Get fit with Wii Fit: Miyamoto on the health gaming phenomenon |
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For the past five months, people in Japan have been bitten by the fitness bug induced by Nintendo's Wii Fit. The best-selling health conscious title recently debuted in London and was predicted to have the same monumental sales as its Asian counterpart.Shigeru Miyamoto talked about the Wii Fit phenomenon in an exclusive article from The Sunday Times and explained the track Nintendo took in introducing this most unconventional "game" to Wii owners everywhere. His message was simple: "I want to show that computer games can be good for you, can enrich your life.”
While Sony and Microsoft were slugging it out in a battle for the best processor and visuals, Nintendo concentrated on the more practical side of gaming. Miyamoto claimed that enjoyable interactive games like Wii Fit were made to lure "people who never imagined they would buy a computer game".
Analysts in the UK were already predicting that Wii Fit will be this year's best-selling game. With Britain considered the strongest market for Wii outside Japan, the numbers to this newly released title should eventually tell if it will have the same success as it did in Japan.
Miyamoto already laid out plans on the next step of the Wii work-out program. He explained that health nuts will soon be able to go online and compete against other Wii Fit gamers, comparing themselves against millions of others in their shared exercise activities.
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"While Sony and Microsoft were slugging it out in a battle for the best processor and visuals, Nintendo concentrated on the more practical side of gaming."
Exactly! This is the most specific reason why the Wii has blown away all other consoles!!!
Congrats Nintendo!
"Miyamoto claimed that enjoyable interactive games like Wii Fit were made to lure "people who never imagined they would buy a computer game"
Which explains the sales they're seeing.
"Analysts in the UK were already predicting that Wii Fit will be this year's best-selling game."
Hum..... this years best selling? As usual, leave it to an analyst to fudge everything up....
This article was written by a moron.
"Miyamoto is the man who practically invented the computer game. He came up with Super Mario, the fat, dungaree-wearing Italian-American plumber who squelched opponents and grabbed mushrooms and stars. He followed up with Donkey Kong and Legend of Zelda, voted the best video game."
No, Miamoto didn't invent s*it. He just gets credit for everything. Ralph Baer invented the first home videogame. Nolan Bunshell made the first arcade games. Miamoto turns bath scales into "fitness motivators" and "created" the most annoying personality free characters overused in games.
"However, the 55-year-old had a very grown-up message: “I want to show that computer games can be,” he paused for effect, “good for you, can enrich your life.”
How does Wii fit enrich your life? Really? By telling you you're fat, exercise more? It's well known you can't exercise on Wii fit itself. For $90 I could call fat people up every day and tell them they're fat, but that would just make them mad.
"After years of violent fantasy games which, critics say, have turned a generation into emotionally stunted couch potatoes, Miyamoto wants goggle-eyed fatties to get up off the sofa and onto his latest invention, the Wii Fit board, to run, stretch and ski. “People say video games are a waste of time and are bad for your brain and for your health,” he said. “We wanted to create something to answer that.”
Now they're lying and saying traditional games are bad for your health (and even your brain?) Is that the new Nintendo marketing campaign? Maybe he's just saying all non-Nintendo games are bad for you. What a load of BS!
"There are only so many teenage geeks in the market “and if we go on only appealing to them, we’re going to have a very hard time”."
Now he uses stereotypes to insult the very fan base that made Nintendo what it is today. Will he just die already?
"We want to broaden the definition of what a video game is, to create games for people whether they are five or 95, whether they are men or women."
Aparently, Nintendo doesn't care about anyone in between those ages anymore.
"Almost half of Japanese consumers who have bought Wii and Wii Fit had never bought a video game before."
That explains the sales! People who know nothing about videogames buy into advertising propoganda. There's a reason why Wii fit has the biggest advertising budget to date. Do people realize how worthless it is?
“Spending too long, staying in and playing any video game is not good,” said Miyamoto. “I always tell my children to get out on a sunny day and I, myself, went jogging in Central Park yesterday. But I do my stretching on Wii Fit. They work together.”
"Perhaps. But isn’t letting your TV tell you what to do all a bit Big Brotherish? Won’t consumers get so cross with the machine that they will end up hurling it out of the window?"
“We thought they might, but the evidence from Japan is that they get cross with themselves — not the machine. They don’t blame the game.”
Most likely they blame themselves for buying a $90 game that does nothing but tell them how to stretch and call them fat.
Wii fit is made to moniter your health....not call you fat...what a dips*** thing to say!! It quides people to lose weight.......you really know NOTHING but then again all you are is some dude with too much time that loves pissing people off by bashing games youve never played...so i doubt anyone cares....but you know that
"No, Miamoto didn't invent s*it. He just gets credit for everything."
I know you fail at the lowest levels of English so I'll clue you into what you missed. See the word PRACTICALLY? Now I'll point you to dictionary.com....GO LEARN SOMETHING!!!
"How does Wii fit enrich your life? Really? By telling you you're fat, exercise more?"
By teaching you in an interactive manor which books can not. Seriously, you couldn't figure that out yourself? How stupid does a person have to be to not get that???
"For $90 I could call fat people up every day and tell them they're fat, but that would just make them mad."
Gees, what a douche bag!!!
"Now they're lying and saying traditional games are bad for your health (and even your brain?) Is that the new Nintendo marketing campaign? Maybe he's just saying all non-Nintendo games are bad for you. What a load of BS!"
More English failure. Seriously, how old are you? If you're over the age of 10 then that's pretty damn sad!!! Time to clue you in again, check out this part, HELL, you even quoted it yourself!
"%u201CPeople say video games are a waste of time and are bad for your brain"
See where it says PEOPLE SAY? What this is addressing is the IMAGE video games have today. Miamoto wants to change that image. It's not necessarily HIS image.
"There are only so many teenage geeks in the market %u201Cand if we go on only appealing to them, we%u2019re going to have a very hard time%u201D."
"Now he uses stereotypes to insult the very fan base that made Nintendo what it is today. Will he just die already?"
Wow, more English failure!!! Check it out high speed. First, read it AGAIN. Second look at where the QUOTES are. Miamoto didn't call anyone a geek. "Times" added that in front of what he said. You need your eyes checked!!!!
"That explains the sales! People who know nothing about videogames buy into advertising propoganda. There's a reason why Wii fit has the biggest advertising budget to date. Do people realize how worthless it is?"
Wrong again. People buy into what they want. If your idiotic theories were true then the second launch would have failed from bad reviews. But guess what? It didn't, which makes you 100% wrong.
"Most likely they blame themselves for buying a $90 game that does nothing but tell them how to stretch and call them fat."
Mostly likely NOT since there are no reports of such. Do you enjoy pulling such BS out your rear end? Also, it does much more then that. But, you already know that. It just doesn't fit into your propaganda.
"No, Miamoto didn't invent s*it. He just gets credit for everything."
I know you fail at the lowest levels of English so I'll clue you into what you missed. See the word PRACTICALLY? Now I'll point you to dictionary.com....GO LEARN SOMETHING!!!
Not even with the qualifier "practically" is the writer's statment remotely true. Both home consoles and arcade systems were well established even before Donkey Kong.
"Now they're lying and saying traditional games are bad for your health (and even your brain?) Is that the new Nintendo marketing campaign? Maybe he's just saying all non-Nintendo games are bad for you. What a load of BS!"
More English failure. Seriously, how old are you? If you're over the age of 10 then that's pretty damn sad!!! Time to clue you in again, check out this part, HELL, you even quoted it yourself!"
Fox news always says "Some people say....etc." They're trying to force the idea that even though it doesn't sound like their opinion, it is still what the majority thinks. Miamoto is doing the same thing here, which isn't true.
"Miyamoto, senior managing director of the Japanese gaming giant Nintendo, believes that the race to create increasingly powerful video-game processors, offering ever more extreme shoot %u2019em up games, will not generate long-term growth."
Correction, will not generate growth for Nintendo since they lost last gen with the Gamecube. They can't keep up, so created a new market aimed toward everyone else, relying on heavy advertising and other companies' inventions to succeed.
"There are only so many teenage geeks in the market and if we go on only appealing to them, we%u2019re going to have a very hard time".
"Now he uses stereotypes to insult the very fan base that made Nintendo what it is today. Will he just die already?"
Wow, more English failure!!! Check it out high speed. First, read it AGAIN. Second look at where the QUOTES are. Miamoto didn't call anyone a geek. "Times" added that in front of what he said. You need your eyes checked!!!!"
Then what did miamoto say before that? Looks like a typo as far as quotes.
Another correction: If Nintendo only appeals to them, they're going to have a very hard time because they lost last time and don't care about this group (core gamers) anymore.
"That explains the sales! People who know nothing about videogames buy into advertising propoganda. There's a reason why Wii fit has the biggest advertising budget to date. Do people realize how worthless it is?"
Wrong again. People buy into what they want. If your idiotic theories were true then the second launch would have failed from bad reviews. But guess what? It didn't, which makes you 100% wrong.
Here's a review even you could trust.
http://wii.ign.com/articles/869/869467p1.html
From the review:
"It's tempting to take one look at Wii Fit's minimalist, casual-appeasing presentation, glance at the Balance Board and dismiss the whole thing as one big money-grabbing gimmick."
Then the review never really proves that statment wrong, and only gives it a 8.0 out of 10.
Yes people buy what they're led to believe they want. However, many people are falsely led to believe using wii fit means easy weight loss, among other things. They believe false advertising promises.
"Most likely they blame themselves for buying a $90 game that does nothing but tell them how to stretch and call them fat."
Mostly likely NOT since there are no reports of such. Do you enjoy pulling such BS out your rear end? Also, it does much more then that. But, you already know that. It just doesn't fit into your propaganda."
Would there be some kind of official report of it when it happens? No. I read the review, it really doesn't do much.
"Not even with the qualifier "practically" is the writer's statment remotely true."
Yes it is. He is responsible for bringing the home arcade machine to a whole new level. A level that surpassed all others.
"Both home consoles and arcade systems were well established even before Donkey Kong."
Wrong. Not WELL established. I thought I told you to go learn something!!!
"Fox news always says "Some people say....etc." They're trying to force the idea that even though it doesn't sound like their opinion, it is still what the majority thinks. Miamoto is doing the same thing here, which isn't true."
Wow, even after a 3rd grade explanation you STILL did not get it. THOSE WERE NOT HIS WORDS. You said they where and you are WRONG.
"Correction, will not generate growth for Nintendo since they lost last gen with the Gamecube. They can't keep up, so created a new market aimed toward everyone else, relying on heavy advertising and other companies' inventions to succeed."
Wow, that was a big bunch of BS. They didn't create a new anything. Nintendo products have always been aimed at casual gamers. Also, the sales figures prove there are more casual gamers then anyone else. So it's clear the MAIN MARKET is casual gamers. You lose.
"Then what did miamoto say before that? Looks like a typo as far as quotes."
No it's not. Scum suckers do that all the time. Go cry like a baby at Time. Not here.
"Another correction: If Nintendo only appeals to them, they're going to have a very hard time because they lost last time and don't care about this group (core gamers) anymore."
What's your point? Obviously there are more casual gamers then anyone else. So who cares? Don't like what the Wii offers? Buy something else. Just because a person should buy something else doesn't make the Wii a POS as you claim so often.
"Here's a review even you could trust.
http://wii.ign.com/articles/869/869467p1.html"
HAHAHAHA!!!! Good way of shooting yourself in the foot!! What about that review? It was a POSITIVE REVIEW.
From the review:
"It's tempting to take one look at Wii Fit's minimalist, casual-appeasing presentation, glance at the Balance Board and dismiss the whole thing as one big money-grabbing gimmick."
So typical of you.... You take ONE LITTLE TINY PIECE OF SOMETHING then you RUN LIKE THE WIND WITH IT. You are such a pathetic failure it's HILARIOUS!!!!
Also in the review:
"Of course, this has its advantages and disadvantages. On the positive side, you'll be up and running with Wii Fit almost immediately, likely sweating with consumer satisfaction. "
So in other words IT WORKS. See the word SWEATING? See the word SATISFACTION? HAHAHA!!!!
"The downside is the slightly free-wheeling approach the title takes. Sure, you'll have learned your BMI, Wii Fit Age and set some personal goals in no time %u2013 but that doesn't necessarily imply you'll know what any of that means."
They treat this as a negative. But it's not. Not really. Yes, the Wii Fit should be more informative. Maybe they missed an insert or something. But it does prompt users to LEARN what these are if they already don't. So on the flipside that's a POSITIVE.
"Really, the attention to detail in Wii Fit is staggering. Alongside training exercises, the software features all manner of features %u2013 from small touches to major additions %u2013 that turn what could have been a bare-bones hair-brained product into an exceptionally well-rounded package."
HAHAHAHA!!!!!!! !!!!! That's 100% POSITIVE. This is a GOOD REVIEW you IDIOT!!!!
"the extensive Activity Log, giving you a full overview of your daily fitness regime, scoreboards to encourage some friendly competition between registered users and even the standalone Wii Fit Channel, enabling you to check charts and compare results, even going as far as offering the full Body Test without the need for the game disc."
EXTENSIVE equals POSITIVE!
"As for the training activities themselves, both balance and aero
"As for the training activities themselves, both balance and aerobic workouts do a great job of masking the science behind them and these are probably Wii Fit's greatest strength."
That's a GOOD THING. Yet another POSITIVE!!!
"the beautifully simple action and stylised presentation really does offer a compelling, stimulating reason to come back for more."
HAHAHAHA!!!!!!! ! More POSITIVE REVIEW material!!!
"Surprisingly, they're even engagingly competitive enough to warrant a Wii Sports-style party-fest, despite the lack of genuine multiplayer options."
Wow, this GOOD REVIEW just keeps getting BETTER AND BETTER!!!
"Not as easy as it looks, particularly without proper instruction."
EXACTLY!!!! Remember how you told me to read a book instead of buying the Wii Fit? This review PROVES how STUPID you are. A book can not give PROPER instruction. The Wii Fit DOES. Thanks to this GOOD REVIEW we now know that!!! HAHAHA!!!!! While the reviewer feels the Wii Fit still isn't AS GOOD as an actual instructor, it's still better then a book and is still MUCH CHEAPER then a live instructor. HAHAHAHA!!!!!!! !!!
"then Wii Fit is undeniably great value. It%u2019s beautifully presented, joyfully accessible and effortlessly entertaining."
HAHAHA!!!!!! YOU FAIL!!!!!
"Then the review never really proves that statment wrong, and only gives it a 8.0 out of 10."
1. YES, he DOES prove that wrong. Had you bothered to read it...nevermind...you don't understand basic English. You wouldn't understand it even if you DID read it.
2. 8.0 equals IMPRESSIVE. You FAILED to mention that part. There is nothing wrong with a 8 out of 10.
"Yes people buy what they're led to believe they want."
A VERY VERY VERY SMALL percentage of people who have money to blow out there rear end do, yes. So you base your opinions on meaningless percentages. Thanks for clearing that up.
"However, many people are falsely led to believe using wii fit means easy weight loss, among other things."
Grossly misinformed people might believe that weight loss is easy. However that TEENY TINY percentage of the population is moot.
"Would there be some kind of official report of it when it happens? No."
Yes you idiot!!! When you see MANY negative reviews.
"I read the review, it really doesn't do much. "
HAHAHAHA!!!!!!! !!! That's because you're a f'ing idiot that doesn't understand 5th grade reading material. As I laid it out for you above that was a VERY POSITIVE review of the Wii Fit. Even the reviewer wraps it up and says the review was outside his norm as it wasn't an actual game.
OH MAN YOU FAIL SO HARD IT'S PATHETIC!!!!