Yes it's going to get everywhere, just like the atkins diet or those stupid belts. Easy changes rather then beneficial hard changes always meet with great success. It's not an exercising device, however, and that is why no self respecting gym would carry them. It'd be akin to having arcade machines for there health benefits (standing up for long periods has been proven to lose weight faster then sitting on your ass!).
Talk about what a fun game it's going to be, sure. Expousing how it's going to help you lose weight makes me picture a monstrous beast of blubber. This may be judgemental of me, but fuck if I'm not going to be on the money at least a significant amount of he time.
This post literally makes no sense to me.
I mean, it sounds like you think this game just has you stand for a while and that's how you play. It's...not.
And people saying it might help them lose weight makes you think they're really fat? If that made sense in your head, can you please explain it? Cuz it sure as hell doesn't as words on a screen.
Yeah, it's not the go-to, beat-all device to get ripped. But saying a "self-respecting" gym (more nonsense as far as I can tell) is stupid for taking something that is bound to be incredibly popular for people looking to get healthy and using it to promote their entire facility is just...well, stupid.
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Man, if my Gym got a Wii fit board I think I'd be looking for another one.
Mindless elitism or pointless spite? YOU DECIDE!
I was going to say that if your gym decides not to take advantage of a potentially massively popular gaming-slash-exercise device to get more people up and moving, you should probably look for another one. This is going to be all over the news and on the tips of tongues of mainstream America for probably the entire summer. What health-industry business isn't going to have at least one of these?
The fact that everyone is saying this thing is going to be huge is starting to make me think it won't.
The fact that everyone is saying this thing is going to be huge is starting to make me think it won't.
Your reasoning here must be too deep for me to comprehend. I'd be more inclined to spend time comprehending your greatness if you were brave enough to put your cock on the line.
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Man, if my Gym got a Wii fit board I think I'd be looking for another one.
Mindless elitism or pointless spite? YOU DECIDE!
I was going to say that if your gym decides not to take advantage of a potentially massively popular gaming-slash-exercise device to get more people up and moving, you should probably look for another one. This is going to be all over the news and on the tips of tongues of mainstream America for probably the entire summer. What health-industry business isn't going to have at least one of these?
The fact that everyone is saying this thing is going to be huge is starting to make me think it won't.
Everybody is saying that GTAIV is going to be huge. If GTAIV isn't huge, I will eat a thousand big, thick cocks.
So you NYC guys, remember how the Nintendo World Store is giving away Miyamoto t-shirts to the first 1,000 people who pre-order this weekend? 1UP said in their blurb today: "Shigeru Miyamoto will be showing [WiiFit] off in New York later this week." I imagine both events will overlap, so dig out your Link cosplay and find the sharpie so he can autograph your game and/or face.
As in, Subway Jared, the guy who supposedly lost a bunch of weight eating Subway sandwiches. I mean, it's obvious that Wii Fit alone won't make me lose a bunch of weight. But, I'll start a strict diet and a rigorous workout routine, and then I'll add Wii Fit in three or four times a week. I'll track my progress with pictures and on the Wii, and when I lose tons of weight, I'll send in a letter with all my weight loss info included, and then they'll hire me as a spokesman to show how much weight you can lose with Wii Fit.
Seriously, I'm doing this.
There's a guy doing that with the wii. So he kind of beat you to it.
So you NYC guys, remember how the Nintendo World Store is giving away Miyamoto t-shirts to the first 1,000 people who pre-order this weekend? 1UP said in their blurb today: "Shigeru Miyamoto will be showing [WiiFit] off in New York later this week." I imagine both events will overlap, so dig out your Link cosplay and find the sharpie so he can autograph your game and/or face.
Honestly... I don't know if I could meet Shigeru. I'd be so nervous and sweaty... I mean, he's seriously my video game idol, and the reason i want to develop video games.
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As in, Subway Jared, the guy who supposedly lost a bunch of weight eating Subway sandwiches. I mean, it's obvious that Wii Fit alone won't make me lose a bunch of weight. But, I'll start a strict diet and a rigorous workout routine, and then I'll add Wii Fit in three or four times a week. I'll track my progress with pictures and on the Wii, and when I lose tons of weight, I'll send in a letter with all my weight loss info included, and then they'll hire me as a spokesman to show how much weight you can lose with Wii Fit.
Seriously, I'm doing this.
There's a guy doing that with the wii. So he kind of beat you to it.
I will out-fit him. His fitness, next to my fitness, will not look quite as fit.
I mean, it sounds like you think this game just has you stand for a while and that's how you play. It's...not.
And people saying it might help them lose weight makes you think they're really fat? If that made sense in your head, can you please explain it? Cuz it sure as hell doesn't as words on a screen.
Yeah, it's not the go-to, beat-all device to get ripped. But saying a "self-respecting" gym (more nonsense as far as I can tell) is stupid for taking something that is bound to be incredibly popular for people looking to get healthy and using it to promote their entire facility is just...well, stupid.
Yes, it's not standing still. It is not much more strenuous then basically that though, certainly not enough for any real noticeable weight loss. The reason I imagine everyone who talks of how it will make them lose weight are whales is because you would have to have practically no experience with any kind of exercise ever to belive this will do anything. They’re the same kind of people who talked about how they feel slimmer after playing the Wii (fun fact, a study printed in the times showed that playing the Wii increased calorie burn by merely 5% over sitting on your ass with a 360/PS3, I’ll try to dig it out).
No self respecting gym will carry them because they don’t help you get fit or healthy in any meaningful sense. Like I said earlier, it’d be like if a trainer recommended those fat belts, or told me to go on to the atkins diet, I and I hope most others would tell them to fuck off. Sure gyms catering to the crowd who sign up to a gym go twice before realising they may actually have to do something, and never appear again for the rest of the year may carry this. Yes that crowd might eat shit like Wii fit all up, however, I don’t believe any gym which caters to this crowd can be self respecting (tm).
Leitner is the king of hating Nintendo things. I'm pretty used to his responses now.... Though I'm shocked it took him this long to post in here.
Mostly it's just their stupid lying advertisment for games such as this, which manages to sucker everyone in and sell shit loads. "Nintendo brain training will double your IQ and make you smarter then everyone around you*
*[tiny]everything in the following advert was bullshit in weasel words so the advertising commision doesn't pin our asses to the wall, it will improve your intelligence no more then any other game. It may improve your skills at some silly little games though?[/tiny]"
Oh, and because they're Japanese, I hate those xenophobic Japanese so damn much.
This is kind of fun. Amazon now lists Wii Fit (still at no. 1) up 881,100%, with third party wii fit accessories taking in 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Amazon's original dummy slot for Wii Fit is no. 8. We Ski is no. 9.
Wii Sports sold at $250 a pop. This is nothing, especially since it has the "game that can make you healthier" aura around it. I'm still undecided if it's actually for me or not, but I wouldn't bet against it completely taking North America by storm.
Especially since we already have examples of games packaged with peripherals that cost more than other games and have done phenomenally well: Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
The Good Morning America thing is huge. You're going to have soccer moms around the country picking this thing up not only for themselves, but for their kids. This is going to be the video game that parents want to buy their kids, in fact.
This game is going to be a phenomenon. The Good Morning America thing was just the tip of the iceberg; the media is going to go nuts over this thing.
*Edit: Regarding why anybody would need three balance boards - I wouldn't be at all surprised if lots of upscale gyms, yoga places, hospitals, and physical therapy centers are going to want a few of these things. I also wouldn't be surprised to find that mothers are buying one for themselves and one for their children.
Man, my mom IMed me to tell me it was up for Amazon preorder. She didn't find out about it from GMA either -- this game was likely a factor in her picking up a Wii when she found one a couple of months ago (along with previous experience with Wii bowling). She's actually put in her first preorder ever at a local game store since she's going to be out of town when it comes out and she's worried she might not be able to find it when she gets back.
So... yeah, the media (and people like my mom) will eat this thing up.
Not to complain here but can the Wii board not be connected to the system and if not, are you people not getting a little tired of having no option BUT to buy batters of recharable accessory packs for these things?
BTW, I'm not an expert here but I don't recall ever seeing any kind of charge cable for even the basic remotes and while an arguement could be made for the remotes due to their natural use, the board is stationary.
I mean, it sounds like you think this game just has you stand for a while and that's how you play. It's...not.
And people saying it might help them lose weight makes you think they're really fat? If that made sense in your head, can you please explain it? Cuz it sure as hell doesn't as words on a screen.
Yeah, it's not the go-to, beat-all device to get ripped. But saying a "self-respecting" gym (more nonsense as far as I can tell) is stupid for taking something that is bound to be incredibly popular for people looking to get healthy and using it to promote their entire facility is just...well, stupid.
Yes, it's not standing still. It is not much more strenuous then basically that though, certainly not enough for any real noticeable weight loss. The reason I imagine everyone who talks of how it will make them lose weight are whales is because you would have to have practically no experience with any kind of exercise ever to belive this will do anything. They’re the same kind of people who talked about how they feel slimmer after playing the Wii (fun fact, a study printed in the times showed that playing the Wii increased calorie burn by merely 5% over sitting on your ass with a 360/PS3, I’ll try to dig it out).
No self respecting gym will carry them because they don’t help you get fit or healthy in any meaningful sense. Like I said earlier, it’d be like if a trainer recommended those fat belts, or told me to go on to the atkins diet, I and I hope most others would tell them to fuck off. Sure gyms catering to the crowd who sign up to a gym go twice before realising they may actually have to do something, and never appear again for the rest of the year may carry this. Yes that crowd might eat shit like Wii fit all up, however, I don’t believe any gym which caters to this crowd can be self respecting (tm).
So not only do we have casual games and hard-core games, but we also have casual gyms and hard-core gyms? You realize how dumb this sounds, right? And more important, if your gym picked this up, would it lose its Hard-Core Gym license? Would hard-core exercisers flame it excessively on message boards? "Stupid casual gyms, stealing resources away from our hard-core exercise machines!"
EDIT: I'm not saying Wii Fit is going to actually help a significant amount of people lose weight or get fit or anything, really. But what I am saying is that if/when it becomes absurdly popular, what's the harm in a gym having a kiosk or two? It would be excellent to get kids up and moving, which this nation of increasingly obese children needs desperately right now, and even if it's mostly PR fluff and moonbeams, the system is stealth-introducing push-ups, yoga and BMI calculations into millions of households. I fail to see how any health-industry professional would pooh-pooh this.
EDIT2: I'm reminded of musicians shit-talking Rock Band and Guitar Hero. They're so busy protecting the ivory tower that they're completely undercutting the vehicles that are getting legions of people to actually discover the Who and Eric Johnson.
I'm getting pretty close to biting the bullet and putting everyone who says something retarded on ignore. It would improve my day no end. Leitner is a prick.
Miyamoto himself has said it's not to make you lose wait, it's to make weighing yourself regularly fun and a joint activity. It's about making people less shy about their health and more open about it. Hence the family weigh in and comparison stuff, making people more aware of and more at ease in their body, and it's condition. Thats no bad thing, unless you consider fitness to be some special holier than thou club, and you want to look down on people. Which Leitner clearly does.
Sure fat idiots who'll give up after a day are going to use it whilst gym cunts laugh at them in their ivory towers. Either way I don't give a shit.
It's people like you that keep people from gyms, your cock sure cunt attitude makes shy retiring people avoid the places you gather and so in desperation they turn to things no where near as effective, like home gyms, and maybe even Wii fit.
Your fighting against a straw man, no one thinks that Wii Fit will single handedly make them lose their gut anymore than they think that Brain Age can train them for mensa.
Not to complain here but can the Wii board not be connected to the system and if not, are you people not getting a little tired of having no option BUT to buy batters of recharable accessory packs for these things?
BTW, I'm not an expert here but I don't recall ever seeing any kind of charge cable for even the basic remotes and while an arguement could be made for the remotes due to their natural use, the board is stationary.
I haven't had to buy a single battery since I got this thing. There's an official Nintendo one (IIRC) and several other third party but this is the best.
Every other peripheral connects through the remote, including the GH guitar, not sure how the board connects. I wouldn't be surprised to hear it's also connected to a remote lying on the floor, or through the GC controller port, which both would work just fine.
Not to complain here but can the Wii board not be connected to the system and if not, are you people not getting a little tired of having no option BUT to buy batters of recharable accessory packs for these things?
BTW, I'm not an expert here but I don't recall ever seeing any kind of charge cable for even the basic remotes and while an arguement could be made for the remotes due to their natural use, the board is stationary.
Looks like batteries to me, going by the pic of its underside: wiki wiki lol
It's got it's own Blue Tooth thingy so you don't need to connect a Remote. In the Awata Speaks thingy, they mentioned they thought about it, but desided it needed to be stand alone so it was quicker for people to weigh themselves daily. That's why there is the stand alone channel.
I believe it takes AA's. I've just got a bunch of rechargeable and a charger. Sorts out my 2 Wii remotes and 2 360 controllers find and dandy.
EDIT2: I'm reminded of musicians shit-talking Rock Band and Guitar Hero. They're so busy protecting the ivory tower that they're completely undercutting the vehicles that are getting legions of people to actually discover the Who and Eric Johnson.
That's because Guitar Hero doesn't make you a guitarist any more than DDR makes you a prima fucking ballerina.
Let's ignore Leitner's blatherings and see how Wii Fit ACTUALLY works, shall we? From IGN:
I think gamers -- hardcore or otherwise -- who still believe that Wii Fit is a gimmick, an impostor, or an all-out fake are in for a rude awakening. Whether you want to refer to it as a game or an exercise program, you will eventually have to concede, as I have, that it's the real deal. It'll give you a work out. You will sweat. Your heart will move. And you might just wake up sore the next day. I'm speaking from experience for exactly that happened to me at last week's Nintendo Media Summit, where I went hands (and feet) on the Wii Balance Board and cycled through some of the exercises and minis in Nintendo's sort-of-kind-of-game and soon-to-be-hit.
Wii fit actually made a reasonably fit guy sweat.
The Big N has shied away from stating that Wii Fit is a true exercise solution (and I can't really blame it when we live in a world where stupid people who accidentally break their TVs with Wii remotes will actually sue the publisher), but the fact remains, many of the challenges encapsulated within Wii Fit are hard and very taxing on your body. I'm by no means Mr. Universe, but I do go to my local gym about four times per week and I adhere to regular workout cycles, sometimes concentrating on my chest and back, other times focusing on my arms and stomach. I've been doing this for years and like to think I'm fairly well-versed in a solid exercise program. And yet, 20 minutes with Wii Fit kicked my ass, which surprised me.
In my recent play-through of the title, I first engaged in a strength-training exercise that was one part push-up and another part yoga. Bear in mind that I'm used to shoulder-length push-ups, but in Wii Fit, the size of the Balance Board -- about the width of a day-to-day scale -- requires that you pull your arms a little closer together like a diamond push-up. This, in case you're wondering, is considerably more difficult. Both hands are placed firmly on the Balance Board, knees still on the ground. Next, you stretch your legs out and hold your body at the high point of the push-up. Breath in and slowly lower yourself to the Board while breathing out. Now hold for one, two, three seconds. Not so bad, right? Wrong. It's about to get tricky. Now you have to keep the position while you wrap your right leg around your left, reach toward the sky with your right arm and pivot your body, shifting all of your weight on your left arm. Hold. Return to the push-up position -- smoothly now -- and repeat the process. Six times. (You can unlock higher reps as you use Wii Fit on a daily basis.)
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There are all sorts of other exercises, some more difficult than others. In strength training alone, which I find particularly appealing (mostly because it's not Yoga, which I seem to be incapable of showing any kind of prowess in), there's single leg extension, sideways leg lifts, arm and leg lifts, single arm stands, torso twists, rowing squats, single leg twists, lunges, push-ups and side planks, jackknifes, plank and tricep extensions, and more. In aerobics, you can partake in hula-hoop challenges, basic steps, basic runs, super hula-hoops, advanced steps, rhythm boxing, free steps and free runs. In Yoga, there's deep breathing, half moons, dances, cobras, bridges, spinal twists, shoulder stands, warrior poses, tree poses, sun salutation poses, standing knee poses, palm tree poses, chair, triangle and downward-facing dog poses. It's a ridiculously complete set of traditional exercises.
And then there are the Balance Board games. I tried a few more of these out at the event. First, though, the selection, which includes soccer heading, ski slalom, ski jump, table tilt, tightrope walk, balance bubble, penguin slide, snowboard slalom and lotus focus. I delved a little deeper into the ski jump than I ever have before and found the mini to be immensely enjoyable, both simple and addictive. To play, you place both feet on the Balance Board and lean forward, shifting most of your weight toward the front of the peripheral. The position of your feet directly moves an on-screen reticule around and your immediate goal is merely to correctly balance yourself so that the reticule moves within another on-screen circle -- the money spot. The longer you keep the reticule in there, the greater speed your character will build as he slides down the hill. And just before you reach the jump at the end, you make a jumping gesture (but don't actually jump -- Wii Fit warns before several challenges that you should never jump). Just straighten your legs very quickly and, according to one Nintendo instructor, you should even try to stand on your tiptoes, as you're likely to gain greater height. (I tried this but was unsuccessful.) It took me about two tries to really get the hang of everything, another five or so to start ranking in the top five, and three more times on top of that before I finally nabbed first place. It's not a complicated mini-game, but I have to admit that I was glued to the ski slalom as I tried for first place. I didn't want to stop playing, which is always a great sign.
But is it fun?
I go to the gym regularly, but sometimes I have to force myself to leave the house. Wii Fit succeeds in that it makes exercising fun -- addictive, even. In fact, gamers strictly opposed to working up a sweat may find the exercise component invisible -- you'll be having so much fun with the mini-games that you won't even notice you're technically burning calories until you're suddenly out of breath.
Edit: And yes, EVERY exercise routine, no matter how proven, will fail if the person undertaking it is a putz and gives up after the first day. You can't blame Wii Fit for that.
I think Nintendo rejiggered the balance board for us humongous Americans.
My only concern is the whole BMI thing. I've got a higher than average BMI... not because I'm fat, but because I work out regularly and have some muscle. I wonder if there's any way I can tell the board that, or if it'll constantly call me a fattie?
Damn you cloud eagle. I been tempted by this item since it's announcement due to my attempts to lose weight, and what you posted is making me think that it could be a good addition to my regime.
And I was thinking of selling my Wii too. Decisions, decisions..
I think Nintendo rejiggered the balance board for us humongous Americans.
My only concern is the whole BMI thing. I've got a higher than average BMI... not because I'm fat, but because I work out regularly and have some muscle. I wonder if there's any way I can tell the board that, or if it'll constantly call me a fattie?
Did they widenthe dimensions, or just reinforce it for weight?
I'm well under 660 lbs., but I've got size 15 feet to worry about hanging over the edge.
I think Nintendo rejiggered the balance board for us humongous Americans.
My only concern is the whole BMI thing. I've got a higher than average BMI... not because I'm fat, but because I work out regularly and have some muscle. I wonder if there's any way I can tell the board that, or if it'll constantly call me a fattie?
Wait, they actually added BMI to this? Talk about outdated.
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I'm worried because I'm 6'5" and fluctuate between 320 and 340. I want this badly, and I want it to work..
20 pounds seems to be a pretty large range to be "fluctuating" in.
Though if they say it supports 330, then that should be a slight underestimate. Like how if its posted that an elevator supports X pounds. I think you'll be alright.
I think Nintendo rejiggered the balance board for us humongous Americans.
My only concern is the whole BMI thing. I've got a higher than average BMI... not because I'm fat, but because I work out regularly and have some muscle. I wonder if there's any way I can tell the board that, or if it'll constantly call me a fattie?
Did they widen the dimensions, or just reinforce it for weight?
Both I think, though your feet ARE huge. I'd look at a board at a store to make sure.
And yup, it's BMI. I can respect that since obsessing about your pure weight can be less than constructive sometimes if you don't take height, build, etc. into it. Like the girl in high school I knew who was really bothered by the fact that she weighed 140 pounds... she was 6 feet tall. Though it does measure weight as well, apparently.
I just hope they'll take into account more muscly guys. Then again, I remember Reggie ran into the same problem during last E3.
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I mean, it sounds like you think this game just has you stand for a while and that's how you play. It's...not.
And people saying it might help them lose weight makes you think they're really fat? If that made sense in your head, can you please explain it? Cuz it sure as hell doesn't as words on a screen.
Yeah, it's not the go-to, beat-all device to get ripped. But saying a "self-respecting" gym (more nonsense as far as I can tell) is stupid for taking something that is bound to be incredibly popular for people looking to get healthy and using it to promote their entire facility is just...well, stupid.
The fact that everyone is saying this thing is going to be huge is starting to make me think it won't.
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Your reasoning here must be too deep for me to comprehend. I'd be more inclined to spend time comprehending your greatness if you were brave enough to put your cock on the line.
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Everybody is saying that GTAIV is going to be huge. If GTAIV isn't huge, I will eat a thousand big, thick cocks.
There's a guy doing that with the wii. So he kind of beat you to it.
Honestly... I don't know if I could meet Shigeru. I'd be so nervous and sweaty... I mean, he's seriously my video game idol, and the reason i want to develop video games.
I will out-fit him. His fitness, next to my fitness, will not look quite as fit.
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Yes, it's not standing still. It is not much more strenuous then basically that though, certainly not enough for any real noticeable weight loss. The reason I imagine everyone who talks of how it will make them lose weight are whales is because you would have to have practically no experience with any kind of exercise ever to belive this will do anything. They’re the same kind of people who talked about how they feel slimmer after playing the Wii (fun fact, a study printed in the times showed that playing the Wii increased calorie burn by merely 5% over sitting on your ass with a 360/PS3, I’ll try to dig it out).
No self respecting gym will carry them because they don’t help you get fit or healthy in any meaningful sense. Like I said earlier, it’d be like if a trainer recommended those fat belts, or told me to go on to the atkins diet, I and I hope most others would tell them to fuck off. Sure gyms catering to the crowd who sign up to a gym go twice before realising they may actually have to do something, and never appear again for the rest of the year may carry this. Yes that crowd might eat shit like Wii fit all up, however, I don’t believe any gym which caters to this crowd can be self respecting (tm).
Mostly it's just their stupid lying advertisment for games such as this, which manages to sucker everyone in and sell shit loads. "Nintendo brain training will double your IQ and make you smarter then everyone around you*
*[tiny]everything in the following advert was bullshit in weasel words so the advertising commision doesn't pin our asses to the wall, it will improve your intelligence no more then any other game. It may improve your skills at some silly little games though?[/tiny]"
Oh, and because they're Japanese, I hate those xenophobic Japanese so damn much.
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Man, my mom IMed me to tell me it was up for Amazon preorder. She didn't find out about it from GMA either -- this game was likely a factor in her picking up a Wii when she found one a couple of months ago (along with previous experience with Wii bowling). She's actually put in her first preorder ever at a local game store since she's going to be out of town when it comes out and she's worried she might not be able to find it when she gets back.
So... yeah, the media (and people like my mom) will eat this thing up.
I would love to see an opinion from a personal trainer, doubt that will happen after the release.
Same thing my gal and I are doing. It's a great way to get the game.
BTW, I'm not an expert here but I don't recall ever seeing any kind of charge cable for even the basic remotes and while an arguement could be made for the remotes due to their natural use, the board is stationary.
So not only do we have casual games and hard-core games, but we also have casual gyms and hard-core gyms? You realize how dumb this sounds, right? And more important, if your gym picked this up, would it lose its Hard-Core Gym license? Would hard-core exercisers flame it excessively on message boards? "Stupid casual gyms, stealing resources away from our hard-core exercise machines!"
EDIT: I'm not saying Wii Fit is going to actually help a significant amount of people lose weight or get fit or anything, really. But what I am saying is that if/when it becomes absurdly popular, what's the harm in a gym having a kiosk or two? It would be excellent to get kids up and moving, which this nation of increasingly obese children needs desperately right now, and even if it's mostly PR fluff and moonbeams, the system is stealth-introducing push-ups, yoga and BMI calculations into millions of households. I fail to see how any health-industry professional would pooh-pooh this.
EDIT2: I'm reminded of musicians shit-talking Rock Band and Guitar Hero. They're so busy protecting the ivory tower that they're completely undercutting the vehicles that are getting legions of people to actually discover the Who and Eric Johnson.
Miyamoto himself has said it's not to make you lose wait, it's to make weighing yourself regularly fun and a joint activity. It's about making people less shy about their health and more open about it. Hence the family weigh in and comparison stuff, making people more aware of and more at ease in their body, and it's condition. Thats no bad thing, unless you consider fitness to be some special holier than thou club, and you want to look down on people. Which Leitner clearly does.
Sure fat idiots who'll give up after a day are going to use it whilst gym cunts laugh at them in their ivory towers. Either way I don't give a shit.
It's people like you that keep people from gyms, your cock sure cunt attitude makes shy retiring people avoid the places you gather and so in desperation they turn to things no where near as effective, like home gyms, and maybe even Wii fit.
Your fighting against a straw man, no one thinks that Wii Fit will single handedly make them lose their gut anymore than they think that Brain Age can train them for mensa.
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I haven't had to buy a single battery since I got this thing. There's an official Nintendo one (IIRC) and several other third party but this is the best.
Every other peripheral connects through the remote, including the GH guitar, not sure how the board connects. I wouldn't be surprised to hear it's also connected to a remote lying on the floor, or through the GC controller port, which both would work just fine.
Looks like batteries to me, going by the pic of its underside:
wiki wiki lol
I believe it takes AA's. I've just got a bunch of rechargeable and a charger. Sorts out my 2 Wii remotes and 2 360 controllers find and dandy.
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That's because Guitar Hero doesn't make you a guitarist any more than DDR makes you a prima fucking ballerina.
Wii fit actually made a reasonably fit guy sweat.
More games:
But is it fun?
http://wii.ign.com/articles/866/866524p2.html
tl;dr: Wii Fit actually works and is pretty fun.
Edit: And yes, EVERY exercise routine, no matter how proven, will fail if the person undertaking it is a putz and gives up after the first day. You can't blame Wii Fit for that.
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Also, all the floors in my apartment are carpeted.
I will be incredibly disappointed if Nintendo made it too small for me to use.
My only concern is the whole BMI thing. I've got a higher than average BMI... not because I'm fat, but because I work out regularly and have some muscle. I wonder if there's any way I can tell the board that, or if it'll constantly call me a fattie?
And I was thinking of selling my Wii too. Decisions, decisions..
Did they widenthe dimensions, or just reinforce it for weight?
I'm well under 660 lbs., but I've got size 15 feet to worry about hanging over the edge.
Wait, they actually added BMI to this? Talk about outdated.
Though if they say it supports 330, then that should be a slight underestimate. Like how if its posted that an elevator supports X pounds. I think you'll be alright.
I know this was on the last page, but gyms have step aerobics or yoga.
Which is a large part of this game.
Both I think, though your feet ARE huge. I'd look at a board at a store to make sure.
And yup, it's BMI. I can respect that since obsessing about your pure weight can be less than constructive sometimes if you don't take height, build, etc. into it. Like the girl in high school I knew who was really bothered by the fact that she weighed 140 pounds... she was 6 feet tall. Though it does measure weight as well, apparently.
I just hope they'll take into account more muscly guys. Then again, I remember Reggie ran into the same problem during last E3.
How big are you, DMK?
The more you weigh, the larger your fluctuations in weight are. It's proportional.