25 Year Old Lauren Bernat has become something of a celeb on YouTube after getting 1.8 million views of her playing the hula game on Wii Fit in just her pants and a T-Shirt. Her boyfriend posted the candid Wii Fit video without telling her and at first she was furious but now she sees the funny side. Check out the bloke’s face at the end – classic! Related: Wii Fit Review
Nintendo’s Wii Fit unsurprisingly went straight to number one in the All Formats chart last week selling over 1 million units but can it hold off the competition from the mighty Grand Theft Auto IV? We think that the extra effort and manufacture needed to produce the Wii’s Balance Board mean that overall availability of Wii Fit stock will be lower than GTA4 which does not come bundled with any hardware. Related: Wii Fit review, Wii Fit Prizefighter, Wii Fit review
With Wii Fit Nintendo are hoping to end gym memberships forever. With videogames being blamed for health problems and kids being overweight, this does the opposite by doing what Brain Training did for the mind on the body. It comes with a balance board, basically a set of flat white scales that also measure your centre of balance. You stand on it and do a number of exercises and games to get you in shape. There’s yoga, muscle workouts, balance games and aerobic exercises and every day the game tests your Wii Fit age based on your height, weight, BMI...
The Wii balance board that comes with Wii Fit will also be used in the boxing game Prizefighter. During the training modes you can jump ropes, do push-ups and…. that might be just about it.
Nintendo launch national tour to get Wii Fit – get ready to embarrass yourself in public by testing out the Nintendo Wii Fit computer game while it’s on tour around the country. Being billed as the most fun way to exercise in your living room, Wii Fit is simple and straightforward enough for anyone to use regardless of age or fitness level. If you’ve not managed to secure a copy ready for the Wii Fit release date, or maybe you’re just a bit sceptical about the whole thing, come along to one of the many special Wii Fit events below...
1 Apr, 2008
So you’ve been stuck indoors all winter and want to know when will Wii Fit be released so you can get some soccer, hula hoop and snowboarding action. Well, April 25th is the highly anticipated UK Wii Fit release day when you’ll be able to pick up a balance board and get leaning. With the Wii Fit release date US side being almost 4 weeks behind Europe does Nintendo think us Brits need to get a head start with exercise? With around 40 activities the game promises to calculate your body mass index and track your ‘Wii Fitness Age’ –...