Seriously if it's still there you could double your money... easy.

I find it a decent amount of fun.  The balance games are fun... and the rest of it seems like a pretty decent workout vs the "I do 50 situps a day" type workout.

My Girlfriend really likes it... she hardly misses a day.

selling hundreds really isn't that hard. Maybe you should rethink your argument.

Seriously, dude... go buy all 4 or whatever they have and check your other local stores.  Buy everything you can get your hands on.  Go to ebay and put them up with a buy it now for $150 with free shipping and you'll make a nice little profit.  Quit posting and go make some money.  Wii Fit is sold completely out across the U.S.  People would push a handicapped old lady to the ground, kick her, and steal her cane to get her Wiifit.  Yes, it's that bad.

Oh, and one more thing... The last 100 or so wiifits sold on Ebay have sold at a low of about 150 to a high of about 200. Get busy. Money to be made here.

But with Final Fantasy it's true.   Final Fantasy games are just like a lot of other mediocre JRPGs but they have moogles and the name Final Fanatsy.

I live pretty near the WV/PA border. What Wal-Mart are you talking about, because I will seriously drive for hours tomorrow night and buy every Wii Fit they have.

I don't think imaginary Wii Fit's sell as well as the real thing on eBay.

If it were that simple to just come up with a winning game plan and then let it run, everyone would be doing it. Nintendo would have done it with the N64 following the success of the SNES and then followed up again with the GC. As history would have it, that didn't happen.

It was Nintendo's conservative approach with the N64 that led to their loss of market dominance to the Playstation brand among other things. Primarily it was their insistance in keeping the ROM cart format when everyone else was going with cheaper, larger optical storage formats. I think that hurt the games more than anything in the end. Additionally, Nintendo's business practices in how they dealt third party developers had many searching for greener pastures. Nintendo has a history of being very controlling with their platforms. Even the cart decision was largely in part to deter easy piracy and receive more per unit in manufacturing costs relative to storage size.

They did the same thing with the GC by using a proprietary optical disc offering no advantages to developers, just a fraction of the storage space. Again, to deter piracy and keep their game format proprietary as a means of control.

After two mediocre generations, Nintendo had little to gamble and as a result, they gambled big with the Wii by moving in a lateral direction rather than a more expensive vertical direction with their hardware.

The result was accessibility, both in user interface, as well as user friendliness. Broadest appeal made even broader with a very modest price, relative to other current hardware. Wii Sports sold everyone on the accessibility of the controls and I'm still under the belief that it was the same level of killer app for the Wii that Super Mario Bros. was for the NES.

So the reason for success in one word: accessibility.

Wii Fit is really odd.  Many Wii owners here own it but no one I know IRL has it.  In fact, the game gets one big "Meh" from pretty much everyone I know.

I don't know who are buying all those copies of Wii Fit, but no one in my friend circle is.

 Okay, I can buy this. In that case, let's reevaluate. Wii Fit is certainly an accessible game; it's intended to be accessible to virtually everyone save perhaps the very young (under 10) who would rarely care about fitness products. This fits right into the mold you've described. In that case, Wii Fit is primarily selling because it's accessible and productive. Not primarily because of the Wii brand name.

This all draws back to Username's original post -- he was trying to discredit Wii Fit by insinuating that the game would not be selling if not for the name of the product. Apparently you agree that this isn't the case, as Wii Fit is in the mold you just described, and the mold you just described has produced mega-sellers for years now (not just Wii products, but Singstar too, for example).

Not that the Wii brand name isn't strong now, of course. I agree it is. Obviously on the flipside, there are still thousands if not millions of people who are buying a PS3 instead of a 360 simply because that's the brand they're used to, as well. I'm sure that's not something Username would point out incessantly, however.