It really is no use Rocket, you wouldn't believe how many discussions of the same caliber I've had in here. If you think beating sacred cows in India is bad; try Vgchartz'...

Exercise criteria (as pro's see it) is mostly leveled at a certain amount of intensity and strain on the human body versus the person's height weight and relative muscle-mass. Like RocketPig, and as a person who hangs out with everything from Pilates instructors to aerobics fanatics and bodybuilders and powerlifters; I really don't see it either. I'm sorry, but I just don't view that as an exercise accessory. You'd actually stimulate your body more by walking to the kitchen at a quick pace and putting the kettle on than from this, and that's not even a joke.

Say what you will as gamers; I'm a weightlifting geek as well, so this is not news to me. (Go ahead, tell me I'm ignorant because I have knowledge you might not). PS: This last bit is not aimed at you Mike.

"You'd actually stimulate your body more by walking to the kitchen at a quick pace and putting the kettle on than from this, and that's not even a joke."

Which parts of WiiFit are you referring to with "this"? Please name them.

All of them, obviously. Aerobic exercises and yoga are not aids to fitness anymore, apparently.

To read the pessimistic views of Wii Fit you'd think all this game does is have you stand on the board and touch your toes.

So what would you 2 like people to do, change their opinions because they are part of the majority? Also if you are both confident in your predictions then you can rub it in the face of half the site's members when they come off.

My opinion is that WiiFit has a great chance of breaking 10 mill and could possibly go on to be a 15-20mill+ seller depending on how well the actual console sells throughout the gen.

@ Rocketpig - look at Nintendogs and Brain Training for DS. They are aimed at completely different markets yet have sold 17 & 11(20 if you include the sequel) million respectively on a 65 mill userbase. Incidentally WiiFit will probably have a much bigger impact on your fitness than Brain Training has on your mental faculties.

P.S. I'm perfectly aware that you 2 could be right and I could be wrong, I'm not dismissing your opinions as garbage just because I favour N. 

The issue I take with those that would dismiss the potential of Wii Fit is that it seems the most common fall back argument I've read for why Wii Fit will fail is that it isn't "really" as good of exercise as just leaving your house and running around the block.

I think that's missing the point of why we have a 14 billion dollar fitness industry to begin with.

All of us have a basic understanding of general fitness and know common exercises that could be done everyday for free (push ups, sit ups, jogging) or with minimal equipment investment (bicycling).

What the majority of us lack though is a motivating factor that gets us from Point A to Point B. This is why such a cottage industry exists with exercise home videos.

Look at the myriad ab rockers and "crunch" assisting devices on the market. In many cases, probably the vast majority, these types of equipment and accompanying videos are nothing more than placebos, or at most motivational aids that get us to do things that we would not be driven to do ourselves without them.

I think arguing the merits of whether or not Wii Fit qualifies as a real, actual workout, is moot.

All that matters is whether or not people think it is giving them a workout. I believe it will succeed there -- same as Brain Training.

the problem with that logic is that eventually supply must meet demand, and then they won't have to stand in line

 and if supply doesn't meet demand, then there are well over 100 million wiis out there, so plenty of households that have a mom/dad that fit the wii fit demographic will buy the wii fit

 either supply reaches demand and then they can walk into a store and buy one with wii fit or supply doesn't meet demand and a huge % of households in the US end up with a Wii...u can't have it both ways

 Wii Fit will have long, long legs

Wii Fit will cost $100?

Now I have serious doubts of it becoming this huge uber selling game.

see, you guys fit into the 'workout' demographic...u guys run and may lift weights, etc

but the people who will mostly buy wii fit are the ones who sign a 3year contract for gym membership at 50/month and go maybe 2 times...the people who buy abcizers and thighmasters and the vibrating ab machine and all those other devices

that 14 billion industry in the US which is much larger than the gaming industry in the US

it's a bad argument to say we are predicting success just because it's a Nintendo product and thus a sacred cow

we are giving reasoning why we think it will sell well

as an aside, many of us believe there will be many games that utilize the balance board...and so many 'gamers' will also buy wii fit so that they can have the balance board

and again, wii is played by the WHOLE FAMILY, which is something that didn't happen with other consoles

so junior will play ssbb, etc while jr and sis will play mario kart and mom/dad will play wii fit...and they'll all play wii sports together

lol if this is a success in the US and Europe hundreds of thousands of Wii Fit will find themselves beneath the Teleshop Stairmaster and Thigh-Shaper in the cellar in a couple of weeks. But I doubt it will sell outside Japan.