| Bladeneo said: Wii Fit will sell big, but people using its numbers over the HOLIDAY PERIOD as evidence for it selling big all year round is stupid. I can see who it will attract, and I think it will get alot of sales (not 15 million like people are predicting), but whether or not people actually use it is another matter but in this situation all people care about are sales and not product useage. Im much happier paying my £25 a month to go to the gym three/four times a week than buy Wii Fit. You can go out and buy balance boards and instruction DVD's, but I dont see many people doing that to be honest. Maybe in the mid 90's, but I havent seen it since then. People claiming WiiFit constitutes the same amount of exercise as..well...actual exercise should spend 2 hours at a gym. If WiiFit has me sweating all over after 2 hours Ill stand corrected, but I dont see it happening. |
Using holiday sales numbers will make any product look good. But even in the best month of the year, in a country where people go nuts over such things; 2nd week sales were only about half of 1st week sales, and 4th week sales have been roughly half that again. This is one of the reasons I think it won't do well, especially in slower months. And the price is another issue, the price is the Wii's best card on hand any way you spin it, and purchasing a very expensive game (it is expensive) for a cheap console makes little sense even to casuals.
I'm not entirely opposed to the concept of WiiFit, but aside from push-up's, I haven't seen a single exercise I'd recommend for getting into any kind of shape. Someone mentioned jogging; tell you what: make an obese American jog on his hard living room floor for a few weeks, then send him to a physical therapist and a chiropractor and have them tell you how good that idea was. Trust me, I'm a heavy man myself (nearing 125 kilo's) and I get pains in my body if I run on hard surfaces. I'd not recommend jogging on any hard surface actually, regardless of weight.
So, like I said; the idea itself is good, but this will be no revolution neither for the fitness nor gaming bussiness. Feel free to think so however, but I won't.
