"Rather than calculating players' weight and offering a friendly helping hand on the road to physical fitness, some [citation needed] Wii Fit users are worried that the software could be shattering the impressionable psyches of young 'uns when it mistakenly labels them as overweight.
A member of DISBoards writes that her healthy and active ten-year-old relative was 'devastated' when Wii Fit deemed that she was a little on the heavy side, and that the family "had to work hard to convince her that she isn't." [This section may be misleading due to the use of 'weasel words']
In the light of a media culture where 'thin is beautiful', could the huge popularity of the Wii Fit Balance Board and the sometimes-inaccurate BMI measurement scale [citation needed] be the catalyst for even more trouble as the game sets sits sight on the US - or is it all just a case of overreacting?
DISBoards' forumites seem to think so, with one suggesting a letter of complaint to Nintendo would be the way forward."
If you have any evidence that the BMI calculator is occasionally wrong by a considerable margin, I will listen to you, otherwise this post fails miserably
Would you prefer if WiiFit lied to these overweight people, or told them the truth?
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