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SvennoJ on 30 September 2013
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Adinnieken said:
Stefan.De.Machtige said:

That's the reason Wii fit sellls - it's a combination of light entertainment, exercise and price.

It's rather difficult to sell an expensive entertainment device as an intensive cardio program.

I disagree.  The reason Wii Fit sold so much so quickly is on the promise and belief that it could be a good exercise program.  I have a friend, very fit girl, who used it religiously but could never get anything out of it.  Eventually ended up going to a gym to workout.

It's a decent physical theraphy tool, do doubt about it.  When my father was receiving physical theraphy they used one with him, and even recommended buying one for him (he didn't want to spend the money on one).  That aside, Wii Fit doesn't really offer any benefit excercise wise.

The sad fact is you can sit all day in place, and you will still burn more calories than you will using Wii Fit for 30 minutes.  It just doesn't push you enough.  You have to get the heart rate elevated for a period of time to really benefit from any excercise program and the Wii Fit just doesn't do it.

It does get people moving, and it does get people thinking about excercise, but to say the Xbox One is significantly more expensive than the Wii with Wii Fit is just plain wrong.  If you, at the time it was first available, bought a Wii and Wii Fit, you'd have been paying $350 combined for an exercise routine that accumulatively did nothing for you of any significant benefit.

For $560, on Day One, you don't get one cardio workout, you have four.  Four routines that you can use throughtout the year to try and workout to to find which level of intensity meets your needs.  If you buy the P90X program and realize it just is too intense for you, you've wasted $300. 40% of monthly gym membership fees goes to waste annually.    So of the $660 people on average pay for a membership, $264 of it is wasted.  Every year!

My guess is Microsoft will offer both a yearly and per month sub for Xbox Fitness.  If so, my guess is both will be reasonable since there is little cost overhead. 

Don't write off Wii Fit so easily. It's a great combination of fun and excercise. Use a bit of imagination and Wii fit is a good tracking tool to keep you motivated. Add weights and extra reps to the strength training and you'll be sweating in no time. Do 80 to 100 push up and side planks in the time the game does 20 and tell me your heart rate is not elevated. The yoga is nice for stretching and still a good a challenge with the precision of the board. The games are fun to play against each other and already got the kids motivated into excercising. Plus there's 4 years of growth tracking on there. How is Kinect 2 going to track your weight?

The cardio part of Wii Fit is by far the weak part. Just go outside for that, or put on kung fu live for a half hour non stop round, or a bunch of fast tracks on the highest difficulty on DDR if the weather sucks. I'll try those with the Wii Fit meter when it comes out. I wonder how it stacks up against the calorie counter in DDR. Anyway there are plenty better alternatives to paying 2 subs.