Third-party Wii Balance Board listed on Amazon UK
by Kyle Orland 
{ Aug 1st 2008 at 2:25PM }
Are you one of the dozens and dozens of British citizens that wants a Wii Balance Board to play games like Skate It! or Rayman: Raving Rabbids TV Party, but also doesn't want to pay extra for the included Wii Fit game? Well you're in luck! According to a recent Amazon listing, the Njoy G-Board Balance Board will only set you back £64.99 -- a full five pounds less than the £69.99 Wii Fit package. And who needs Wii Fit's virtual personal trainer when you can look down at the G-Board's stylish LCD weight display to see just how unfit you really are?
Seriously, the one advantage Njoy's Board might have over the Wii Fit bundle is availability -- as of this writing, the game's short supply has inflated the package price to £102.99 and up on Amazon's marketplace. Penny-pinching balancers can look for their G-Board's on Sept. 12.
[Via Engadget]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mr mobius @ Aug 1st 2008 2:30PM
LCD display? So it's a glofified set of bathroom scales? Great! Let it rip Sony and Microsoft fanboys...
baby sea tuna @ Aug 1st 2008 2:51PM
No need. You already took care of it.
Ass.
mr mobius @ Aug 1st 2008 2:52PM
I was just predicting the response. I'm not anti-Nintendo since every console I've owned has been Nintendo and I've defended them before in here.
Kyattsuai @ Aug 1st 2008 3:03PM
Didn't Iwata already "let it rip" at E3?
dabamf @ Aug 1st 2008 2:33PM
Five pounds less for a third party peripheral? That's insane! That savings is basically nullified by the shipping charge I would think.
Tim Burns @ Aug 1st 2008 2:38PM
Good, maybe another company earning profits will wake Nintendo up and make them actually supply the market with product.
mr mobius @ Aug 1st 2008 2:53PM
Or sue for plagiarism.
Shagittarius @ Aug 1st 2008 3:18PM
I dont think nintendo can patent two scales duct-tapped together.
ExMcCloud @ Aug 1st 2008 6:53PM
Is it plagiarism or copy-right infringement?
Boom! @ Aug 1st 2008 2:47PM
It begins.
Heh {XBL: P4nic 4tt4ck} @ Aug 1st 2008 2:51PM
Nintendo's already in the black. The last thing they need is another company sucking funds away from them!
Saria the Cat @ Aug 1st 2008 4:57PM
Wow, this would suck to play a non-fitness game on if you had to be greeted by your weight every time. Unless you don't have an image problem. Which would mean you're not a girl.
Heh {XBL: P4nic 4tt4ck} @ Aug 1st 2008 5:20PM
So true. A really good friend of mine got an eating disorder as recently as last summer. She was only like 100lbs, too, so it was very unhealthy for her. Luckily I helped her get past it but, wow, it's amazing (and no offence here) how much pressure you women think you have from the rest of the world.
She still calls me fat, though, lol, even though she knows very well I'm only 130lbs. >>;
Saria the Cat @ Aug 1st 2008 5:28PM
@Heh: Yeah, it's a pretty big problem. Girls feel constant pressure to look a certain way and sometimes that pressure is so great that it warps the way they see themselves. I think the pressure is real, though, otherwise it wouldn't be there. I don't think girls are naturally just low self esteem-ified. I'm usually pretty good about it but I can get as insecure as the next girl.
Heh {XBL: P4nic 4tt4ck} @ Aug 1st 2008 5:33PM
Yeah, the pressure is obviously there. Things should be done about it, but it looks like something that could possibly get a lot worst within the next few years.
And low self-esteem-ified, lol, nice choice of words there.
dwhite @ Aug 2nd 2008 5:10PM
Maybe this one is reinforced for slightly heavier people, or as I call them "fat chicks." That LCD screen can't be good for the self esteem though.