Wii Fit - The New Face of Gaming!

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*~Onna76~* said:
...Wii Fit is simply created as the media is so much nagging about the fact we have to care about our bodies, loose weight and look awesome. Wii Fit just happens to "fit" perfectly in the profile of the modern society, Ninty knows that.

  
With these two sentences Onna expresses exactly what I'm thinking about the recent WiiFit mass media coverage. I got the same bad feeling about Brain Training since a few months with all these beautiful and/or clever VIPs featured advertisements telling us to train our brains each day. I own Brain Training and it was fun for awhile but do I think that I'm smarter or even less forgetful than before? Not a second. But I think I need new glasses soon.

The advertisements and the media coverage are addressed to people's bad conscience and that's the problem I have with Nintendo's approach here. 

But I think that all of you, the proponents and opponents of games/applications like WiiFit are taking this too seriously. In the end these games/applications are just another trend to supply a want that's one of the funniest and saddest things about us humans: Our neverending and hopeless search for perfection and immortality. It's as old as mankind. 

Will WiiFit change the face of gaming? I don't think so, in my opinion it just broadens the games library and the diversity of distraction in modern, rich, bored society. 

And Dearest Frank: Yet another thread about this bloody topic to teach us the greatness of Nintendo's strategy? As I said in another one of those what seemed to be 150 WiiFit threads: I'd never blame WiiFit, I blame Jane Fonda. (I still love Barefoot in the Park, Barbarella & Klute though). The 70s were the last decade where we were allowed to bear our miserable existences without being reminded of our faults every day. Then Reagan, Thatcher & Hasselhoff took over and the decline started. 

Well usually successful products are born when there's a demand for them in the market. I also have both of the Brain Trainings and they are really fun games. Competing with my wife which one scores better is extremely fun. And the sudokus are a great way to pass time. And the games do improve your memory. You can notice it in a week or two.

Ajax said:
is any of you here actually playing Wii Fit? not just trying it once, but really 'playing' it? or do you just cheer cause it's a hit eventhough you don't see yourself doing a lot of wii fit?

I am. Although, it gets shadowed by Mario Kart and if you put yourself through a too hard exercise, you may want to skip a day or two. First time i did the exercises, my legs hurt 3-4 days. Even that i'm not in really good shape, i'm still not in that bad shape. It's just that keeping the COG where the board shows, when doing the workout, stresses the "supporting" muscles a lot more than they would stress otherwise.