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Posted: May 31st 2009 10:00PM (Unverified) said

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I hope this junk is not a big part of Nintendo's conference.I want some old and new IP's with Zelda leading the way at E3 not this pile of garbage.

Posted: May 31st 2009 10:08PM Mr Khan said

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That report also hinted at a Wii Mario game. Had to be Wii, since they referred to it in the context of "fixing the decelerating Wii sales in Japan"

Posted: May 31st 2009 11:11PM hami83 said

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I hope they don't make you spend half your play time in the menu system like they did in the first one.

menu, Game/Exercise, menu, game, menu, game menu. etc etc etc. It was retarded.

Posted: Jun 1st 2009 12:11AM Axcalibur said

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I hope they throw in a measuring tape. A persons weight has little relevance to fitness. The added knowledge of height and age does help accuracy, but to make it really acurate they should ask for waist and chest size, arm size, leg size, etc. It still wouldn't be perfect (you'd need actual calipers for that!), but it's far better than the system it has now.

Posted: Jun 1st 2009 3:22AM (Unverified) said

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This is really misguided. For people who are in good shape, yes, BMI isn't a terribly accurate judge, especially those who do a lot of strength training. However, anyone buying Wii Fit will either: A- Have that apply to them, or B- Know why it doesn't apply to them. It's really a non-issue; the point of Wii Fit is to be an easy way for the reasonably-fit to total-fatass crowd to be able to easily track their progress. When you start taking measurements, you add in complexity that really isn't needed for the audience it targets. It's supposed to be a way to get on your feet, not an at-home clinic. Leave body fat tests to doctors and gyms, where they can be done accurately. A simple scale is a big help to most people.



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Posted: Jun 1st 2009 7:28PM Axcalibur said

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And this is why we live in fat-america (well, fat-canada for me). It's this backward thinking that a scale presents an accurate portrait of an individuals fitness.

I do agree that the first goal of Wii Fit is to get people up and doing stuff. The problem is how the program treats an individual by saying they're "obese" when in fact they could be simply very muscular.

There are so many elements to weight, and people need to realize this. Weight fluctuates through-out the day, and changes based on what we eat or drink and how much we've slept. Wii-Fit doesn't do a good enough job to explain these concepts.

The bottom line, (and I conclude this now only because I could quite literally continue this topic for pages-but that's not needed here), we need a more accurate system at measuring a persons fitness that goes beyond weight.

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