Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus move one million units in Australia

by David Hinkle on Jul 7th 2010 12:30AM

Here at Joystiq, there's only one thing we value above video games: your health. And we were beginning to get worried about you specifically, Australia -- that is, until we heard you guys were trying to trim those love handles.

Nintendo of Australia has announced it's managed to sell one million copies of Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus (including the balance board). And while Oz isn't necessarily one of the fattest countries out there, according to a World Health Organization study back in 2007 (via Forbes), its people aren't exactly the benchmark for healthy living, either.

But hey, you gotta start somewhere and we're just glad you guys have taken that first step towards healthy living. If you're looking to build upon Nintendo's workout program, let us know. We'll let you borrow our Sweatin' to the Oldies tapes.

Via: GameSpot
Source: Nintendo

Tags: nintendo, sales, wii-fit, Wii-Fit-Plus

Reader Comments (13)

Wow. 1 in 21 people in Australia owns Wii Fit or the Plus model. That has to be the highest ratio in the world. Someone wanna check that?

Wow, Aussies have Soccer Moms too!

@GordoJones88

More like football moms. Get it right

@GordoJones88

Do they have 'Aussie football rules' moms though?

That could be interesting..

@Stevetrop Man of Mystery

No they call it soccer.

Yep, us Australians sure are lazy bastards.
We want to lose weight, but we want someone to do it for us.
I know too many people who thought buying a Wii Fit board would somehow turn them skinny.
Every single January millions of us get scammed by weight loss shakes, bars and pills. We never learn. :/

@Esposch
The only weight loss scams there are - are diet-only programs.
Weight-loss shakes, diets, pills, exercises, and products all enhance the effects of a decent exercise regime. (If it works without exercise, it's extremely unhealthy)

Only scam-ish thing about them are when people don't read the "fineprint" (which aren't that small), and when people start spreading false rumors about the products.

I blame Saxton Hale!

@WINterfang

As bad as that issue may be, it's still not as bad as I (and many others I'm sure) once believed it to be.

The list of banned games isn't extremely long, most of them get edited or reevaluated for an M15+ rating.

The few that do get banned can still easily be gotten online through stores like Steam without any problems.

@sonicspike41
Um, no. They can't.
We have to do all kinds of tricks to get L4D2 uncensored on Steam, whereas on the 360 uncensored versions are floating around everywhere.