| bdbdbd said: But, after all, i guess whether the game is a "game" or "exercise program" depends only about how you are going to use it. It's a game for one guy and exercise program for another. Although, you propably quickly focus on it as a game, since it really is fun. |
I agree it all depends on how you use it, but where I make a distinction on calling it a game or not a game, is based on what the developer was thinking when they created it.
If EA made an Olympics Game, and the only focus of the game was to make it fun, so for example they don't care if a certain activity gets your heart rate to a level, and keeps it there, or if an activity causes you to rest between them because they were to strenuous, I would call it a game, because fun is the primary focus.
WiiFit does care about those things, and thus when they make the "game", they constrain it in a way to improve your physical well being. That makes it not so much a game, and more an exercise program.
You could use the fictitious EA game to lose weight, or use WiiFit as nothing more than a collection of mini games that use a balance board, but that does not change what it was put on the market to do.
Get people in shape :)
