looks like Gunship 2000 on the Amiga.

Holy shit, you're right. 

[Joe Molotov]

Day 1, bitches.

[AdmiralViscen]

What a piece of shit.

[Madrun Badrun]

Her boobs look off.   In a sexy way.  Will buy. 

[Crushed]

oh shit even gs' fatasses give it a 7.0, goty confrimed

[Flannel Boy]

I'll go jog in the park instead. Maybe I'll even spot Himuro.

[demi]

YOU GUYS JUST DONT UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!!!!! YOU HAVE FUN WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WITH FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I PLAYED IT FOR FOUR HOURS

[Yeti]

$90, that's way more expensive than I was thinking it would be.

[abrader]

soon, 360 and ps3 will have one too.

PS2 has Eye Toy Kinetic.

Im actually prolly gonna get this. I need some good cardio and the scale/weight tracking feature is cool.

Eye Toy Kinetic use to kick my ass

[CajoleJuice]

Why are video game sites even reviewing this?