It's official: Wii Fit priced at $90

by Christopher Grant on Apr 15th 2008 10:16AM

No big surprises here – Gamestop already let the pricing details slip out from under Nintendo's iron grip – but just as impressions of the game slash exercise peripheral are being published all over the web, the Big N has made it all official. Wii Fit (and the Wii Balance Board of course) will be released on May 19th for a suggested retail price of $89.99.

But if you're not content with just a game and balance board peripheral and you happen to reside in or around the island of Manhattan, Nintendo has a special treat for you.The first 1000 people to drop a $5 pre-order for the gear at New York City's Nintendo Word Store from April 18 - 20 will be rewarded with a Wii Fit t-shirt featuring the likeness of game designer (and weight watcher) Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto. We're really hoping he's rocking the Richard Simmons short shorts, tank top combo.

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Tags: balance-board, BreakingNews, Nintendo, Wii, Wii-Fit

Reader Comments (131)

Its Offcial, too f'ing expensive for a hunk of plastic you stand on

I agree. What a rip off. It should be $60 the software for the Wii fit probably took pennies to make in comparison for other games Nintendo sells for $50.

And the sad thing is it will still sell a ton.

It probably won't help you lose weight but it will definately lighten your wallet.

In before Fernando saying this is reasonable.

Being expensive isn't my problem, buying it in the first place is.

WARNING If any of you Joystiqrz buy this, I will disown you, please do not support Nintendo in doing this crap.

I don't even think Fernando defends this... that means stay away.

Say hello to the new Apple.

"We charge what we want, because we know you'll buy it anyway!"

$89.99 is not too bad, and how much you wanna bet that some folks that consider it a "rip-off" are the same bozos that bought the $140 cat helmet edition of Halo 3?

Value is beauty....all in the eye of the beholder.

"Say hello to the new Apple.

'We charge what we want, because we know you'll buy it anyway!'"

Well then in that case - "Say hello...to iBoard."

Calling it a hunk of plastic is very ignorant. A lot of time goes into the production of something like that, it's not just plastic that you stand on. Read the Wii Fit Iwata Asks at Wii.com, gather a knowledge for how it was developed, what it actually does, and then make a comment.

Please, for your own sake.

@velocitystrike

You're right!

I should be calling it a useless piece of plastic.

How long did it take them to lower the price of Virtual Boy?

about as long as it took them to develop the N64 disk drive

Christopher Grant

Tisk tisk, that should have read...

It's official: Wii Fit *overpriced at $90

;)

That's $90 too much when I can run outside and work out for free

Are you kidding me? The RRP of Wii fit in the UK is £70, or $140. Why must we always be continually ripped off?

@ Synner,

thats pretty high paid bus driver the average Wage in the UK is £13,000 per annum or £6.77 per hour, now before you state we get free healthcare etc we pay 21% Tax on that figure and 4% National Insurance making the avaerage wage £5.08 per hour net

In the UK the cost of Living is Higher, The Cost of Electronics in Europe Generally is Higher,

So do americans get pay $10.00 per hour on average? and if they do do they pay $10.00 for an extra value meal, and if they do then its around the same and no one get s ripped off but i suspect here in UK `We Get Ripped Off` Hence RIP OFF BRITAIN!

Italians commenting on the state of economics in UK vs US is laughable!

Well, if $10 per hour is pretty crappy, then $60 seems about right for a game. I earn an equally crappy £5 per hour, which turns out to be $10 on the echange rate. But I pay £40-50 per game. So it's 6 hours' work in the US, and up to 10 hours' work in the UK, to buy one game.

McDonalds costing £6-7? Are you having the McCaviar?

A value meal is anything from £3.29 to £3.79.

Wii Shit is not worth the $90 for a bunch of shallow minigames. here's an idea: if people really want to lose weight, spend the $90 on a gym membership or a tennis racquet. shame on you Nintendonald's for treating obese people like a bunch of Swiss cows.

to Synner:

first off, ive been meaning to tell you that your nick and your avator make you look like a fucking retard. i bet you're an A-grade pussy in real life. seriously, get rid of the machine gun, you're reminding me of the Virginia Tech killer.

second, PS3 is the BMW 7 Series of this gen. its the expensive steak you get at a 7-star hotel. its the Nobel-prize winning supermodel with brains and beauty.

finally, Nintendonald's is the plague of this industry as McDonald's is the plague of the food industry. overcharging on mediocrity has become the new Nintendonald's DNA.

You just earned yourself a (from reading through your history, long overdue) ban.

FINALLY!!! Bravo!

What? Did he really finally get banned? Hurray!!!!!!

Boooooo!!

I liked Curmeo.

I did not think he was mean or threatening or malicious with his posts. Yes they were VERY biased towards Sony and against Nintendo, but I do not understand the big deal with banning him. If you do not like what he has to say....how about not reading it.

I do not like alot of the things Fernandos says, but I will never ask for a ban on him or anyone. Even when he threatened a couple of other posters. Geez people, they are just WORDS.

But it is not my blog so who am I to say what should or should not be done.

Just my 2 cents...thats all.

I liked Curmeo to Matt, outlandish sure, but funny sometimes. I know some of you hate me and wish for my banning but all I can say is why? I know that I can be a bit to sarcastic sometimes but really guys, I come here for two things...news and entertainment with the comments on Joystiq posts. It makes the workday go by so much faster. In my opinion, having "rabid" fanboy rants on certain posts makes for a much more interesting experience.

I will miss his fanboyism for all of .1241 milliseconds.

You really don't think he should have been banned? Did you read his comment? Sure I don't agree with anything he, you, or fernando say a lot of the time but that doesn't matter, it's about video games. His post was totally crazy and had nothing to do with video games.

Fernando might be trolling but he never insulted anybody.

Ahhh he'll be back, Curmeo 2.0 next week or even later on this afternoon. lol! I think this time around teh banz was merited.

"Fernando might be trolling but he never insulted anybody."

Even if you post it 2wice it does not make it come true.
Dude, what comments of Fernandos HAVE you read? Most of the time he insults me or other pro-Sony posters to the point of actual physical threats.

He routinely uses colorful language in his posts directed at me or some other Sony supporter.

Like I said, it does not bother me no matter what Fernandos says....but c'mon brother

DONT KID YOURSELF, Fernandos is the BIGGEST name caller on this blog.

The Ban-Hammer strikes!

F-Yeah! Woohoo!

*hi^5s random people*

Where's the beer!?

unless Grant permabans me, i am back as Curmeo 2.0. i will tone it down on this blog of limited speech. Synner was asking for it for quite a while though.

@Ken

Please show me a post where he has said anything remotely like that.

Mr. Grant I owe you a handshake.

Yeah, I called it! Curmeo 2.0 =P So this is great I can spew profanities and pointless crap all I want and just come back as a 2.0!! FTW!

Kidding of course...

Everyone knows Curmeo 2.0 is just 2 ordinary Curmeos duct-taped together!

Alright, perhaps Curmeo deserved it, but what's with the double standard? Synner's still around and as offensive as ever; Fernando was banned once, returned wearing the four-five and is now worse than ever. I say it's time to go Kotaku with the banhammer!

Sega: Hardcore gamers shouldn't be 'excommunicated' from Wii {Joystiq}
Mar 6th 2008 4:39PM
And believe... I swear that if someday, for thing of destiny or something, I ever see you in person, I will punch your fucking face and kick your ass, literally.

Sega: Hardcore gamers shouldn't be 'excommunicated' from Wii {Joystiq}
Mar 6th 2008 4:49PM
Really, I'm not kidding... I hope someday we meet in a Joystiq meeting or something... I will fucking beat you up. No joking.

Sega: Hardcore gamers

I am not going to keep digging, if you want more...do it yourself eh?

now now Fenix, Synner more than deserved my insult to him. if you check his history, he's done the same to me numerous times which were forgiven.

Curmeo

I actually have no problem WITH ANYONE on here. The "FINALLY Bravo" comment to Chris G was just because I really didnt think they used the banhammer up in here. Like I said in a post before, your comments make me laugh and I enjoy reading them. "Nintendonalds" that shizz right there is classic man. And about synner, well Ive never had any run-ins with him...YET lol so I dont really care.

Well its not like he wont be back under a new name...

"Well its not like he wont be back under a new name..."

Um...read what your replying to, he already is back.

Speaking of things that are long overdue, Chris:

http://tinyurl.com/3ddxc9

Hehe, thanks Donald.

In general, we're pretty forgiving of the comments but if I see personal attacks or comments that aren't related to gaming, they'll get deleted and/or banned. If you've got a problem with a specific comment that is especially bad, please hit that exclamation point.

wow im late to party again lol. havent seen the ban hammer in a while though so i thought i would say something.

obligatory "im not paying $90 for that thing" comment

oh and "Fernando was banned once, returned wearing the four-five and is now worse than ever." funniest shit ive heard all week.

Ahh I missed it.

I personally don't think that $90 is too expensive. I remember buying Final Fantasy 3 for $79.99 when I was twelve. Devil May Cry 4 SE is $79.99. Halo 3 Cat Helmet Edition was how much when it came out? I'm just saying, it's no more a rip-off than any of that "Special Edition" crap that people buy all the time.

Disclaimer: The term "rip-off" isn't, wasn't and never wil be associated with Final Fantasy 3, a.k.a. Final Fantasy 6. Now give me a remake or I burn Square-Enix to the ground and rape the survivors! You have 13 hours to comply.

*Psuedo* agree. $90 is spendy, but there are far worse wastes of the gaming dollar. Comparred to the other two official Wii peripherals, this one actually provides additional features that aren't available through current controls.

I'm not getting WiiFit. Not because it's $90 (though it doesn't help) but because I'm not sold that the peripheral is going to be anything that 3rd parties use wisely.

Yeah, but come on, FF3 vs. Wii Fit? I mean it took me, what, 60 hours to beat that one game? I don't even think I've put 60 hours total into playing my Wii since I bought it!

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