"I think Xbox may have something extremely attention grabbing on their hands in the form of the newly announced Xbox Fitness. It’s both an exclusive and proof that the Kinect may be worth its extra cost. Xbox Fitness has recruited four well-known trainers with even more well-known fitness programs to craft a workout experience specifically for the Xbox One and Kinect 2.0."

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"There’s Tracy Anderson from Metamorphosis, Jillian Michaels from Ripped in 30, Shaun T. from Insanity and Tony Horton from P90X. The “game,” if you want to call it that, will launch before this holiday, and will be free for Xbox Live Gold members for a year. After that, the app will require a subscription, but I’m not yet sure how much it will be."

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"Well, as seen from the demo below, the new Kinect is put to good use here, measuring heart rate, correcting your form, and I believe even counting reps."

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"[...] if Xbox Fitness can partner with programs that people have proven to use and like already, they could really have something here."

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"I also have a hunch this could attract a lot of people who wouldn’t normally try one of these programs, and they might give it a shot to A) test out their new Kinect which they probably aren’t using for much else, and B) be able to see real time feedback about their progress. It sounds small, but gamifying anything, fitness especially, can be highly motivating."

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"Kinect has had dance and fitness games for years, which have always been the most useful titles for the device, but I think in the case of Xbox Fitness, they’ve finally evolved into something that people might actually seek out, or that avid gamers might try when they wouldn’t have otherwise. Having the app be free for a full year really helps with that, as it’s not a title they have to go out and buy."

full article here:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/09/27/microsofts-most-important-xbox-one-exclusive-so-far-might-be-xbox-fitness/

looks like a boring WiiFit ripoff

just saw you already posted about it, didn't get the attention it deserves, this is HUGE !

hopefully it will also have a massive boring impact

It's always difficult to judge if a dance/fitness product will take off.

Who knew that Wii-fit would become the massive thing that it did (even I am sad to report I purchased it...lolz)

I still think there is a market for a new fitness product, with wii-u fit and this, they are both going into competition. For me as a consumer, the MS one would feel like a more quality product because of the better looking graphics - feels like its aimed at an adult market... but Nintendo certainly has the last successful fitness product which might help them more.

Going to be interesting to see if there is a market for these two products or if it will help propel the consoles into higher sales. After the disaster that was EA Sports Active, I am not sure, but thats whats great about this side of the market, anything can happen.

       Yawn...... Still not getting a Xbox One.

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-Mr Khan

The one take away that I have from the original Wii is that it left a sour taste in a lot of buyers mouths.  Not core gamers, as they actually bought lots of the main Nintendo games and enjoyed them.

But, the casuals played a crapload of Wiisports and Wiifitness and were bored quickly.  There isn't much carryover to sequels when that happens.  That's why i think that the WiiU has been struggling.  Peoples perception is that it is more of the same.  For the Kinect, it will have a similar problem unless it can prove that it has something special and new.  Not sure what that will be yet though.

The fact they are willing to lose money for an entire year and hope to retain customers on a subscription basis is a good indicator of confidence.

I don't think this is a PR stunt, would be too costly.

I would try it if I had gold, yet won't start using it with another required subscription looming ahead, no thanks.

This could be big! Can't wait to hear more about this.