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Wii Fit out in Europe
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KennyLinder
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Is this out in America yet? Interested in this, but as I am importing to UK, I'd like to know if you can change the measurement display from lbs to stone etc?
I'm loving this. I jog regularly, but it wasn't until I got this game that I realised how unfit I am. It's really fun to try to beat your performance, this really makes a massive difference to keeping your interest. My housemate is playing too, so it's compelling to see how I can do in comparison to her (I want to beat her scores! I don't know how she got a 100% in jogging!!)
fly high ~ayunite~
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The Times have a video review/preview of sorts here -
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3817362.ece
Looks good.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3817362.ece
Looks good.
Sato Koiji said:
This specific lazy bastard has 2 young daughters, needs to go work early and home early in order to limit the amount of hours done by the nanny, and as a result has no time for a proper fitness club (not that there is one near where I live). Wii Fit is exactly the same as home workout hardware, except it takes less room, is more diversified, and more fun.
I was gonna leave this till next week but the impressions made me impatient so I picked it up earlier today.
First impressions : the board is larger and heavier then I expected, feels like a really solid piece of kit and 90 seems very reasonable actually. Its alot more accurate then I thought, it can sense the subtlest movements your body is making. Very impressive.
The games are alot of fun and harder to master then I expected. Jogging is great and having the option for 2 player jogging without needing someone to set up their own profile (which takes a good few minutes) is a nice addition.
It asks you for your birthday and height then weighs you and calculates your BMI. Mine was 21.94 which is "ideal". Rock on. You can set targets for yourself. I choose to add a little weight so I chose to gain 1kg in a month. It certainly seems like a lot of research went into this as it starting lecturing me about metabolic diseases and its relation to peoples posture. Whatever Nintendo gimme some rippling muscles already. The categories are yoga, muscle exercises, aerobics and balance games. The balance games are the little mini games like skiiing, football heading etc
Yoga was surprising good. Some poses are a lot harder then others, same with the muscle exercises. Push-ups actually seem harder using the board then in real life, maybe because the trainer requires you to time them right. Aerobics is a lot of fun but I dont see myself spending too much time here as it says its mostly for fat burning - I dont have much fat to spare! Hula hoops was hilarious.
I havent got into the stats part of it yet. Im hoping that it recommends a regime of sorts to help you reach the goal you've set instead of letting you pick random exercises blindly. I have to say it provided a better work out then I expected. There was much sweating after about half an hour, especially after the jogging. If you do the exercises right you feel the correct muscles being stretched and worked. Plus the balance board helps showing you how to correct your stance and balance. You have a little dot showing your centre of gravity and while doing the different activities you have to keep it in the zone to rack up the points and reps.
I'll be on the board again tomorrow if Im not too sore.
First impressions : the board is larger and heavier then I expected, feels like a really solid piece of kit and 90 seems very reasonable actually. Its alot more accurate then I thought, it can sense the subtlest movements your body is making. Very impressive.
The games are alot of fun and harder to master then I expected. Jogging is great and having the option for 2 player jogging without needing someone to set up their own profile (which takes a good few minutes) is a nice addition.
It asks you for your birthday and height then weighs you and calculates your BMI. Mine was 21.94 which is "ideal". Rock on. You can set targets for yourself. I choose to add a little weight so I chose to gain 1kg in a month. It certainly seems like a lot of research went into this as it starting lecturing me about metabolic diseases and its relation to peoples posture. Whatever Nintendo gimme some rippling muscles already. The categories are yoga, muscle exercises, aerobics and balance games. The balance games are the little mini games like skiiing, football heading etc
Yoga was surprising good. Some poses are a lot harder then others, same with the muscle exercises. Push-ups actually seem harder using the board then in real life, maybe because the trainer requires you to time them right. Aerobics is a lot of fun but I dont see myself spending too much time here as it says its mostly for fat burning - I dont have much fat to spare! Hula hoops was hilarious.
I havent got into the stats part of it yet. Im hoping that it recommends a regime of sorts to help you reach the goal you've set instead of letting you pick random exercises blindly. I have to say it provided a better work out then I expected. There was much sweating after about half an hour, especially after the jogging. If you do the exercises right you feel the correct muscles being stretched and worked. Plus the balance board helps showing you how to correct your stance and balance. You have a little dot showing your centre of gravity and while doing the different activities you have to keep it in the zone to rack up the points and reps.
I'll be on the board again tomorrow if Im not too sore.
Dash Kappei
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Got it on launch day for 75 at a ELDO's chain store, not bad 
I'll start doing my daily routines on Monday, hopefully between this and my treadmill (I'm NOT going to jog standing still and with a wiimote dancing inside my pocket, no way sir) I'll get fit again
I didn't know it was going to be advertised as a proper fitness aid
to let you lose weight... they're heavily promoting it as well, these days you can't escape Nintendo's TV commercials here in Italy: between this, MK Wii, the generic Wii spots, DS console and games, Nintendo has never gotten so much attention my Country.
I'll start doing my daily routines on Monday, hopefully between this and my treadmill (I'm NOT going to jog standing still and with a wiimote dancing inside my pocket, no way sir) I'll get fit again
I didn't know it was going to be advertised as a proper fitness aid
s (paging Jarod)
Which is still Sonyland though
Dash Kappei said:
The Wii/Wii mote has pretty good range. Just pop the thing in your pocket and go for a jog around the house! As i've a fairly small house (high ceileings though which helps with the yoga) I can jog upstairs and down with perfect clarity.
Was going to jog in the garden today, but it rained pretty heavily.
My BMI seems to just be randomly fluctuating at the moment, i've no idea what Wii Fit is doing to it yet!
polyh3dron
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Flakster99
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polyh3dron said:
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Chittagong
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FINLAND REPREZENT
So I've been playing the game and I think it's really cool. At Pulsa Start (my Spanish Wii blog) we're doing some special thing for this game. We will have some journals, and three different first impressions and reviews frm three different staffers.
We've just published my first impressions.
A small summary:
- Slick presentation, very much in the vein of BT and Wii Sports, just a step ahead of both.
- There're four different kind of exercises: Yoga, Tonification, Aerobics and Balance. Yoga and Tonification have a serious presentation, the other two use the Miis and a more colorful aproach.
- I can only do some Yoga and Balance, and stepping in the lowest level, all due to my severe health problems.
- Balance is more like minigames, they're kind of fun and have appeal enough to play once and again to beat a record. Good stuff.
- We played Saturday night at a friend's home. She's 32, non gamer, she liked it a lot.
- Good and positive proposition. I like it.
We've just published my first impressions.
A small summary:
- Slick presentation, very much in the vein of BT and Wii Sports, just a step ahead of both.
- There're four different kind of exercises: Yoga, Tonification, Aerobics and Balance. Yoga and Tonification have a serious presentation, the other two use the Miis and a more colorful aproach.
- I can only do some Yoga and Balance, and stepping in the lowest level, all due to my severe health problems.
- Balance is more like minigames, they're kind of fun and have appeal enough to play once and again to beat a record. Good stuff.
- We played Saturday night at a friend's home. She's 32, non gamer, she liked it a lot.
- Good and positive proposition. I like it.
titiklabingapat
Member
Whats the supply situation like? It is selling for almost double on Amazon.co.uk.
So even if i was shocked at last E3 when they showed Wii Fit and even if i do fear the direction Nintendo might take when eventually this will crush Galaxy & Co sales (by costing 1/3), thanks to my girlfriend I have finally bought the game and played A LOT last weekend unlocking pretty much everything.
Ill start my hands on with a premise thats pretty much a conclusion as well: when judging Wii Fit, everything depends on how you wanna consider and classify it.
Ill try to explain myself better if you regard to Wii Fit as a mere videogame (of course as a non-game that could be appreciated by casuals and blablabla) the game is no different from any Brain Training: fun for the first hours, where the obvious novelty factor and curiosity to try everything rule above all, and inevitably destined in say what, 2 weeks for the most stubborn ones?- to be left somewhere to collect dust.
Pay attention, I dont mean to discredit the actual structural value of the product: Wii Fit is also REALLY interesting gameplay-wise thanks to that little big miracle that is the Balance Board, but as it has already happened a lot of times on Wii from Wii Sports to Wario, passing thru Wii Play pool and some other things- you can smell that bittersweet taste thats (a little bit unluckily) typical of the latest Nintendo console: so Wii Fit is essentially deliciously yummy in its amazing applications made of pure immediate fun and sublime controls (from the Hula Hoop to Skiing, from the Monkey Ball clone to the Step that could pretty much lead to a life like Ouendan Wii
ROOLS: ) but also a little undigested in its basic simplicity and in its limits.
So just like one year ago we were like OMFG if this is the beginning just think about the future applications with whole games built around this and that and blablabla when talking about Wii Sports and its potential, here is the very same thing: the potential is colossal, but everything will probably be left confined and far from reality.
However and thats something that IMHO should be absolutely done considering the nature of Miyamotos latest creation- if you look at Wii Fit like an entertainment educational tool in straight competition with Yoga dvd and some little workout exercise done at home well the situation is REALLY different and Wii Fit is a bet that has been 101% won.
Because the Balance Board is insanely precise in its work and because the exercise program made up by N is damn fucking real and totally rewarding.
And the HUGE advantage that Wii Fit has above his competitors is all in its technological avant-gardeness, that is the concrete possibility to check how well you are performing your activities Like as if it was a sort of real personal trainer, you fucking get a feedback on how you are doing this and that: are you too quick or slow when doing some push ups? The balance tells you so. Your knee is bent to much while doing some squats? The balance somehow sees that and tells you how to properly execute your exercise,
The work Nintendo has done is INCREDIBLE: the Balance Board is utterly cool as a peripheral and the Nintendo engineers need to be credited for having created a really smart and innovative hardware that does so much more than actually monitoring your weight.
And in this perspective the whole speedy obsolescence of the product (the real Achilles heel from a gaming POV) suddenly disappears, because Wii Fit as a tool can really be considered because of the systematical track of the results, because of the mini games, because of the amazingly simple interface- without a doubt something useful and much more rewarding/fun than a dvd.
So eventually just 2 things:
1)Nintendo did it again
2)Whether you consider it as a pure videogame or as educational entertainment, in any case this IS and most of all WILL BE for millions of people a simple killer application.
Ill start my hands on with a premise thats pretty much a conclusion as well: when judging Wii Fit, everything depends on how you wanna consider and classify it.
Ill try to explain myself better if you regard to Wii Fit as a mere videogame (of course as a non-game that could be appreciated by casuals and blablabla) the game is no different from any Brain Training: fun for the first hours, where the obvious novelty factor and curiosity to try everything rule above all, and inevitably destined in say what, 2 weeks for the most stubborn ones?- to be left somewhere to collect dust.
Pay attention, I dont mean to discredit the actual structural value of the product: Wii Fit is also REALLY interesting gameplay-wise thanks to that little big miracle that is the Balance Board, but as it has already happened a lot of times on Wii from Wii Sports to Wario, passing thru Wii Play pool and some other things- you can smell that bittersweet taste thats (a little bit unluckily) typical of the latest Nintendo console: so Wii Fit is essentially deliciously yummy in its amazing applications made of pure immediate fun and sublime controls (from the Hula Hoop to Skiing, from the Monkey Ball clone to the Step that could pretty much lead to a life like Ouendan Wii
ROOLS: ) but also a little undigested in its basic simplicity and in its limits. So just like one year ago we were like OMFG if this is the beginning just think about the future applications with whole games built around this and that and blablabla when talking about Wii Sports and its potential, here is the very same thing: the potential is colossal, but everything will probably be left confined and far from reality.
However and thats something that IMHO should be absolutely done considering the nature of Miyamotos latest creation- if you look at Wii Fit like an entertainment educational tool in straight competition with Yoga dvd and some little workout exercise done at home well the situation is REALLY different and Wii Fit is a bet that has been 101% won.
Because the Balance Board is insanely precise in its work and because the exercise program made up by N is damn fucking real and totally rewarding.
And the HUGE advantage that Wii Fit has above his competitors is all in its technological avant-gardeness, that is the concrete possibility to check how well you are performing your activities Like as if it was a sort of real personal trainer, you fucking get a feedback on how you are doing this and that: are you too quick or slow when doing some push ups? The balance tells you so. Your knee is bent to much while doing some squats? The balance somehow sees that and tells you how to properly execute your exercise,
The work Nintendo has done is INCREDIBLE: the Balance Board is utterly cool as a peripheral and the Nintendo engineers need to be credited for having created a really smart and innovative hardware that does so much more than actually monitoring your weight.
And in this perspective the whole speedy obsolescence of the product (the real Achilles heel from a gaming POV) suddenly disappears, because Wii Fit as a tool can really be considered because of the systematical track of the results, because of the mini games, because of the amazingly simple interface- without a doubt something useful and much more rewarding/fun than a dvd.
So eventually just 2 things:
1)Nintendo did it again
2)Whether you consider it as a pure videogame or as educational entertainment, in any case this IS and most of all WILL BE for millions of people a simple killer application.
Got it myself on Friday from Amazon and wasn't expecting it to be so big and heavy at 5kg. Been using it for the past few days everyday so some impressions
Just to let everyone know, Wii Fit lets you set a goal to lose weight or gain muscular weight. Once you've taken the Body Test which gets your BMI and your balancing skills you're ready to go do some training. You pick a trainer male or female and then there are four categories you can choose from; Yoga, Muscle Workouts, Aerobics or Balance Games.
Yoga and Muscle Workouts do what they say.
For the Yoga exercises, you can feel your muscles stretching. It's hard to keep your balance right and the most difficult so far has been the Tree pose.
Muscle Workouts, you can really feel the strain when you're running through them. Especially in the later ones and when you have the option of increasing the number of reps. Not all of them use the Balance Board. Some use the Wiimote and there's one that will probably make you short of breathe when you have to lie down and get up quickly repeatedly while holding your arm up. You can't set your own number of reps though.
You can also take on challenges such as trying to pull off as many press ups as you can manage. I think it counts well into the 50s.
Aerobics have been OK. I don't really use them because I go out jogging for a few miles anyway but the Jogging is well presented and works pretty well. Rhythm boxing was great too as you try and throw as many punches as you can at the end.
Balance Games are fun. Needless to say, the Skiing game is great but I found the Heading game to be good too. Really takes some balancing skills. One where you sit on the board is a weird but funny one.
You get a score and ratings at the end of every activity you do which gives a good incentive for coming back like Brain Age.
With the initial set of activities, it took about 30 mins to get through the 10 available Yoga and Muscle Workouts but, as you increase the reps and more exercises are unlocked, it can take beyond an hour.
Every minute you spend earns you Fit Cash points and there's also room to record your other activities outside Wii Fit such as other sports or even doing housework and playing an instrument.
It's a great title with clean, crisp presentation much like Wii Sports. Not a replacement for the gym of course but, excellent for some basic exercise.
Just to let everyone know, Wii Fit lets you set a goal to lose weight or gain muscular weight. Once you've taken the Body Test which gets your BMI and your balancing skills you're ready to go do some training. You pick a trainer male or female and then there are four categories you can choose from; Yoga, Muscle Workouts, Aerobics or Balance Games.
Yoga and Muscle Workouts do what they say.
For the Yoga exercises, you can feel your muscles stretching. It's hard to keep your balance right and the most difficult so far has been the Tree pose.
Muscle Workouts, you can really feel the strain when you're running through them. Especially in the later ones and when you have the option of increasing the number of reps. Not all of them use the Balance Board. Some use the Wiimote and there's one that will probably make you short of breathe when you have to lie down and get up quickly repeatedly while holding your arm up. You can't set your own number of reps though.
You can also take on challenges such as trying to pull off as many press ups as you can manage. I think it counts well into the 50s.
Aerobics have been OK. I don't really use them because I go out jogging for a few miles anyway but the Jogging is well presented and works pretty well. Rhythm boxing was great too as you try and throw as many punches as you can at the end.
Balance Games are fun. Needless to say, the Skiing game is great but I found the Heading game to be good too. Really takes some balancing skills. One where you sit on the board is a weird but funny one.
You get a score and ratings at the end of every activity you do which gives a good incentive for coming back like Brain Age.
With the initial set of activities, it took about 30 mins to get through the 10 available Yoga and Muscle Workouts but, as you increase the reps and more exercises are unlocked, it can take beyond an hour.
Every minute you spend earns you Fit Cash points and there's also room to record your other activities outside Wii Fit such as other sports or even doing housework and playing an instrument.
It's a great title with clean, crisp presentation much like Wii Sports. Not a replacement for the gym of course but, excellent for some basic exercise.
lastendconductor
Put your snobby liquids into my mouth!
Tonight I had a nightmare in which I bought Wii Fit. I'm serious :lol
edit: omfg at the fat guy running video :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
edit: omfg at the fat guy running video :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
Throwaway123456789
Member
HAHAHAHA @ The "Zazen" minigame! :lol :lol :lol
Who the hell can sit still when a butterfly flies into the candle, ignites and falls dead to the ground?! I chuckled like a retard and failed the game!
Who the hell can sit still when a butterfly flies into the candle, ignites and falls dead to the ground?! I chuckled like a retard and failed the game!
The self-proclaimed "hardcore" and "real" gamers should think of it as a controller for your feet/body.Mdk7 said:
"Why dont you lazy bastards go to an actual fitness gym?"
This and similar questions (any sports game, flight-, racing-, pet-sims etc.) should be a perma bannable offense.
Hell yeah, skiing is ace.Apenheul said:
And since my girlfriend just bought a Wii + Wii Fit (just for Wii Fit of course) i'm suddenly anticipating We Ski too...
i do hope it turns out good, balance board for 2 FTW!
Meanwhile i'll keep on masturbating dreaming about Pilotwiings with balance support...
_Alkaline_
Member
In case some people missed it.
UK Wii Fit sales:
UK Wii Fit sales:
_Alkaline_ said:
Whilst people argue that people only buy Nintendo machines for Nintendo games, this simply isn't the case in the UK where people rarely bought Nintendo games in any large volumes previously. It's not like suddenly all these Nintendo software fans moved to Britain.
So they are buying Nintendo machines for 'games they want', and sensible 3rd parties could have come up with plenty of 'games they want' had they had the foresight. And they'd be raking it in.
Pretty frustrating/amusing/boring, depending on your perspective.
Got the "game" on Saturday, really like it so far. I only wonder how some of the scores come about, when I was doing push-ups I got a score of 97 even though I suck at it. And the jackknife thing was 100 at the first go - after all it only checks if you put your feet back on the board...
I have a hard time doing stuff where I have to stand on my left leg only, but luckily I can balance myself by grabing the ceiling when doing the tree excercise.
I have a hard time doing stuff where I have to stand on my left leg only, but luckily I can balance myself by grabing the ceiling when doing the tree excercise.
Count Dookkake
Member
Ogni-XR21 said:Got the "game" on Saturday, really like it so far. I only wonder how some of the scores come about, when I was doing push-ups I got a score of 97 even though I suck at it. And the jackknife thing was 100 at the first go - after all it only checks if you put your feet back on the board...
I have a hard time doing stuff where I have to stand on my left leg only, but luckily I can balance myself by grabing the ceiling when doing the tree excercise.
Doesn't cheating kind of negate the purpose of the game?
Like using a hint book for a puzzle adventure?
_Alkaline_
Member
I was shopping in Myer the other day and came across two people demonstrating Wii Fit. About 30 or so people were huddled in a small corner watching. It was pretty crazy stuff.
Count Dookkake said:
WII Fit actually tells you to hold onto something while doing the excercise if you have trouble performing it. This is with some of the balancing excercises, like the Tree pose.
It's not cheating like in a game, since you aren't trying to get a high score. You'll have to scale down excercises to your level, and build from there. Like when you started learning to ride a bike, someone helped you maintain balance until you were able to do it yourself properly.
Count Dookkake
Member
Tempy said:
Oh, ok.
But what about the "jackknife thing"?
Sounds suspect.
DefectiveReject
Banned
WiiFit is awesome.
It's all kinds of awesome and it even had my missus and friends amased.
Anyone (And i mean anyone) calling it shit, crap, destroyer of worlds is nothing more than a misguided fanboy/girl. Who still after 2 1/2years of knowing about Wii, doesn't get it.
It's not really designed for fat ignorant HD obssessed gamers.
I have a PS3 and a 1080P TV.
I also have a Wii, because it's god damned fun, and it gets people involved.
Also anything you can advertise showing 4 people playing and having fun gets a vote, especially (I have bought GTA IV) compared to the stupid advert MS are running for GTA in the UK.
I know to anyone looking for a game to play who doesn't play games, which one i would go for!
Things change, industries evolve, people evolve, tastes evolve. Evolve with it guys enjoy it
You know who you are......!
It's all kinds of awesome and it even had my missus and friends amased.
Anyone (And i mean anyone) calling it shit, crap, destroyer of worlds is nothing more than a misguided fanboy/girl. Who still after 2 1/2years of knowing about Wii, doesn't get it.
It's not really designed for fat ignorant HD obssessed gamers.
I have a PS3 and a 1080P TV.
I also have a Wii, because it's god damned fun, and it gets people involved.
Also anything you can advertise showing 4 people playing and having fun gets a vote, especially (I have bought GTA IV) compared to the stupid advert MS are running for GTA in the UK.
I know to anyone looking for a game to play who doesn't play games, which one i would go for!
Things change, industries evolve, people evolve, tastes evolve. Evolve with it guys enjoy it
You know who you are......!
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