Shigeru Miyamoto has said that Wii Fit isn't really meant to make you fit (as the title suggests). It won't give you a six pack or help you finish a marathon. He says it's only going to make you more aware of your body. And that's a good thing.Speaking to Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata about the ideas surrounding the creation of Wii Fit, Miyamoto said, "I think it's important to make discoveries like this about yourself. I forgot to mention ... » Read More

Developers for recent and upcoming Nintendo products will be addressing Game Developers Conference 2008 attendees this month, specifically speaking about Wii Fit, WiiWare and Super Smash Bros. Brawl.Wii Balance Board producer Takao Sawano will be leading the charge on February 20 around 4pm. We predict he'll give a retrospective on exactly how he made the first game controller to grace the cover of Cosmo.On February 22, Takashi Aoyama will ... » Read More

The latest Iwata Asks series of interviews looks at Wii Fit. In it, Shigeru Miyamoto hints that he could be the one to make "1080 Balance Boarding" on Wii, which would obviously support the Wii Fit Balance Board.
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VGChartz reports via Famitsu that the Game Sales for the week of Jan 28th, to Feb 3rd, 2008 was as follows:

Top 10 Software

1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii): more than 800k (sell-through rate 95%)
2. Devil May Cry (PS3): about 210k
3. Suzumiya Haruhi no Tomadoi (PS2): about 113k
4. Tales of Destiny Directors Cut (PS2): about 97k
5. Wii Fit (Wii)
6. Desgaea 3 (PS3)L about 56k
7. Devil May Cry (360): about 40k
8. Assasin's Creed (PS3): about 37k
9. Mario & Sonic at Beijing Olympics (DS)
10. Winning Eleven: Ubiquitous Evolution 2008 (PSP)

Console Sales:

Wii : abuot 100k
PS3 : about 36k
360 : about 5.8k
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OnAxis reports USA Today recently let out their list for the top eight promising games for 2008. Out of the eight games, four are for the PLAYSTATION 3, two on the Xbox 360, two on the Wii, and one on the PC.

Last year, video gamers were greeted with a bounty of top-notch titles, from Halo 3 to Super Mario Galaxy. Can enthusiasts expect more of the same? Here's eight promising games for 2008.

1) Grand Theft Auto 4 (PS3/360)
2) Killzone 2 (PS3)
3) LittleBigPlanet (PS3)
4) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3)
5) Spore (PC/Mac)
6) Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
7) Too Human (360)
8) Wii Fit (Wii)
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Famitsu via VGChartz reports from Jan 21st to Jan 27th, 2008, the hardware sales in Japan were as follows:

Console :

Wii : about 79k
DSL : about 75k
PS3 : about 29k
PS2 : about 11k
PSP : about 61k
360 : about 4.2k

Top 10

1. Wii Fit (Wii) : about 96k (total about 1.21m)
2. Winning Eleven: Ubiquitous Evolution 2008 (PSP) : about 70k
3. Lucky Star: Ryouou Gakuen Outou-Sai (PS2) : about 61k
4. Mario & Sonic at Beijing Olympics (DS) : about 54k (total about 145k)
5. Wii Sports (Wii) : about 28k (total about 2.69m)
6. Mario Party DS (DS) : about 26k (total about 1.56m)
7. Yggdra Union (PSP) : about 22k
8. Dora Base (DS) : about 22k (total about 141k)
9. Monster Hunter Portable 2 (PSP) : about 15k (total about 1.58m)
10. Wii Play (Wii) : about 14k (total about 2.15m)

New releases out of Charts(Top 30):

Exit (DS) : about 5.5k
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights (PS3) : about 5k
The Sims 2 (DS) : about 3.7k
TOCA RACE DRIVER3 THE ULTIMATE RACING SIMULATOR (PS2) : about 0.75k
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Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto did give a few hints on future plans in an interview in the latest issue of Famitsu.

First, the Balance Wii Board, the peripheral that's included with Wii Fit. The magazine noted that Wii Fit has been quite the success story for Nintendo so far. To this, Miyamoto responded that if the game sees success overseas as well, Nintendo may end up releasing separate titles that make use of the peripheral.

The magazine also asked Miyamoto the inevitable question about sequels, and he gave the expected answer. In case you have to hear to to believe it, Miyamoto is indeed interested in making a Super Mario Galaxy sequel. He's also thinking about the next Zelda title.
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Wii

Wii Sports - 17,850,000
Wii Play - 9,230,000
Super Mario Galaxy - 5,190,000
Mario Party 8 - 4,350,000
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - 4,300,000
Super Paper Mario - 2,160,000
Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree - 2,000,000
Mario Strikers Charged - 1,650,000
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - 1,140,000
Link's Crossbow Training - 1,070,000
Wii Fit - 1,050,000

Nintendo DS

Nintendogs - 17,790,000
Pokemon Diamond & Pearl - 14,170,000
New Super Mario Bros. - 13,140,000
Brain Age - 11,710,000
Brain Age 2 - 9,840,000
Mario Kart DS - 9,670,000
Animal Crossing Wild World - 9,200,000
Super Mario 64 DS - 5,780,000
Big Brain Academy - 4,610,000
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - 3,820,000
Pokemon Ranger - 2,610,000
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Explorers of Darkness - 1,540,000
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January 28, 2008 - According to Gamefront.de, Nintendo is planning to ship its eagerly anticipated exercise "game," Wii Fit, this April in America. Nintendo itself would has thus far only said that the title would ship sometime in "Q2" of this year, a timeline that would definitely fall in line with April.

Gamefront also reports that Europeans will get the exercise title sometime this June.

More as information becomes available.
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Canadian students have given each other a Wii workout to see if the top-selling videogame console can get couch potatoes to work up a sweat.
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Tom Ivan of Next-Gen reports that a softening consumer spending environment won't stop annual US software sales exceeding $10 billion for the first time in 2008, says Colin Sebastian of Lazard Capital Markets

The analyst forecasts a software sales increase of ten-fifteen percent over 2007, largely driven by rising sales of titles for next generation platforms.

"The estimate excludes the incremental contribution from online, casual, mobile, and advertising revenues, which we believe are key long-term growth and margin drivers for the industry."

According to Sebastian, historically, videogame industry sales are driven by product cycles rather than by consumer spending and GDP growth.

Sebastian lists Blizzard's World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, EA's Army of Two, Konami's Metal Gear Solid 4, LucasArts' Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Wii Fit, Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIII and Take-Two's Grand Theft Auto IV amongst 2008's key software releases
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Famitsu reports via VGChartz, that the weekly sales between Jan 14th to Jan 20th in Japan were the following:

Console :

DSL : about 91k
Wii : about 76k
PSP : about 65k
PS3 : about 32k
PS2 : about 13k
360 : about 4.4k

Software:

1. Wii Fit (Wii) : about 108k (total about 1.11m)
2. Mario & Sonic at Beijing Olympics (DS): about 91k
3. Mario Party DS (DS): about 38k (total about 1.53m)
4. Wii Sports (Wii): about 31k (total about 2.65m)
5. Wii Play (Wii): about 19k (total about 2.14m)
6. Monster Hunter Portable 2 (PSP): about 18k (total about 1.57m)
7. Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS): about 17k (total 714k)
8. Mario & Sonic at Beijing Olympics (Wii): about 17k (total 474k)
9. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii): about 17k (total about 844k)
10. Mario Party 8 (Wii): about 15k (total about 1.15m)
11. Mario Kart DS (DS): about 14k (total about 2.80m)
12. FF4 (DS): about 11k (toal about 559k)
13. School Days L x H (PS2): about 11k
14. DQ4 (DS): about 10k (total about 1.15m)
15. Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village (DS): about 10k (total813k)
16. New Super Mario Bros. (DS): about 10k (total about 5.06m)
17. Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS): about 10k (total about 4.56m)
18. Winning Eleven 2008 (PS2): about 9.6k (total about 605k)
20. Rune Factory 2 (DS): about 8.8k (total about 83k)
21. Everybody's Golf Portable 2 (PSP): about 8k (total about 202k)
23. Call of Duty 4 (PS3) : about 7.8k (total about 58k)
24. Star Ocean 1 First Departure (PSP): about 7.7k (total about 183k)
25. Power Pro kun Pocket 10 (DS): about 7.7k (total about 215k)

This week Upcomings :

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Game giant promises at least 65 new Wii games and 80 new DS games in the first half of the year.

"Our momentum is not limited to one system or one game," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's marketing replacement for Perrin Kaplan. "We're going broad and bold in 2008, with something for every member of the family."

First-party highlights from the release list include Advance Wars: Days of Ruin and Crosswords for DS, with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart Wii, and Wii Fit headed to Nintendo's fifth-generation console.
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Did you import Wii Fit over the holidays? Do you find your knees aching after a few days of heavy digital workouts? Or maybe your feet don't agree with the cold of your hard wood floor, so you haven't been using the title regularly.

Hori has the solution to complete your Wii Fit experience. The peripheral maker announced today the Wii Fit Mat.
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Doctors have reported that more people each day are complaining of aches and pains in the arms and shoulders after playing the Nintendo Wii.

See source for more details.
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In a story over at 1UP reporting the early success of Wii Fit, the site states that the software and Balance Board will appear on North American shores on May 20 this year:

"Wii Fit is expected to be one of the year's biggest sellers both in Japan and abroad. North Americans can expect to see the game on May 20th¿ by which time presumably they'll have that 'plus-sized' Western balance board properly stress tested and ready for use."

Title and description: Nintendic, by Andrew Macarthy on January 10th, 2008
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A report today from Jesse Divnich at the simExchange says Nintendo has turned casual games and gamers into the primary forces driving the videogame industry. Using data from the holiday 2007 shopping season, the firm said that one factor in the industry's growth has been a larger-than-expected next-generation adoption rate among casual gamers. (GameDaily, 01/09/08)
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According to Nikkei, Nintendo's Wii Fit has sold one million units in Japan on January 6, after being introduced to the market on December 1.
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It was recently reported that the Nintendo National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has received an Emmy for its advances in engineering creativity. This is the second year in a row that Nintendo has had the honor of walking home with this award.
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20th Dec, 2007 Gaming is an up and down experience. Some years cram top quality titles into our every orifice until were bursting with videogame joy and have excess polygons dripping messily out of our ears, while some other years… Well, some other years are 1983. In 2007 though, weve had a very good year indeed. A scarily good year in fact. One which has provided us so much brilliance on every format that its a genuine worry that the laws of karmic balance will soon bring us a plague ... » Read More