WiiFit hits 1,000,000!

[Avinash_Tyagi]

rocketpig said:

fkusumot said:

rocketpig said:
I get the nagging feeling that this "game" won't explode in NA and Europe nearly as much as most other posters here. I think it will do well but not "best selling game of all time" type of sales.

I will predict 7-8m when all is said and done.

 Less than Halo3? Really?

 

Quite possibly. I think Wii Fii has a few things going against it: 

 

- Demographic of the Wii. Some people just won't care about this "game" whatsoever. I'm one of them.

- Price. This, when combined with the console price, is a pretty expensive balance board. It's not exercise, at all, and I think many Westerners will see that.

- The Japanese are hardly an indicator of popularity when it comes to stuff like this. For every Japanese trend you throw at me, I could throw back 10 that just didn't take off in the Western world.

- I don't think middle-aged Westerners are ready to buy into a "game" that needs peripherals (like the console itself) and try to exercise with it. I just don't see it happening in enormous numbers.

 

I could be wrong but that's just my opinion. We'll all know the truth in six months and I know how badly anyone takes flak on this board for questioning one of Nintendo's sacred cows. 

 You're not the demographic being targeted

Its Wii fit, not Wii exercise, not Wii fat, its designed to be part of a movement towards fitness not the only thing, the software is designed to includes the exercises on the system, from jogging, to pushups, and also your external exercise, like if you o to a gym, into a plan that it helps you sculpt to reach your goal, it is a motivation tool to help you become fit, not the one size fits all cure, the west loves its exercise gear andy buys tons of junk that doesn't do anything, this does something, its like having an in home trainer

 

Its not that expensive, lieke Wii play sells the software and a Wiimote for 60, this is a pad and the software for 70, in fact its a bargain