http://the-magicbox.com/0906/game090612d.shtml

Here are some new images of Nintendo's Pokemon Heart Gold & Soul Silver for Nintendo DS, the game will be bundled with a pedometer called Poke Walker. You can send one of your Pokemon to the pedometer and walk around with it, and the Pokemon will earn experience points and "watts", which can be redeemed as money. The Pedometer can be sync-up with the DS using infrared signals.

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Whoa, very unexpected. Its like a little digital pedometer, that tracks a selected Pokemon *outside* of the DS?

Cool idea... :)

Bundled with it?

That sounds very useful, especially for the purposes of grinding

My legs are rare candy!?

I do roughly 80 miles a day normally about 110~130 on tour.

I will not be 'cheating' by using this device. I will remain true to my copy of Crystal and grind through hundreds of Zubat-owning Rocket Grunts and five-Magikarp trainers.

this is a nice option i guess, Nintendo sure likes to keep us fit ;)

i dont really walk that much.... i'll use it while playing soccer xD

Oh the Japanese will go crazy over that haha.

Wow, that's a lot. What requires you to walk/run that much?

Well, at least my treadmill time will come in handy here.

Didn't think about the potential for cheating - stick the pedometer in some shaking device? I guess Nintendo will limit what can be done with it level-wise...