Wii fit is selling like gangbusters in Europe
By Paul Miller 
posted April 28th 2008 11:12AM
posted April 28th 2008 11:12AM
posted April 28th 2008 11:12AM
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someone at Nintendo will get a nice bonus.
don't you mean boner?
Aren't you the fucking business man
So when can we Americans get our fat ass hands on this?
As long as someone is going to deliver it to me... I ain't getting off my couch and driving all the way down to Target, then walking to the other side of the store and back, then waiting in line, then driving all the way home again, etc.
And I'll be damned if I'm gonna bend over to plug it in, either.
@ NHAnimator: my point exactly. UPS guy better be ready to upack and install this thing.
america can has wii fit when europe can has rock band
stop complainin you had to wait another month, ive been waiting 6 months more than you for rock band
rock band > wii fit
I'm gonna have Best Buy deliver it and install it for me since they seem to install 360 games:
http://consumerist.com/381845/let-best-buy-professionally-install-your-xbox-games
I don't know about you but I put my feet on them to play. Would be interesting to see video of people playing wii fit upside-down on their hands....
well I reckon the nintendo boffins are working on a special reinforced edition for the US market
Console War...what console war, Wii blew everyone out of the water. ( = I love Nintendo! And don't go posting crap about how it lacks power, we all know that, the fact still remains it killed every other console in sales hands down.
Um, PS2?! Now be still you wig wearing hump.
Lol, (I kid, I kid ;^)...
You're claiming the way the Wii 'won' the console war was because it sold the most?
Why do you think more people drive Hondas than Ferraris?
It all boils down to price... the cheaper it is, the better it sales and that is directly proportional to the current console standings.
Apples to Oranges.
Video games are meant to be fun not look nice. Graphics aren't everything you know.
I really wish people would stop worrying about "console wars" or who "won". The Wii has good games. The 360 has good games. The PS3 has good games. The games I play on the Wii are drastically different then the ones I'll play on the other two consoles.
Here in Portugal WiiFit is at the top in most of the shops.
And we don't have a very big installed base of Wii's.
And we're buying it at 99€! Nintendo's owner in Portugal sucks a lot
Wii fit is fine and dandy but tell me this, what exactly is a "gangbuster"?
I think Paul was going to say "hot cakes"
I wouldve said gutbusters wouldve been a joke on entirely a different level, as in cakes bust gut rumbles, and also the excersize will bust that gut :P
That phrase is right up there with having to "piss like a Russian race horse". What does that even mean?
The phrase is actually "Piss like a rushing race horse" but over the years it has been bastardized into "piss like a russian race horse"
I'm torn between pre-ordering and waiting to see what Costco's supply is like. I picked up GHIII from Costco for ~$10 less than everywhere else when it was first released.
well you know....wii started out as a small console for kids and now the whole population uses it. Whoever can get their hands on it..they use it and nintendo is getting a good ass profit
yes, but Nintendo users buy less games, read this:
"The average Wii owner buys only 3.7 games a year, compared with 4.7 for Xbox 360 owners and 4.6 for PlayStation 3 owners"
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/technology/21wii.html?ref=technology
Maybe buy less games than the other console users, which goes to show that the Wii games are much more enjoyable, as well as not hurting Nintendo at all with regards to profits as they make a profit on the hardware itself!
Actually the Wii on average has 6.07 games per console
http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=15039
People buy gangbusters?
They won't buy gangbusters when I unleash the gangbuster-buster.
or if i open my can of whoop-ass
talk about instant gratification. heck, I do want my game AND exercise in one. Damn you Nintendo and you're smart planning!!! damn you!!!
I have Wii Fit, and I will testify that it is one of the best things I've seen on a console. It truly isn't just running and press ups like a lot of people think. There are great balance exercizes, yoga, muscle workouts and more. It keeps you playing too, coz there are rewards for doing more work. Seriously, people - buy it! (Love from Mario)
Ironically, when you discover they're back ordered for months, you can still get a fantastic workout *throwing* a Fit!
I might jump on this. Hopefully it has more software support than did my less fortunate friend Giromite :(
Is this the thing that doesn't really cause you to burn any calories or something?
Wasn't there a story a month or two ago about that?
I'd question your body if running, push-ups and squats burns NO calories.
How can you run on this? How is it healthy to do push-ups on an uneven surface? Don't you do squats with weights?
Did you folks at Engadget ever dream that you still be writing about shortages when the Revolution (Wii) was first announced?
I need to find a store that actually sells the Wii before I can get the fit
I presume the reason they're being released in Europe and Japan first is that they're desperately trying to reinforce the damn thing before subjecting it to the American market?
Or are they just presuming that anything to do with fitness, and indeed with "Fit" in the title isn't worth launching in the States in a rush?
Oh yes, I went there. Watch me hit Low ranked in record time!
What did I ever do to you?
Our Wii Fit arrived today from Amazon - too busy with Mario Kart to get it out of the box though. ;)
I was surprised to see how many Wii Fit packages were available in the UK over the past few days.
There was much talk of how pre-orders were sold out and shops would be the same, but you could walk into any shop (that sold them) in the city I live in and several were stacked in each.
*thinks*
and you are sure that the WiiFit is not among the dozens of controller options for Mario Kart?
Now back to finishing all the 150cc cups.
So will this be in short demand for 2 years too?
Amazon.com has wii fit's for preorder right now, $89. I just got three :D
Congratulations, Nintendo. You've successfully marketed "standing on a sheet of plastic" as a video game.
and did they successfully market "holding a piece of plastic?" or "playing a plastic axe?" or "inserting a piece of spinning plastic?" or...
db2, you're an idiot. I have an idea where you can shove a piece of plastic.
i second that
I seriously wish I knew what the japanese one is telling me what to do but my language skills are not that great i guess. What I can get it to do is some of the tests and i know they better reprogram it for America. 1st. the weights scales say you are fat if you are about a buck 60 (160 for all of those who missed it) and further 2. your Mii gets fat - tubby- chunky- avg- skinny depending on your weight and how you do in the tests. I can see someone crying intentional infliction of emotion distress in a lawsuit already because Nintendo hurt their self esteem because they only weigh two bills.
They've been doing that since the 80's