How would you change Wii Fit?
By Darren Murph 
posted Jun 13th 2008 6:30PM
posted Jun 13th 2008 6:30PM
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more availability!
or for the people who have one: more games.
I want 1080 snowboarding that uses the board and the wiimote
i want a ceiling mount so i can do pull ups....... i'm sick of push ups. ;)
MAKE IT FOR XBOX 360
Make it so you don't have to go through menu after menu between exercises.
Having one in any one of the major retailers within a reasonable radius of ~25 miles would be a great start.
Other than that, I can't tell ya. It's impossible to find. Perhaps that's the point, all the walking you do around retail stores hunting for one is supposed to get you in shape (I kid).
Make enough of them so people like me can actually buy one, use one, and then make a proper suggestion for improvement based on having actually used it.
I would assume the most popular answer is: "MAKE IT AVAILABLE!!"
Eh... it's not that hard to get one if they're in stock. Stand outside and show some dedication for like... a half an hour.
Come on, I sat outside for 13 hours for a Wii six days before Christmas. (2006)
huh? the wii and fit are everywhere now. Go to any store and just buy one.
@ james
Where do you live? Alabama? Missouri? Kentucky? I could go on, but I'll stop there. Neither the Wii nor the Wii Fit are available widespread except in unpopulated redneck hick-towns.
Lawl. I get low-ranked by a bunch of people who are lazy and don't want to waste their time.
How'sa 'bout this, you get off your ass an hour early on a Sunday morning when the Wii or Wii Fit is in the ad for a place, and you'll have a shot at getting one.
How hard is it, hm?
13 hours is hard core, I waited in line for two, got mine on black friday. Granted, it was 4:30 in the morning, but still...
The board is fine, but if it needs to be changed I'd make it higher for the stepping program. The software, on the other hand, can use a makeover. It needs to be more of a workout routine or be able to set it that way, like 3 reps of 15 with one exercise or something like that. Having to press buttons each time a thing is over is crazy.
Yeah, like a custom workout were you can do continuous games without stopping in between each one.
This is totally my #1 complaint with it.
It would be awesome if you set your goal, then an actual training program is put together to get you there. It would also be nice if you could identify problem areas - legs, abs etc. so the program targeted those.
A real personal trainer keeps on you to make sure you are actually working, and will mix up the exercises to keep it interesting - you feel like you reach your goal together.
For all that Wii is more engaging, I wish the trainer took your through your entire workout. "Let's go for a run", "now lets do some torso twists ..." etc.
Agreed, and give us some incentive to do our work out. Getting a "stamp" just for standing on the thing is pretty lame.
I'm interested to see how this Jillian Michaels (??...Biggest Loser trainer) program will work with the board.
I agree. Even the original Wii game, Wii Sports, had a daily training set. It randomly picks 3 things to have you do for the day and then it gave you your age. The Wii fit software should either randomly pick a workout set for you based on time (or other factor) or let you custom design one.
There is something Nintendo having 'feet extensions' for particularily shaggy carpets, maybe they would help to make it a bit higher too.
And yep, my No1 change would be for some automatic routines, for specific types of workouts, and save all that menu crunching. If we could get fit from menu crunching, we'd all be superfit by now.
Make it into a white iPhone?
So I can shove it up your ass?
you post about Apple so much, it's almost funny.
That "almost" is gonna sting
Turn it into the Wii Couch, or better yet the Wii Hammock.
epic fail
if you were predicting your own, bravo sir.
I definitely have to echo Nathan's comment regarding the ability of having a 'routine' walk you through a bunch of different exercises, instead of requiring the user to stop, click, decide, wait, etc.
The Body Test already randomizes the balance games. Simply take a selection of the available exercises and fire them off one after the other.
Multiplayer or online option. It would be great if I could compare rhythm boxing scores with friends. Also make a "queue" of exercises-games to be played so the workout/fun/embarrassment doesn't become interrupted. Those frequent pauses are buzz-kills.
Have it come with your very own personal Sexy trainer.
Speaking of sexy trainer, my girlfriend says the woman trainer's boobs look too weird in the game.
too weird = A Cup?
I thought it was funny the first time she gave me the option "to view her from the back". Strip Wii Fit would get my butt off the couch in no time.
"my girlfriend says the woman trainer's boobs look too weird in the game."
As my wife is fond of saying... you know those aren't real, right?
Instead of telling people they're overweight or obese, I'd have it say "Whoa tubby, go slit your wrists. Seriously!" *pure sarcasm*
Joking aside, there is probably some PC way to let people know they need to shed a few lbs. Nintendo, instead, chose the brief way of telling people, which has received a little negative press. I'd suggest they change the messages, even though it is perhaps a very small complaint.
Yeah. I totally agree.
When it told me I was over weight I got like a little depressed and didn't touch my Wii Fit for days.
Even when my boyfriend played it, he was a little sad.
It could definitely be nicer
Remember, it comes from the country that is now punishing men who have a waistline larger than 33 1/2 inches...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/366238_japandiets09.html
That is the PC way, it's the proper terminology. Wouldn't it be worse if it was "well, you could stand to loose a few pounds," or even "above average" either way, I think it'd just be condescending at that point.
"Overweight" and "Obese" are the medical terms your doctor would use if you would ask him about your weight.
It didn't say, "Hey lardass, get off of me" or something like that. It simply states a fact. Your bathroom scale and your mirror deliver the very same message and you are not mad at them.
I suppose you all already knew your "state" and that's why you got a Wii Fit in the first place. So stop jammering and start working out. :-)
Made to handle the average US citizens' weight
Yes that would be 200lbs
ROFL ... slice and bake ....
wait - ur serious? ... (ouch) ummm .... yeah ... ummm - yeah, this is awkward - maaan - anyways more power to you - PEACE
At least we are not socially irrelevant like Europe.
Poematik14 - go suck it.
How about a slightly higher weight limit. 350 or 375 would be nice. Isn't the idea of this to lose weight and be fit? Nintendo should know that the vast majority of us Americans are overweight and a good number are morbidly obese. I had gastric bypass surgery, but I am still about 20 lbs shy of the weight limit :( Mine just sits in the box for the time being.
Plastic only has so much strength, I think the current weight is fine it's not like the Wii Fit was made for morbidly obese people to lose hundreds of pounds on, more for normal sized people to stay fit.
MeatPop, you are a moron. I don't know what it is but something about you is strikingly wrong....Way to insult people, genius....You could have just stopped at "Plastic only holds so much weight" but you had to continue with saying that Wii Fit is for people to keep fit...and that the weight limit is fine by you. Well here's a tip: The world doesn't answer to you and certainly doesn't value your opinion nor does it care for it.
Bill I hate to break this too you but the vast majority of Americans may be overweight, but not in the 300+ range. Hell I'm about 50-60LBS over my target. Not to be insensitive but 300+ would require some pretty harsh reinforcement of the Fit to handle that.
are you saying that you are seriously over 300 lbs?! maybe nintendo will opt for a disability discount or something . . .
and yet it already tells me not to jump...
just out of curiosity: will the game let you go on even if you're over the limit? or will it just refuse?
I think you have to realize that the Wii originates from Japan; a 300 pound Japanese person in Japan is like almost nonexistent , let alone 200 pounds...
So granted, I think the weight limits are correct.
Sumo?