E3: Wii Fit announced News
News by Kristan Reed
Nintendo is hoping to turn all you couch potato gamers into fitness freaks soon, with the debut showing of forthcoming title Wii Fit.
Shown off today to a packed audience at its E3 press conference in Los Angeles, the 'game', if you can call it that, features four genres of activities - aerobics, muscle conditioning, yoga poses, and balance games.
In all, Nintendo confirmed there will be over 40 activities in Wii Fit, and Nintendo boasted that the title "takes our big leads in audience expansion and effectively laps the competition."
The game will ship with what Nintendo calls the 'Wii Balance Board'. Looking like "some sort of step," according to our man on the scene, the wireless peripheral will be able to measure weight, how your balance shifts as you're standing on it, and will be "a new interface for games that accepts full-body movement as input."
In terms of the kind of exercises you'll be doing, we saw people swinging their legs back and forward, press-ups, head-to-head football heading sessions, step aerobics, stretches, hula hoops and many more.
Although a confirmed release date remained elusive, we're expecting this one to ship in 2008. We hope to delight you with a proper hands-on with Wii Fit during the course of the show - and hopefully some filmed evidence...
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el_pollo_diablo
11/07/07 @ 17:52
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What a scandal this is.
They should have saved the 'Wiifit' name for a game about putting together police photofits of terrorists and rapists. |
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The Bodybuilder
11/07/07 @ 18:06
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As someone who works in the sports performance field, I have an instant disdain for this game.
Any game that markets yoga, "aerobics" and "balance training" (ugh) is just selling scientifically ineffective methods to the hapless masses. I hate this crap in real life. Certainly won't like it in a game. Although, I do understand that it's "just a game", but that's like saying brain training is just "a quiz game". |
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I have to say I'm somewhat amused by peoples feedback to this - I reckon it'll be a huge hit an expand their audience considerably ... imho its NOT meant to appeal to hardcore gamers chaps, its people like my sister in law who got a Wii because it sounded less geeky than a normal console who will buy it and love it ...
(and yes she's one of the people purchasing the plastic remote casings for the wii controllers that look like golf sticks etc. ...) |
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The Balance Board seems to be an enormous "hate it or love it" item. I love it, I think it will sell great and it will add more dimensions to games. Assuming more games will use it.
Do you know how the Segway works? You lean forward and that's the way you move. Games can do that with the Balance Board. It's one step closer to virtual reality. |
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I actually meant fit in the traditional sense of the word; vain bastards ;P
But yeah, if you are fit and already have some kind of method to stay that way (or unfit and couldn't give a toss) then obviously the appeal of Wii Fit will be dampened. Personally I've started going out of shape a bit lately and something like this might have enough appeal to keep me motivated fitness wise. Remember the guy who did a Wii Sports 40 day fitness challenge? This would be even better; Wii Sports only really focuses on your upper body, shoulders and arms. I feel there's a lot of resistance from us gamers with the Wii and Nintendo's approach. Like 'OMG keep this crappy lifestyle stuff away, its a GAMES console'. I was the same at first, having bought the Wii for games; however I'm warming to other things now. Still underwhelmed from a gaming perspective though. |
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This was never going to go down well on a 'hardcore' gaming forum was it, same with most of the Wii output really. Still, they seem to be onto a winner so I can't see why it's a big issue. If the Wii was lagging behind and not selling out as soon as they hit the shelves people might have a valid point.
It's the early days of the DS: part two. |
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HelloWorld
12/07/07 @ 13:54
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I've seen the pictures. I think those people should be wearing socks at least. The poor Dad is going to get verukas on his hands.
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