WiiFit gonna make you sweat

Wait..Kenshin..are you telling me you'd rather listen to music or watch TV when doing aerobic exercises than a generic 3d rendered person? Can't be!

I understand that Nintendo is trying to broaden their target market...this just seems silly. Who knows though...it seems like anything with the Nintendo brand name is selling like hot cakes right now.

Yourself! Fitness did pretty well on the original Xbox, so who knows?

Miyamoto knows English IIRC.

I wish they'd ditch those stupid Miis. Their big heads and bland clothing are annoying.

Antonio, if he knows English then why does he need a translator?

Because he has a strong accent and its easier to understand the translator

Why is "makes me cry" the new buzzphrase for gaming nerds? Get a freaking life.

That's quite the profound intellectual leap you make there. Jokingly saying that something makes me cry now means I don't have a life? I bet you go clubbing all night, right? You a ladies man, no doubt about it. No, you're a social crusader, righting all of societies wrongs. You spend all day at a soup kitchen, feeding the poor. Or maybe you're writing the definitive work on quantum theory. Whatever you do, it's a life. Do you realize how mindless and petty you sound when you insult someone for using what you consider a tired phrase, and then end your post with the undisputed champion of tired phrases?

thanks someone for realizing this is just the new powerpad. and just to let you know i loved my powerpad, it was the only thing that got all of the kids in the house playing together, which is one of the key points of the wii. the potential for this new hardware is huge, im just a bit disappointed in all the negative nancy's out there that just assume that nothing creative can come out of this

ZOMG KONNY U R SO KEWL

I'm always amazed at the lack of imagination shown by the sort of harcore gamers that, well, read sites dedicated to gaming. I'd always assumed that it was a demographic particularly well suited to flights of fancy when presented with new and shiny toys.

Here you have a peripheral that a) can detect body motion to a relativley high degree of accuracy, b) will sell a ton of units and c) be cheap enough to pack in with a game if necessary. This is coupled to a control system that can sense the motion of your hands and allows a great deal of flexibility with traditional control setups. And yet thousands of people can see no use for this outside of the Wii Fit program Nintendo demo'd today?

At the very least you could couple this with the Zapper to give a very cool game of Time Crisis where you actually duck for cover rather than hit a pedal. Same goes for FPS games of course, and I would have thought that the potential in some sports games would be obvious. Apply this technology to Wii Sports and you could actually get enough input to the system to translate not just what the racket / bat / club is doing but what the player is doing as well. SSX is another obvious one of course, and you could certainly integrate it with fighting games reasonably well too (although more Super Smash Brothers than Virtua Fighter I suspect).

But it seems people would just rather whine about how Nintendo doesn't care about the hardcore anymore. Despite the fact that they showcased four of the biggest games of the next year at this event (SSB, Mario Galaxy, Metroid, Zelda) but why spoil a good rant? Are Nintendo exclusivley focused on the hardcore? No, and thank god for that, at least someone is trying to do something new (and this from the owner of a 360, PS2, Wii, DS and gaming PC by the way so no, not a fanboy).

steve- i think we can come up with uses for it. but this is what ninny came up with. more casual games for the masses (*snicker*... that's a pun). maybe if they showed us the next goldeneye on it, i'd be a little more excited.

Yea hes crazy cause "stupid casual games" he makes have outsold even the ahol series or any other blockbusters in recent memory.

that wiifit will sell millions, trust me, and think of the implications for strafing or something in an FPS, or running on the spot for the mario and sonic olympics…...it can be for the hardcore as well...

It REALLY INCENSES ME how some fanboys are like IWANTKIDICARUSMARIOGALAXYMETROID3KIDICARUSHARDCORELEVENTYONE!!!!!what people have got to realise is that nintendo is just like any other company in existence, they set out to make money, not to please their fans, no matter how much you think they love you, all that matters to them and their shareholders is money in pocket, and this is precise business sense, this will definitely be a hit, its a genius idea.

also, why not cater more for the expanded market, if you look at the percentages, theres a much much much bigger potential market than actual market, it just makes sense to go for them, they know mario glaxy and mario kart will sell, they don’t need to show it off, it is unimportant, especially at a worldwide conference where the world is watching, it is the place perfect for expanded market, wii fit will catch the headlines and imaginations MUCH MUCH better to MANY MANY more people than a MMO or FPS for wii. and in turn this greater advertises the wii, its actually genius by nintendo.

This is just further evidence that Chad is a moron

Where are the hardcore titles? Zelda and...?

Metroid, Mario Galaxy

and Smash Bro and Madden

that's it? titles we knew would hit the system before it was released. meanwhile, the 360 cup runneth over. now if the damn thing would just work, we could all have some fun.