Played the Nintendo Wii, now play fro Fit…
For years, video games have been blamed for turning users into idle layabouts who only venture off the couch to fill up on potato chips , especially us computer geeks who love gaming as well.
Nintendo Co Ltd now aims to shatter that image with a game that aims to get players off the couch and lead them to stretch, shake and sweat their way to a healthy life.
“Wii Fit,” which arrives on Monday, is expected to draw new customers to Nintendo’s wildly popular Wii video game console.
It is forecast to be the industry’s latest blockbuster game after last month’s “Grand Theft Auto 4,” the criminal action title that racked up $500 million in global sales in one week.
The Wii has proven to be the runaway hit of the video game industry, thanks to its easy-to-learn motion-sensing controller, simple games and low price.
U.S. consumers bought 714,000 Wiis in April, nearly double the sales of Microsoft Corp’s Xbox 360 and Sony Corp’s PlayStation 3 combined.
At the other end of the spectrum from “Grand Theft Auto 4,” “Wii Fit” coaches players through more than 40 exercises that range from tightrope-walking to yoga stances to push-ups.
The $90 game comes with a shoulder-width “balance board” that senses tiny shifts in a person’s posture and is used to control a cartoonish character on the TV screen.
It is shaping up to be the latest in a string of hits for the Osaka, Japan-based company, which has tapped a rich vein of previously undiscovered mass-market interest in gaming with the Wii and titles like “Wii Play.”
“Wii Fit” has sold more than two million units in Japan since its launch late last year, and Nintendo says interest is “strong” in Europe, where it went on sale last month.
The interactive nature and possibility of new games and features down the road may help “Wii Fit” avoid the fate of the innumerable health fads whose appeal fades after a few months.
“It is a perfect intersection of entertainment with health and fitness and I don’t think anyone’s been able to pull that off,”
The seeds for “Wii Fit” were planted four years ago, before the Wii had even been developed, when Miyamoto went on a diet and started graphing his daily weight. He began thinking about a game that would let people track their own body mass.
“I don’t think Wii Fit’s purpose is to make you fit. What it’s actually aiming to do is make you aware of your body.”
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