RSSNintendo Launching 'Wii Fit' in Japan for Holidays
By the Betanews Staff | Published October 10, 2007, 12:01 PM
Nintendo said Wednesday that it will begin selling its previously announced Wii balance board in Japan in time for the holiday shopping season. The device is bundled with a game called Wii Fit, which allows the user to perform a variety of fitness activities, including aerobics, yoga, skiing, and others which require a good sense of balance. The company is billing it as its most important product for the holiday season.
At a price of 8,800 yen, the device goes on sale December 1. Nintendo hopes that it will not only be a hit among current Wii owners, but also bring new customers to the console. The Wii has consistently outsold Sony's PS3 in the region, and Nintendo's success probably had a lot to do with Sony's announcement Tuesday that it was cutting prices in Japan on its PlayStation 3 console. The Wii Fit package is said to be on track for an international debut in early 2008.
Continuing to cater to the casual gamers should keep Nintendo ahead in the next-gen console wars for at least another year IMO.
Watching the Nintendo keynote during GDC really did make Wii Fit look like a decent amount of entertainment for the whole family.
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|coming soon "Wii Tard"
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|WE as Americans could use the Wii Fit it might resolve the problem of obesity, then again probably not.
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|Hey i played Wii Fit for 10 minutes...let me go get that super sized cup of Mc Lard.
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|DDR is loved by fatty anime nerds and it didn't help much.
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|yes Mc Lard is terrible, but as long as you are not consuming it by the buckets its not going to inflate you overnight.
truly, any kind of food eaten in mass quanities is going to make you obese, but since the US is king of fast food, there is probably little hope.
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|Hey, it's not my fault I eat McLard for every meal. It is a disease after all. Out of my hands.
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|I haven't ate at Mc Lard in years. Personally I can't grasp what people see in that place. Their food is total and complete crap. There are plenty of better fast food joints then MD's. Not to mention that they are now getting their beef from South America who have less sanitary standards as we do. Basically they can use all of those nasty pesticides, etc. that have been proven to cause cancer. Like we need another thing to give us cancer.
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|I've never seen a fat person playing DDR... I would pay for it though. ;)
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|$1 double cheeseburgers. Enough said.
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|You don't have to pay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azlOzMyHzFQ
Aren't I nice guy?!?
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