At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco last Wednesday, Nintendo announced a new game for its leading console: Wii Fit. What? A console which already battles sedentary gaming is adding a product that will improve your health too?
Wii Fit comes bundled with a wireless Balance Board “controller” with which you can stretch, exercise and even try out ya ya ya ya-Yoga! WiiFit includes mini-games that test your hand eye coordination with Soccer-related challenges, Marbles and Down-Hill skiing. Additionally, it adds the Wii Fit channel to the already large list of channels on the Wii Conole. The channel allows users to check in and track fitness progress by weight and body mass index (also known as BMI).
Although originally rumored to come out in January this year, WiiFit will be available May 19th. In addition to WiiFit, Nintendo announced WiiWare–a digital distribution game service set to launch May 12th allowing gamers to download new games directly to the console–some of which are said to include episodic content. This is different than the Virtual Console which has existed since its incept.
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It was Wii Fit that was the tipping point for me to buy a Wii. I bought into the January rumors, and was disappointed when the date was bumped to May. The exercise I do is jogging. I was looking at Wii Fit to balance my exercise regime, and maybe make it more fun.
Concerning Wii Ware, how much space does the Wii have for saving downloaded games?
And concerning the new layout, I can’t see who the post author is. Is it just me?
It has as much space as you can purchase on a single SD memory card. ;-)
Natively: It only supports 512MB.
For games like Super Mario Bros. that’s fine but I would assume you would need to purchase some sort of external storage. I wonder if they won’t release an external Hard Drive peripheral…