If Nintendo has their way your living room could be the new big thing in exercise.
Nintendo has issued CVG its full statement regarding Wii Fit complaints: ""Nintendo would like to apologise to any customers offended by the in-game terminology used to classify a player's current BMI status, as part of the BMI measurement system integrated into Wii Fit.
DarkZero: Following recent reports that perfectly healthy child was labelled overweight by Wii Fit, an individual from the National Obesity Forum has spoken to condemn the game. He remarks that a BMI measurement is misleading when used with children.
The "Energy Pak" from Nyko replaces the need to replace the batteries in your Balance Board. The Energy Pak fits onto the Balance Board and charges it, even while you are playing. It will be available in stores at the same time as Wii Fit.
There have already been countless stories about how titles such as Wii Fit have been integrated into rehabilitation programs for poorly patients, and now it looks like Wii Fit and the Balance Board will have a part to play too - in helping victims of stroke, and other brain injuries.
Not yet released in the US, Wii Fit has already sold millions in Japan since December and over 338,000 copies in the UK since its release two weeks ago.
With Wii Fit encouraging gamers around the world to get up and active and selling like nobody's business in the process, Sony and Microsoft bigwigs, understandably, may be getting a bit hot under the collar.
The Wii may be experiencing another kind of hardware shortage. Wii Fit's launch day is a little over a week away (May 19, 2008), and it's getting tougher to find online for pre-ordering. See where it's temporarily sold out and where you may still be able to find a pre-order.
No doubt as a part of their huge marketing push, Nintendo is preparing to launch Wii Fit to the masses on May 19th with an all-day event (well, as all-day as 8am-5pm can be, anyway), not at the usual Nintendo World Store location, but rather in Central Park. In addition, the event will double as a celebration of May as National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.
In a society obsessed with image, could Wii Fit's BMI measurements mistakenly be putting more pressure on impressionable young players to become anxious over their weight?
A number of parents have expressed concerns over Nintendo creating bad body images after a concerned family member complained that Wii Fit labeled her relative overweight."My [relative] came round this weekend and we let her play on our Wii Fit," a member of the DISBoards wrote. "We have all laughed and joked about being told that we're fat and need to lose weight but I was gobsmacked when it told her that she is ...
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Kotaku writes: "Online shoppers seem to have fed frenziedly on Wii Fit at Amazon.com, up for pre-order as of April 15, with the retailer already claiming its allocation of the Nintendo fitness title is already at capacity. The site says it is "actively seeking more of this product from suppliers" and we suspect that the impression that one will be able to get their hands on the game/non-game day one-as we foolishly suspected would be possible with the Wii itself-is looking less and less likely".
In something of an unprecidented show of support for the Nintendo Wii and specifically Wii Fit, Woolworths stores in the UK have renamed themselves 'WiiWorths' and plastered their storefronts in advertising for Nintendo's exercise-based game.
While Wii Fit is already available in Japan and Europe, it isn't supposed to launch in South Africa until this coming Monday, May 05. However, it appears that a certain Toys 'R Us outlet in the country is offering the game to consumers days before it should.
This is a bit of a strange one, and something that Wii Fit Chat can't see many consumers agreeing with. It seems that retailer GameStop is charging a non-refundable handling fee of $9.99 USD when purchasing Wii Fit online, bumping the price up from $89.99 to $99.99.
A new survey conducted about the Wii has revealed that 20% of 16 to 24-year olds questioned said that they would stop going to the gym in favour of sweating it out while playing the Nintendo Wii, which can only be positive for the upcoming release of Wii Fit in the US.
Nintendo of America has stocked select retail outlets across the country with a new Wii Fit promotional booklet and DVD insert designed to explain the concept and the gameplay mechanics to those still unfamiliar with them.
One full day post Grand Theft Auto IV release, and we see that Wii Fit is still at the top of the Amazon USA Bestseller list. Granted, if you combined the Xbox 360 and PS3 game sales, they would certainly trump Wii Fit... but this is crazy insane...