Wii Gets More and More Fitness Oriented
January 8, 2008 by Kristen King
Filed under Women's Health
According to Wii News Daily, Nintendo is coming out with additional fitness-related products.
Bandai Namco revealed at the Tokyo Games Show that a Wii version of the ‘Power Pad’ and ‘Family Trainer’ series would be coming soon with ‘Active Life: Athletic World’.
Localisation Producers Naotaka Higashiyama and Sayaki Mori are working hard to bring this special brand of footwork and fitness to the new Nintendo console. The game will utilize not only the reworked PowerPad but also the Wiimote, making it the first of its kind so far.
Wii already has the thoroughly mocked Wii Fit and other less overtly exercise-oriented titles like Dance Dance Revolution and Dancing With the Stars. Seems like Nintendo is really working to turn around the image of video games as sedentary, and taking advantage of the phenomenon they’ve created by capitalizing on America’s other obsession: weight loss.
What do you think? Are you on board with Wii fitness yet? Leave a comment!
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Tags: womens health, woman, health, wii, nintendo, exercise, fitness, video games, workout
I believe the Wii Fit will be available in the U.S. sometime in the 2nd quarter of the year. I will let you know what i think of it as soon as i can get my hands on one. In case you haven’t seen it before you can click on the link below and it will show you an demo of the Wii Fit in action!
http://e3nin.nintendo.com/wii_fit.html
Also in case you haven’t received your free Wii Remote Jacket, here’s the link for it. It took me about 3 weeks or so and i got mine and it works great!
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/jacket/jacketrequest.jsp