I finally "played" Wii Fit for more than just a few minutes.

[Geldorn]

Actually, for people like me Wii-Fit is pretty darned effective.

See, I'm one of those couch potatoes. Ok, I don't weigh too much (by BMI that is), but I sure as hell didn't exercise. At that stage the muscle training stuff in Wii-Fit suddenly makes sense because, for someone like me, that is already quite hard enough.

Now I know not all of you have that, but for me doing a bunch of correctly-executed push-ups or jacknife repetitions is rather hard. Heck, even the aerobic exercises get me sweating in some five-ten minutes.

Wii-Fit actually helps me tremendously in such areas because it provides me with (mostly) positive feedback during my attempts to get somewhat more fit. My scores are slowly improving and that gives me more motivation to keep going. At this rate I might actually go out and start playing some sport or another.

Before Wii-Fit that idea was laughable to me. Now I'm beginning to feel better about myself and finding (after twelve years of doing, well, nothing) that physical exercise is actually both useful and fun.

In short: people who put down Wii-Fit are either not in the target audience or at the very least have no idea what this game does to people who are not into exercise.