Nintendo's Wii Fit unboxed
By Paul Miller 
posted Dec 3rd 2007 5:24PM
posted Dec 3rd 2007 5:24PM
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I can't believe it's come to this... exercising on a gaming console. Why don't people just go outside?
i'll wait till Wii outside comes out.
Yup. It has come to this. Not like it has EVER been seen or done before...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Pad
snow.
ice.
rain.
michigan.
Sadly not all of us live in sunny Southern Cali (or wherever you are). Where I'm at it has been 50mph winds and non-stop rain for a couple days. Fun to play basketball in this weather, or go for a run.
The Wii Fit is like a treadmill on fun steroids. Sounds good to me.
and those people that are exercising on a treadmill...come on... why don't they just go outside.
woh woh woh I was messing around!! I know my sarcasm isn't that fantastic but i'm probably getting one of these too, I live in Connecticut... it's pretty windy and snowy here too.
Bah! I was outside for 2 hours running earlier today for winter track practice. It was 12 degrees and snowing. And this was far from the worst we've run in. What's the most fun is when it's a complete white-out and you can barely see your feet. We do extra warm-up laps then, just to screw around.
Yea. In the 3 years I've been on the team, we've never had practice canceled, and there has only been one or two days we've stayed inside. You can exercise in any weather if you actually want to get in shape. And if you don't, why the hell are you wasting money on this thing? I have a feeling that most of the people who buy it will mess with it for a week or two and then it'll sit on a shelf gathering dust. Or find it's way to eBay.
Snow.
Ice.
Snow.
Flying Hockey Pucks.
Canada.
Have you seen the weather in London? I watched a small dog get blown down the road in a squall yesterday. It was very funny, but, I digress. If this attachment is the selling point for my girlfriend to get one, I'm all for it
haha that's the best comment i've seen in a while
Because going outside doesn't necessarily equal exercise.
Nintendo is the reason I never go outside anyways.
All those years of grooming, Preparing me to come to THIS.
Meh, I'll take my NES and PowerPad, thank you.
I can't wait to pick this up. For me exercise is about the motivation to do it in the first place, and this seems a lot more fun than "going outside". Especially when "outside" is dark and ~40 degrees, because it's night time and I just got out of work. As long as it covers the basics and gets my cardiovascular stuff going, I'm all for it.
And really, anybody who says Wii Fit is stupid is arguing AGAINST people getting exercise. Sometimes "going outside" is not practical or possible, so why not take your exercise however you can get it? And if it's done in the form of games and challenges, where's the harm in that? I can't imagine why anybody would have a problem with getting in shape and being entertained at the same time.
"Our bosom buddies over at Engadget Japanese got ahold of Nintendo's new Wii Fit and ran through the unboxing ritual for our sake"
So how much sake did you give the guys at Engadget Japan? Did you guys totally get plastered?
I didn't get an invitation to the International Engadget Drinking Party... lost in the mail?
I'm sure it was all confiscated. That's why we only got pictures. ;-)
i think this would be a good idea and would most likely get it to use if my school didnt have a new activities center that i get into for free :)
Does it have a football coach mode?
"RUN FASTER YOU PUSSY"
"MY GRANDMA HITS HARDER THAN THAT"
"YOU CALL THAT A PUSH UP??"
Come on Engadget, bust open that instruction manual and tell us fat Americans what the weight limit is.
300 for japan and it might be more for the us market.
It's over 9000.
Next time you throw around the words bosom and japanese make the links easier to find them
The (North) American version is delayed because they're having difficulty producing it with reinforced carbon fiber wrapped steel so it doesn't snap in half. ;)
Let's see some screen shots!
More like tritanium or neutronium. :)
It's only one player? It needs to be 4-player so you can have a mini yoga class in your living room.
i found this great website that shows how the wii fit was made and whats next for the wii. check it click here
So when is somebody going to hack this so i can finally have a cheap forceplate?
sorry just click Visit wii future plans
Preordered
in august
come on it's not like your going to burn any thing on that thing if you want a real video game work out go to dance dance rev. on the 360
All your body are belong to us.
You are on the way to big muscle
Wii Fit?. Wii Shit more like.
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Somebody make a NES Power Pad mod of this to work with the WII lawl.
Nice idea, than you