Nintendo's New Fit Game (Ring Fit Adventure™)

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JWeinCom said:

0D0 said:

Absolutely.

Most people wouldn't "run" stepping on their room carpet, but with Wii Fit, many did as well as they do using iPhone apps for that. However Wii Fit was much more fun. There was a snow game on Wii Fit for training your abs that was absolutely brilliant. Much fun than doing abs boring drills.

I think the best strategy would've been to market it as a Fit successor, having everything fit had plus the adventure as a new thing.

They did. Wii Fit was used in hospitals to entertain patients, recommended by doctors. Obese people lost weight using that. It works. I know people that use/used and my family and I used. You sweat using that, your muscles get sore, it's the truth.

Fitness apps still exist and many do exercise at home using all sorts of things like videos, apps and such.

I disagree. For me it'd be simpler as just Switch Fit, with the same content plus the new thing.

If they wanted this to have everything Wii Fit has, then they'd really need to have the balance board.  That would hike up the price by 40-50 bucks, making this an even heftier investment to those who didn't have a balance board (assuming they could make it compatible with old ones).  

They may have been able to use the branding. But there are also benefits to making it a new thing.  I think overall I think it's a better marketing decision to make it brand new.  I think it's better that people see it as a new product rather than Wii Fit ++

The ring works quite well as the balance board successor. It seems to me that the ring not only helps correcting the user's posture but adds the strength function. In comparison to the balance board, it loses the weight scale.

The balance board still could be added as an extra for those who wanted to buy or for those who already own one and wants to plug.