Rumor: EA still working on fitness title for Wii, includes new peripheral

by Griffin McElroy { Nov 2nd 2008 at 12:00PM }

We picked up Nintendo's wildly popular digital personal trainer, Wii Fit, shortly after launch with hopes to transform ourselves into Hasslehoffian dreamboats -- sadly, we found the Balance Board's unflinching critique of our porcine physiques far too traumatizing. Fortunately, according to an article in the latest issue of Men's Fitness, Electronic Arts is hard at work on their own fitness title for the Wii -- one that will use a brand new (and hopefully less judgmental) peripheral.

This isn't the first we've heard of EA's answer to Wii Fit -- though details on the new peripheral (and the apparent eschewing of the game's use of the Balance Board) is news to us. According to the magazine's interview with EA executive producer Dave McCarthy, the aforementioned peripheral will allow players to attach the Wiimote to their body, where it will measure their movements during a series of in-game exercises. No details on a release schedule for the game, or its capacity to make us openly weep, were mentioned.

Tags: ea, electronic-arts, fitness, mens-fitness, wii-fit

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

ChemicalPainter @ Nov 2nd 2008 12:12PM

WOOOT! A stepping board from EA! You can only step on it 5 times though a day cause it has SecuROM installed in the board

Albanian_Killa @ Nov 2nd 2008 1:37PM

I lol'ed!

Still lol'ing!

XGM @ Nov 2nd 2008 3:41PM

You can always call so they will allow you to use it once more... Screw that ill just download it and not have to worry about any of that bs anyways.

Mr Khan @ Nov 2nd 2008 12:14PM

Supposedly a more Western "feel the burn" answer to Nintendo's focus-based game.

Haggard @ Nov 2nd 2008 12:14PM

How about a USB treadmill and virtual men patting each others crotches and groaning as loudly as possible, for that authentic gym experience?

Jakka @ Nov 2nd 2008 12:19PM

You're going to the wrong kinds of "gyms"...

Markez @ Nov 2nd 2008 12:20PM

"patting each other's crotches"

ugh god, lol

Mr Khan @ Nov 2nd 2008 12:43PM

Cho Aniki?

Superstar90 @ Nov 2nd 2008 1:23PM

Crotchpat 09?

Haggard @ Nov 2nd 2008 1:24PM

I want to know which kind of gyms Jakka goes to because I've never seen one without the 'features' I stated above..

HB96st @ Nov 2nd 2008 12:30PM

And this is where the industry is heading... We're doomed.

"Hardcore gamers don't die... they just fade away..."

Jakka @ Nov 2nd 2008 12:34PM

Their auras float in the air, attempting to posses the hip casual crowd and light the Hardcore Candle back on fire...

Mr Khan @ Nov 2nd 2008 12:44PM

And so the Chicken Little mentality survives.

tmacairjordan87 @ Nov 2nd 2008 12:55PM

*Looks up from playing Fallout 3*

What's this about hardcore games dying?

Jakka @ Nov 2nd 2008 1:00PM

...and then CliffyB gathered two of every hardcore characters in the history of gaming, hurdled them into the boat and took them to and underwater city where they could be safe from parasit...casual gamers.

'I am Peter Molyneux, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to teh hardcorez of his games?
'No!' says the man in Ninetendo, 'We don't give a shit about you.'
'No!' says the man in the EA, 'You can only get your hardcorez five times.After that you're screwed!' 'No!' says the man who owns a 360, 'My freakin' console red-ringed again!'
'No!' says the man who owns a PS3, 'My console has no games!'

I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose...Mushroom Kingdom, a place where the Germans would not fear the censor, where the Rockstar would not be bound by petty morality, where the Gamers would not be constrained by the Casual scum! And with the amount of your achievement points, Mushroom can become your home, as well.

thethirdmoose @ Nov 2nd 2008 1:07PM

I use a Pee Cee.

Moptimus Slime @ Nov 2nd 2008 2:24PM

*pauses Far Cry 2*

an idiot says what?

The Fatass of Kickassness @ Nov 2nd 2008 3:54PM

How is it that only about a dozen truly 'casual' games for the Wii have seen any success (and only two or three, one being a pack in with the Wii's controller, have seen success on the level of hyped core games), yet people still cry foul every time they see a casual game? Makes me want to punch some nuts. Broken logic ftl.

Superstar90 @ Nov 2nd 2008 4:49PM

Fatass, you mean pat some crotches?

zuburi @ Nov 2nd 2008 6:09PM

Looks *AT* Fallout 3

A hardcore franchise being simplified and shortened for mass-market appeal?

Kspraydad @ Nov 2nd 2008 1:00PM

Why wouldn't the add their own sensor to the box (except Wii which they could market cheaper) and make it multiplatform?

nick @ Nov 2nd 2008 1:35PM

If EA is involved, somehow I doubt such a peripheral and game would be for the Wii only. And it's really only a matter of time before someone creates a 'board' for all major systems, assuming there's potential for other games.

Dani Reader @ Nov 2nd 2008 1:40PM

And I thought one fitness computer game was bad enough. You know, we can get a fitness program off google for free, and run our fat asses out of the front door and down the road for free. I may not be fit, but at least I make that choice, and If I need to get fit, I certainly won't be pulling money out of my pocket to pay EA OR nintendo for the privilege. I don't understand everyone's requirement to turn real life activities into computer games. Can people not be bothered actually skateboarding without EA's help anymore? Jesus