Nintendo should send them a thank you letter for this.  

http://www.techspot.com/news/29980-microsoft-sponsors-national-family-fitness-day-with-xbox.html

Microsoft sponsors National Family Fitness Day with Xbox
By Justin Mann, TechSpot.com
Published: May 8, 2008, 3:13 PM EST

If you have made an amazing headway into the console market from scratch, what's your next move? For Microsoft, it's encouraging people to stop playing games. Well, kinda. The Xbox 360 is teaming up with the BGCA to launch the “National Family Fitness Day”, a program designed to encourage people to exercise more and sit around less.

But naturally, they aren't going for this completely in the name of charity. Microsoft will use the event to push gaming as an option for staying fit, putting Dance Dance Revolution 2 on the center stage as an icon of active gaming. The Nintendo Wii definitely has a one-up on them in this category, and Microsoft now wants to pursue this lucrative market composed of casual gamers, all while trying to change the notion of a gamer lifestyle being unhealthy.

lol, don't forget ace combat's flight stick controller.... you could sweat a whole lot like that too.

is it me or are microsoft literally after nintendo now.

That sounds kinda stupid. Promote exercise with a system that only has a couple of 3rd party games that are actually physically active.

I think this will backfire on them. People will just relate this idea of gaming + exercise with the Wii and Wii Fit.

More like desperation at this point.

Really, MS is just being stupid. They need to do one thing really well and focus on that instead of half hearted attempts at everything. IMO, they are really lacking any type of leadership right now. Without a captain at the helm, the ship is going astray. 

................... nice...........

@DOATS1

Microsoft is after whoever is #1. They always have been, and always will be. They successfully destroyed Sony (even if all they did was convince Sony to follow their footsteps), and now they are gunning for Nintendo.

The problem with them gunning for Nintendo though, is they are copying Nintendo, not trying to get Nintendo to copy them. If Nintendo ever copied Microsoft, they would collapse from massive losses and go bankrupt.

i'm really not liking microsofts 'rip-off what ever is popular' strategy. just because it works for nintendo doesn't mean it's going to work for them. same thing applies to sony, as they do it to an extent too, but microsoft just go all out. originality got nintendo this far, they should try it one day.

 successfully destroyed Sony? please tell me how Microsoft has destroyed Sony.

I bet DDR is more of a workoud than WiiFit. DDR just doesn't keep track of your progress.