My store sold $2k of Wii Fit within 60 minutes TODAY... 6 days after its release

[The Fake Shemp]

Wii is juggernaut.  Hardcore gaming is over.  I moved more copies of Wii Ski this week than Metal Gear Solid 4 reservations!

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Wii is juggernaut.  Hardcore gaming is over.  I moved more copies of Wii Ski this week than Metal Gear Solid 4 reservations!

[Beezy]

Willco, how much will I get for trading in GTA4 without an edge card?

[The Fake Shemp]

$35

[Beezy]

Thanks. That's good enough I guess. I'll be trading it in for Ninja Gaiden II next week.

[Phoenix Dark]

What type of people are walking in and buying the game? Older people, adults with their kids, etc?

[MCD]

game over

[The Fake Shemp]

Everybody.  Women, men.  Children, adults.  Men, women.  Very broad demographic.

That's why it's so difficult to get and something consumers have failed to understand in their frustration to get Wii hardware.  Before, to nab a system, you just had to compete against the early adopters and peak Christmas rush.  But the demographic for modern videogame units is much more narrow than that of the Wii.  You're not just in competition with males between the ages of 12 - 28, but children, the elderly, females, boys, etc.

[MrAngryFace]

Haha, oh overweight people looking for a fun ez way to lose weight.

The ugly truth: If youre overweight exercise will probably not be fun; if it is fun, its probably not exercise. In fact it really isnt fun until youre in shape. Not to mention the DIETARY changes. I really wish people were smarter.

[Van Cruncheon]

americans love their weight-loss delusions

[Rman]

americans love their weight-loss delusions

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[Tieno]

[cool breeze]

americans love their weight-loss delusions

Wii fit doesn't directly help you lose weight, it simply tells you that you are obese so you are full of guilt and realize that maybe you should do something about it.  The sad part is that if you need a video game to tell you that you are fat, maybe you loosing weight is the least of your problems.

[MrAngryFace]

Yeah but its very clear a lot of people think its a one stop fix, when at most its something you can do when there's a typhoon outside

[The Fake Shemp]

Nobody knows the GameDays sale SKUs.  Probably won't know 'till June 1st.

[The Fake Shemp]

GameDays sales are usually never deals on good shit.  Mostly shovelware, Sega crap (same thing lol) and the like.

[Grecco]

Wii Fit is pretty awesome.

[pilonv1]

EB Australia's midyear sale is awesome, 50% off Lost Odyssey, Scene It! and other random junk

[EmCeeGrammar]

How many units are you getting per shipment? How often are shipments?

[recursivelyenumerable]

I recommend the "not having any money to buy food and having to walk everywhere carrying heavy bags" diet, it's worked wonders for me!

[Joe Molotov]

I moved more copies of Wii Ski this week than Metal Gear Solid 4 reservations!

My local Best Buy was sold out of Wii Fit, We Ski, and balance board carrying cases today. 

[EmCeeGrammar]

I recommend the "not having any money to buy food and having to walk everywhere carrying heavy bags" diet, it's worked wonders for me!

Me too! Being poor is the best weight loss plan!

[MrAngryFace]

poor people actually tend to be overweight due to the amount of cheap food out there thats bad for you.

I think you guys fit in the 'cant even buy the cheap food thats bad for you' group

[recursivelyenumerable]

nah, it's that being currently poor + having been raised upper-middle-class by parents with advanced degrees = too snobby to eat the cheap food that's bad for me

[Scurvy Stan]

I find not eating at all is much more effective than wiifit.

[Phoenix Dark]

Haha, oh overweight people looking for a fun ez way to lose weight.

The ugly truth: If youre overweight exercise will probably not be fun; if it is fun, its probably not exercise. In fact it really isnt fun until youre in shape. Not to mention the DIETARY changes. I really wish people were smarter.

it's not exercise unless you feel the burn. wii sports is just something uncle bob can do to loosen up his legs before he heads out to KFC.

gotta love the GAFFERs who never considered exercising until Nintendo turned it into a "game".

BOW FLEX>>>>>>>WI SPORTS YA LAZY BUMS

[Eric P]

my dad wanted wii fit when he didn't even have a wii

he got the wii, but not the fit.

and he's not fat.  so i dunno

[Van Cruncheon]

people are buying a wii and wii fit simply to tell folks they bought it and are thus potentially not fatty mcfatties

nintendo: now preying on america's collective weight insecurity

hey fattyfats: get out of my hobby, and take the nintendo fanboys with you

[Van Cruncheon]

good point, i am ashamed to have missed this

[Beezy]

hey fattyfats: get out of my hobby, and take the nintendo fanboys with you

That's redundant, Prole. smh

[tiesto]

hey fattyfats: get out of my hobby, and take the nintendo fanboys with you

That's redundant, Prole. smh

I've always pictured the Nintendo fan as being anorexically skinny and emo/hipsterish... while the fatties were the PC gamers or Xbox fanboys.

[brawndolicious]

hey fattyfats: get out of my hobby, and take the nintendo fanboys with you

That's redundant, Prole. smh

I've always pictured the Nintendo fan as being anorexically skinny and emo/hipsterish... while the fatties were the PC gamers or Xbox fanboys.

Exactly!