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Wii Fit a great piece of kiit that s a surefire hiit: related news

Wii Fit Takes Mario Kart Wii's Crown

The hit combination of Wii Sports and the Wii Remote brought golf swings and tennis serves into people's homes. Now Nintendo turns the living room into a fitness center for the whole family with Wii Fit and the Wii Balance Board. Family members will have fun getting a workout, and talking about and comparing their results and progress on a new channel on the Wii Menu. Wii Fit includes more than 40 types of training activities designed to appeal to all.

Nintendo launches Feel Great Britain With Wii Fit (Wii Fit)

In order to help promote Wii Fit even further in Britain, Nintendo has launched a brand new website telling the country's residents to Feel Great Britain With Wii Fit.

Wii Fit - a great piece of kiit that's a surefire hiit!

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Nintendo Wii Fit finally comes to the U.S.

Starting today, the Wii Fit — the accessory to the Nintendo Wii that purports to turn your game console in a fitness center — is finally available to people in the U.S. Well, people in a very specific part of the U.S., anyway… namely residents of New York City, since the Wii Fit is currently only available at the Nintedo World store in Rockefeller Center (next door to DVICE's world headquarters, natch) right now. The other 99.9% of the country will have to wait till Wednesday to get a crack at it. In either case, the Wii Fit costs $90.

The Wii is still sold out

On Monday, we reported on the Wii Fit shortage. But believe it or not, the actual Wii console is still in short supply, a year and a half after its release. If you're like us, you figured that after the holiday season the overwhelming demand for the Nintendo Wii would finally let up and you'd finally be able to buy the console easily online and in stores. However, the Wii is still essentially sold out online; we couldn't find the console available to buy from major retailers like Amazon.com, Best Buy, and Circuit City. We did find a few places where you could buy a Wii, but they required you to buy an expensive bundle, like GameStop's $400 bundle or Wal-Mart's $500 bundle. According to Wii Tracker.com, you can't buy a Wii online for less than $390.

Wii Fit Aims To Get You Off the Couch

Nintendo launches the Wii Fit in the U.S. with a balance board that measures your BMI and gets you moving with a virtual hula hoop, a snowboard, exercises and yoga. Nintendo's Wii Fit includes virtual trainers that will suggest solutions for slackers.to improve. More than two million copies of Wii Fit have been sold in Japan.

Nintendo Wins Fans for the Wii Fit

Nintendo wins fans for the Wii Fit. Bloomberg Boot Camp, a report on today’s technology. They were lined up out the door at Nintendo’s World Store in New York’s Rockefeller Center when Nintendo’s new exercise system for the Wii game console went on sale. And the Wii Fit….may give fits to Microsoft and Sony…which have been trailing Nintendo in sales ever since the Wii game console was released. Nintendo Executive VP Cammie Dunaway….

Nintendo's New Wii Fit Makes Fitness Fun

VANCOUVER, May 20 /CNW/ - The path to fitness begins with a single step. Nintendo's new Wii Fit(TM) combines fun and fitness in ways that will have people getting up off their couches, moving around, having fun and maybe even breaking a sweat. Wii Fit gets everyone pumped up about making enjoyable physical activities a part of their daily routines. Wii Fit even tracks users' progress, which lets people see how they have improved while challenging them to better their scores and stay motivated to keep going.

Nintendo's New Wii Fit Makes Fitness Fun

VANCOUVER, BC, May 20, 2008 - The path to fitness begins with a single step. Nintendo's new Wii Fit™ combines fun and fitness in ways that will have people getting up off their couches, moving around, having fun and maybe even breaking a sweat. Wii Fit gets everyone pumped up about making enjoyable physical activities a part of their daily routines. Wii Fit even tracks users' progress, which lets people see how they have improved while challenging them to better their scores and stay motivated to keep going.

PHOTO ADVISORY: Nintendo's New Wii Fit Makes Fitness Fun

2008 JUN 2 - (NewsRx.com) -- Consumers and curious onlookers of all kinds flocked to Central Park for the debut of Wii Fit(TM), the innovative new fitness game for Nintendo's popular Wii system. The interactive launch event included live demonstrations of the wireless Wii Balance Board(TM), personal Wii Fit training sessions and fundraising activities for the American Heart Association (see also Nintendo of America Inc.).

Good Luck Finding a Copy of Wii Fit - Here Come The Scalpers

This should not come as a shock, but today is the official first day people in the US can buy the already-popular-in-Japan Wii Fit from Nintendo. Wii Fit turns your Nintendo Wii gaming console into a fitness trainer using a special pad to measure your weight and balance. The “game” comes with a set of exercises ranging from strength to aerobics, and has been applauded for making getting fit fun, interactive (up to 8 family members can use it and compete) and for making the gaming console more than a couch potato pastime.

Wii Fit - Wii

Alright, let's just get this out of the way: Wii Fit isn't going to give you the muscles of Schwarzenegger or give you the subtle grace of Baryshnikov. In short, if you go in spaghetti-armed and uncoordinated, you'll probably come out that way. Much like Brain Age and other games of its ilk, Wii Fit isn't a magic bullet that'll cure what ails you. But what it can do is get you up and off your couch, which, if you're anything like me, is a good thing all around. Oh, and it's a heck of lot of fun to boot.

Wii Wants to Make Gamers Sweat

The Nintendo Wii's original controller got millions of people to wave their hands about wildly. With Wii Fit, the video game console takes it a step further and gets your whole body off the couch. Nintendo released Wii Fit in the U.S. on Monday. Wii Fit and the accompanying Balance Board can give users a light workout with yoga, weight training and aerobics functionalities.

Wii Fit = Mii Fat

Wii Fit hula hoop gameI got Nintendo's Wii Fit exercise "game" today, which includes a new accessory for the Nintendo Wii system (the Balance Board) and a bunch of video game exercises that aim to help you get fitter through yoga, balance games, strength training and aerobics.

Nintendo Wii and Wii Fit Will Be Sold for Only 99 Cents to the First 9 Customers at the 5th Anniversary Celebration of 99 Cents Only Stores(R) in Texas on Lucky Friday the 13th of June at One of Its Dallas, Houston and San Antonio Stores.

COMMERCE, Calif. - On Lucky Friday the 13th, the first 9 customers at select Texas stores can purchase a Nintendo Wii and Wii Fit combo pack - a $350 value - for only 99¢. That’s right, a Nintendo Wii -

Wii Fit Hits U.S. Retailers Tomorrow

Nintendo's incredibly popular Wii gaming console got a fitness boost yesterday, when the Wii Fit game hit the shelves of Nintendo's New York retail store. The game, which features strength training, aerobic, balance, and yoga themes across its more than 40 different exercises, comes with a unique shoulder-wide exercise board that can track the user's BMI, weight, and fitness progress charts. Scheduled to hit stores nationwide on Wednesday, analysts predict that 30% of the 10 million current U.S. Wii owners will "get Fit", and Amazon and Wal-Mart claim to have already sold all of their available pre-order stock.

Wii Fit Going For Silly Prices, To Silly People, On Ebay [Wii Fit]

It's official: the US is in the grip of Wii Fit fever. And it's overriding some people's common sense.

Wii Fit With Balance Board

Part of the Nintendo Wiis appeal is that it makes gamers get up off their duffs and wave their arms around. Hey, if youre going to slack off with videogames, you might as well get an upper body workout, right? The new Wii Fit With Balance Board ($89.99; www.bestbuy.com) extends the cardiovascular fun to the rest of your body. Stand on the balance board and immerse yourself in skiing, snowboarding, and other games, not to mention yoga and aerobics. Youll feel the improvement in your muscle tone in your legs and back. Get fit, and have a Wii bit o fun along the way.

Critical Reception: Nintendo's Wii Fit

Critical Reception: Nintendo's Wii Fit This week's edition of the regular Critical Reception column examines online reaction to Nintendo's peripheral-bundled fitness title Wii Fit, which critics claim is "absolutely worth giving it a try if you have a Wii, $90, and some extra pounds to lose."

Nintendo`s Wii Fit

Nintendo has decided to capitalize on Americas obesity epidemic with the launch of Wii Fit. Nintendo began its campaign towards healthier gaming when it introduced Wii Sports, which encouraged gamers to get off their behinds and move more than just their fingers while playing video games like tennis or golf. With Wii Fit, they have decided to turn up the heat about 100 degrees.

Fittest UK cities buy most copies of Wii Fit (Wii Fit)

Cities revealed to be the fittest cities in the UK by Men's Health magazine have bought more copies of Nintendo's Wii Fit than anywhere else, according to an online auction site.

Nintendo Wii and Wii Fit Will Be Sold for Only 99 Cents to the First 9 Customers at the 5th Anniversary Celebration of 99 Cents Only Stores(R) in Texas on Lucky Friday the 13th of June at One of Its Dallas, Houston and San Antonio Stores.

Nintendo Wii and Wii Fit Will Be Sold for Only 99 Cents to the First 9 Customers at the 5th Anniversary Celebration of 99 Cents Only Stores(R) in Texas on Lucky Friday the 13th of June at One of Its Dallas, Houston and San Antonio Stores.

Obesity Controversy? Wii Fit In Hot Water Already

Wii Fit is in hot water already. Obesity experts in the UK have condemned Wii Fit for calling players "fat," and believe the game should carry a warning for parents, reports the Daily Mail.

Wii Fit (Wii)

Wii Fit will help you work up a sweat, but it's not as smooth and fun a workout as you'd probably like.


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