Nintendo concerned about your body, launching Wii Fit Body Check Channel

by JC Fletcher on Jan 27th 2009 11:00AM

Previously, they were content to let you use their games to monitor how much you weighed and how often you walked, but now Nintendo of Japan is showing an increased interest in what's going on with your body. In April, they will launch the "Wii Fit Body Check Channel", a Wii channel co-developed with NEC, Hitachi, and Panasonic Medical Solutions.

The Channel will allow users to send BMI data from Wii Fit as well as the step data recorded from the Personal Trainer: Walking pedometer, and receive personalized guidance from health professionals about how to stay healthy. Our predictions: if you are only sending in data from one game, you will be told, "Maybe you should buy the other game too".

It's possible that this Japanese channel relates to the "Nintendo Active Health" trademark registered in Europe earlier this month. If it does refer to the same initiative, then Nintendo may be planning to offer health advice worldwide! Good news for people who want a game company all up in their business.

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[Via Engadget]

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Tags: exercise, health, nongame, wii-fit, wii-fit-body-check-channel

Reader Comments (4)

Now that's some synergy, right there

I still dont have a reason to get a balance board...

legend has it that Punch-Out!! could provide,
unless you're not interested in that

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My employer just started a Health at Work initiative (we're doing an exchange with the health advisors...free health advisoring if we do a documentary on the 2 year program as we go through it). One option they suggested to us was using a Wii and Wii Fit, so something like the Body Check Channel would actually be useful for me now. I'm blessed/cursed in that I work from home for my job (I live 2 hours away from the office), so this might be a good way to motivate me to actually exercise. It's also a good excuse for me to finally buy a Wii (I'm an Xbox junkie).