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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $140.25
New (87) Used (9) from $140.25
Rating:  434 reviews
Sales Rank: 1
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: sports_and_outdoors_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: WI-RVLRRFNE
Model: RVLRRFNE
UPC: 045496901080
EAN: 0045496901080
ASIN: B000VJRU44
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Great, but could be a whole lot better with a few tweaks August 23, 2008
Kenneth J. Fairfax
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Don't get me wrong. The Wii Fit is great. I've been using it for two months and still like doing it. It's much better than a workout video for two reasons. First, rather than always repeating the same sequence, you pick what you want. Need to work on a certain area? Fine! Do the appropriate exercises more often. Second, it provides feedback. This is the key to the Wii Fit board. While the feedback is not always perfect and is not the same as having a personal trainer, it's a long shot better than just mimicking what you see on the tube and having no real idea if you've got it right. By giving you something to "shoot for", the scoring system also adds to motivation.
Now for the gripes.
1) There REALLY ought to be a "no chat" mode. While some of the pointers may be helpful at first, they get old fast. After 60 sessions, I had pretty much memorized them all. At present, there's the "demo" mode and the normal exercise mode. The next update needs a third "hold the chatter" mode.
2) There REALLY ought to be a way to string a series of exercises together into a workout without having to spend to much time navigating through menus. Every exercise needs requires a "pick this one" click, followed by a "start" click, followed by a "OK, give me my score" click, followed by a "show me my total time" click, followed by a "quit or do over" click. Several also require extra clicks to assure the system that you won't fall over and break your leg. The result is a click-to-exercise ratio that is out of control and ruins the flow of the workout. It would be wonderful it there was a way to queue up 5 or 10 exercises to do in a row with at most one click in between.
3) In the "balance games," there REALLY ought to be an easier way for two (or more) players to alternate. If you want to play with others, you essentially have to back all the way out of a multi-layer menu between every player change. Since downhill skiing, for example, takes one minute to complete, the end result is a "play-to-click" ratio of about 1 to 4: one minutes of play followed by four minutes of navigating menus in order to the next player to have their turn. It would be wonderful if players could somehow "register" that the following 2 or 3 or 4 players will be alternating in the balance games and then have them play one after the other without all that clicking to navigate through the menus.
 GREAT! August 23, 2008
Sydney
Amazing! It makes me want to work out and it doesn't seem like I'm working out. I LOVE IT!
Wife is Wii Fit August 19, 2008
Fred L. Young (Nashville, TN. USA)
My wife is addicted to the Wii. She has a scheduled routine and has added cardio to her Wii work out.
By tricking you into exercising to get points and fill graphs, Wii Fit keeps technophile nerds motivated and organized. August 19, 2008
Joe Majsterski (Houston, TX United States)
First things first: I'm a PC game player almost exclusively. I haven't owned a console and put it to serious use since, well, the Atari 2600. I bought the Wii for two reasons: to get my wife into gaming and for the Wii Fit. So far, the Wii Fit has been a very satisfying success.
There are four main sections to the game: yoga, strength training, aerobics, and balance games. Yoga and strength training are the most legitimate exercises, with fifteen different types of exercise each. These two groups have a personal trainer (male or female) explaining and demonstrating the moves for you before letting you do them yourself. The aerobics and balance sections are more game-like, although the aerobics activities definitely get your heart pumping and the sweat flowing. These two sections also make heavy use of the Mii characters, which is entertaining in and of itself. The balance games are the most entertaining and accessible, but probably the least likely to get you in shape.
You begin with only a handful of exercises and activities available, but as you start putting time into working out, you unlock more positions and moves. It's a great motivator, since you'll want to keep working out to see what else is available. The activities seem to increase in difficulty and intensity at a nice steady pace, as you unlock more challenging moves and the option to do more reps for previously opened ones.
The balance board peripheral is able to sense how well you're balanced for all the activities, and is remarkably sensitive. The designers did a great job thinking out how all the activities would work out in practice, and the game can tell a lot about how you're doing based on your center of gravity. In fact, on one occasion, I was doing something, lost my balance, and had to put my foot on the ground to regain it. The game immediately called me out: "You put your leg down, didn't you?" I had to chuckle at that. It's great to be able to get continuous feedback about how you're doing, instead of doing it alone and hoping you've got it right.
As many have said, you can cheat on most of the activities if you want to, but if you are, you're a pretty pathetic person, and wasting your time and money pointlessly.
The graphics in the yoga and strength training sections are pretty basic, but more than sufficient to understand the poses and exercises. The aerobics and balance section have pretty whimsical graphics, but they look nice as well.
The sound is decent, with verbal instruction for the yoga and strength portions, and silly and catchy tunes for the aerobics and balance sections.
It is true, the Wii Fit system isn't perfect, since you can't program a series of activities continuously, and must instead select them one by one, stopping in between each to move on to the next. Still, the delays are minimal, and you can do quite well if you're focused.
One of the best parts of the entire system is the ability to do daily body tests, which tell you how much you weigh, your BMI, and your Wii Fit age. The most useful part of this is the graph, which shows your progress towards goals of your choosing. I'm always making goals like this, and wanting to keep track, but being able to have it up on a TV screen, all neat and organized, motivates me like nothing else. The fact that you can also record out-of-game activities on your exercise chart is also great motivation to actually DO other physical fitness activities outside of the game. I have been on and off into yoga for almost a decade, and this provides great motivation to do it and add the time to my daily workout chart. This might not motivate everyone, but for a guy who's been keeping virtual score for decades, this is the just the thing.
Overall, the Wii Fit is as useful as you make it. If you're just looking to goof off, you can certainly do that, but if you're serious, this will definitely be a key component of your exercise regime. I will make one other note. As someone with a lot of experience with yoga, I found most the yoga and strength training exercises familiar, and understood what they were trying to achieve. For someone with little or no experience in those areas, it might be well advised to look some things up online to familiarize yourself with them before diving into this "game." Still, I can heartily recommend the Wii Fit for anyone that has a strong desire to get into shape.
Thin 25-year-old who doesn't like exercise.... LOVES THIS!!!!!!! August 18, 2008
M. M. Wilson (Charlotte, NC)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm 25, married, put a lot (too much sometimes!) of importance on my looks, love video games... but HATE to exercise. I love biking, tennis, basketball... but put me on a treadmill, an eliptical or stick me in a group yoga class and I'll not be a fun person to hang out with.
I have been dying to get a Wii Fit ever since I heard about it a month before it was released. Surely, for this avid gamer and competitive chick, this could be exercise I can get into! I just prayed my high hopes weren't unrealistic. After all, I saw a lot of reviews out there saying that this thing "is definitley exercise" and not to expect "to have fun." I started to get worried.
Our Wii Fit arrived in the mail three days ago. I popped it in the next day and hopped on the balance board... and didn't get off for an hour and a half! It was a BLAST!!!!!!!!!!! For someone who likes only "hidden" exercise (outside enjoying the sun, kicking someone's butt at a sport), this is what I've been looking for!!!
It's competitive. Sure, you're "competing" against your own high scores, but man did I want to kick my own butt, "playing" exercises over and over until I did them perfectly, or at the very least, successfully. I was sweating by the end. I wasn't sore the next day... or the day after that, because I played another hour and a half last night... but I can tell a change in my overall "balance".
The "games" all focus around improving your center of balance. I had no idea the health problems that can be caused by not centering your balance properly! I notice myself... after just two days... paying close attention to my posture, and not being so "stiff" after a day at the office.
Among my favorite activities:
Skiing- I've never been, but I felt almost like I could hop on some skiis tonight. Challenging, and puts you there on that mountain.
"Marbles"- Um, I can't remember the real name of this game, but you'll recognize it in the balance games when you see it. You move the board on the screen around, trying to drop the marbles into the holes. Too much to explain here... just know that it's really challenging and addictive. I played the beginner and advanced levels until I beat them both. But even when you beat it... the challenge is never over.
Yoga- I never tried yoga before. Truthfully, I always thought it looked stupid, and was a ridiculous excuse for exercising. Come on, standing there like a "tree", when I'm out there, whipping butt in tennis? But let me tell you, this is like having a personal yoga instructor, and you can TELL that it's tough, and rewarding.
Snowboarding- This was the most frusterating, but once I made it down the mountain and made every checkpoint after trying about 20 times (FOR REAL). I was quite thrilled with myself.
Step- This one is pretty hilarious. Think of a classic aerobic stepping class. There's also advanced step, which is ridiculously tough... and I can't wait to beat it!
Running- No balance board here. Just stick the remote in your pocked and run in place. I was DYING, not being a runner, and killing myself to get a 117% caloric burn rate in three minutes. You "chase" a Mii or a dog, and have to keep up with them. My husband, who used to run and is trying to get back into it, is pretty excited about this one.
There are tons of other games, but those are the highlights. If you need to get back into exercising, GET THIS!!!!!!! It's my new favorite "toy".
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