Be puzzled by mind bending brain teasers as you aim to uncover the mystery of Professor Layton and the Curious Village at all NintendoDS locations, see live demonstrations of the highly anticipated Wii Music and take a trip to the city in the all new Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City , both at selected Wii locations...
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The GBA, the popular successor to the GBC, sold 81million units in its lifetime. Nintendo released sales figures which revealed record sales, and that the Nintendo Ds has finally outsold the GBA in terms of total units sold...
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Top Ten:

1 Wii Fit + Wii Balance Board (Wii)
2 Wii Play + WiiRemote (Wii)
3 Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (PlayStation 3)
4 Mario Kart + Wii Wheel (Wii)
5 The Sims 2: Roommates (PC)
6 Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (PC)
7 Coock with me!: What we made today? (Nintendo DS)
8 Spore (PC)
9 Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (PlayStation 3)
10 Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)

Press the link for the list on each platform.
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dailygamesnews.com - We recently featured an article about a new site on the market that compared retail bundles in real time providing shoppers with the very best deal money could buy on Nintendo Wii. Seeing as Nintendo Wii's are an ideal platform for high street retailers to sting unsuspecting customers we thought it was a fantastic idea and wanted to know more. We got in touch with Tony Hart, founder of wiicompare.com and him asked a few questions...
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The YouTube phenomenon that is Giovanny Gutierrez's "Why every guy should buy his girlfriend a Wii Fit" continues to move it's panty-clad hips, having been viewed more that 6.5 million times since being posted in late May.

The much-adored Wii Fit girl (aka Lauren Bernat) who appears in the video, claimed she was furious that her boyfriend surreptitiously taped and posted the workout, so Bernat recently brought Gutierrez on the "Tyra Banks Show" to get even.
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"With gold medal fever still fresh in American viewers' minds, Nintendo and Nickelodeon are giving fitness fans another heart-pumping event to cheer about. Olympic skating champion Kristi Yamaguchi will host the finals of the first-ever Wii Fit Family Challenge, a fun-packed competition in which three families will compete for the title of Wii Fit Fittest Family by proving their prowess at Nintendo's innovative Wii Fit. Highlights from the Challenge will air on Oct. 9 on Nick at Nite, interspersed between its prime time programming."

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GamesIndustry.Biz writes: "Nintendo's Wii Fit has helped boost profits for Toys R Us during the company's second quarter.

The retailer recorded a USD 13 million profit for the three months ended August 2, up from a loss of USD 42 million for the same period last year. Revenues for the period were up 6.3 per cent to USD 2.7 billion.

"The entertainment category was primarily affected by the successful launch of Nintendo Wii Fit, which drove strong demand for videogame software and related accessories," stated the retailer."
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That's right. No soundtrack album for the orchestrated Zelda: Twilight Princess. No soundtrack for the quirky Super Paper Mario, or the amazing ambient score for Metroid Prime 3. Nintendo is giving all of us exactly what we want, which is music from Wii Fit and other non-game titles from Nintendo! Check out the translated track list for details on which games are covered.
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MTV's Stephen Totilo writes:

"The challenge of finding a Wii console, even more than 18 months since the system's launch has been well-chronicled. But who yet weeps for the consumer struggling to find a copy of "Wii Fit"?

Nintendo's exercise game appears to be in very short supply.

What could the folks at Nintendo tell me about this shortage, why it exists and when shoppers can expect to find it in stores again?"
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Ripten writes:

"So I just got done reading that a Manhattan NY gym by the name of Gravity Fitness instituted a Wii Fit program for $110 per hour. Curious to find out exactly what the program would entail, I decided to give them a ring."
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The Consortium for Public Education in the US has bestowed a Great Idea Grants to local schools with the projects developed including a Wii Fit and Dance Dance Revolution setup.

The programme running in Brownsville Area High School is called "Wii: Get Up and Move," what they refer to as a "creative solution to the serious battle against obesity and to promote healthy physical activity."
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The Ohio AP reports: Sweat drips down Renee Mershon-Wollerman's face as she eyes a boxer across the ring.

She ducks left, punches. Her opponent, a Japanese amateur, throws an uppercut. Mershon-Wollerman counters. Jab. Right hook. Her opponent hits the canvas and doesn't get up.

Mershon-Wollerman goes to a neutral corner, but there are no high-fives, no celebration. Just a simple request from her trainer, Kristen Perusek: Pause the video game for a second and rate yourself on an exercise exertion scale.

Perusek and five other Cleveland State University students received a $6,000 grant from the school to conduct research this summer on how technology can help increase physical activity, especially among children. The students recently focused on how a Nintendo Wii boxing video game compares with a boxing bag workout.
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Waiting lists for the toys are reportedly growing by up to 1,000 people every day. Websites which track new shipments of the gadgets are getting up to 30,000 visitors every 24 hours. The Wii Fit game, which includes the board, was launched in April and combines playing a computer game with mild exercise.
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Experts warn that the game, which assesses players' fitness levels based on their body mass index, labels them underweight, ideal weight, overweight or obese. They say the game could cause eating disorders and self-esteem issues.
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Wii Fit has used replenished stocks to leap to the top of the UK charts.

It beat off competition from LEGO Indiana Jones in two and Super Smash Bros. Brawl in three.

Top Spin 3 climbed slightly this week to take four, and finished just ahead of Battlefield: Bad Company at five.
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One of the reasons health clubs stay in business is by signing up people to yearly contracts.
What they know and the general public doesn't know is that a great majority of people who do sign up only attend about 57 days out of the full year while some drop out completely, thus affording more space in the gym for more people to sign up and fail to show.

It seems that Wii Fit, at least in Japan, is taking on similar characteristics in consumer behavior. According to ITMeida of Japan, a poll was taken by a group of 1000 gamers that showed a staggering amount of people not using the Wii Fit game shortly after purchase.
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Cities revealed to be the fittest cities in the UK by Men's Health magazine have bought more copies of Nintendo's Wii Fit than anywhere else, according to an online auction site.

Bristol, London and Southampton racked up the most purchases of the health-orientated game, according to auction site Telebid.

This has also driven sales of Nintendo Wii in these areas with Bristol buying the most Nintendo Wiis compared to other consoles such as the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, with 3 Wiis being won for every one rival console.
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Nintendo of Europe has released a series of videos, from a couple fitness and health experts, looking to give you an incentive to try out Wii Fit. The videos are from Dr. Klaus Pfeifer and Dr. Alfred Rütten from the Institute of Sports Science and Sport at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. They offer some tips and advice on why you should maintain good posture and exercise regularly, although they don't directly reference Wii Fit or the Wii Balance Board.
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In order to help promote Wii Fit even further in Britain, Nintendo has launched a brand new website telling the country's residents to Feel Great Britain With Wii Fit.
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Can Wii Fit help you get the body of your dreams?
More importantly is it safe for your Plasma TV?
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