As of January 8th, Nintendo's Wii fit has sold one million units. Impressive considering its only been out since Dec 1st. The little piece of nintendo hardware that at first glance resembles some sort of weight scale, has joined the ranks of the "zapper" and "nunchuck" to expand the ways in which Wii owners can enjoy there console. Shifting your feet on the Wii fit could affect gameplay in an FPS ("if nintendo made one of high quality beyond metroid).
Since Shigeru Miyamoto unvieled Wii fit on July 11th at E3 I've been wondering about just how many ways I could potentially get excercise from the little piece of hardware. Appearently there are up to 40 ways in which you can excercise via the wii, doing everything from push ups and jogging to yoga poses and tight rope walking. I'm definitly thrilled with the variety.
Nintendo is rolling in cash, no question but when this overweight diet crazed country gets hold of wiifit, nintendo will benjamin laden tp in there restrooms. Here's why. While listening to a jostiq podcast, the point was made that wii is top in hardware but not software. Why aren't Wii or DS games owning in the charts alongside Halo 3 and assasins creed ? The answer it seems is becuase most wii owners which nintendo has labeled "casual gamers", are buying into an experience and not a game console with a library of software to be bought later on. You still have your hard core nintendo fans who buy the top games and spend a few hundred on the good nintendo games and accessories each year but they are a seperate market and by no means the majority. Grandpa bought himself a ds to play brain age and nothing else, is nintendo's problem.
The same people who bought wii for wii sports will jump head over heels for the wiifit when its released here in the states because they want an interactive experience with the wii. Nintendo needs the Wiifit to keep the wii from going in the closet of many a casual gamers home, being labeled last years fad. The wiifit ensures that the majority of overweight americans who want to lose weight can do so in a interactive way that fun and away from the public shaming that is the local gym.
The only question is "will it hold us ?"
- Al3x
Sources: Wikipedia
Gameindustry.biz
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