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- tadj, on 06/16/2009, -4/+24$2 billion? Wow - that is more than any film has ever grossed at the box office. Props to Nintendo
- cam0man, on 06/17/2009, -8/+28in other news, 19m wii fits remain unused after the initial first month of ownership following trends of virtually every other home fitness product ever sold.
- fragMasterFlash, on 06/17/2009, -1/+17I lost about 20 lbs while using Wii fit which helped me get into good enough shape to start jogging again and lose another 20 lbs. It is a good way to get started without going to the gym and getting laughed at for sucking wind.
- inactive, on 06/17/2009, -4/+20More than $20,000,000 sold, almost $2,000,000,000 in revenue, and almost 20 pounds lost globally!
- phpirate, on 06/17/2009, -0/+15If there's one thing 360/PS3 fanboys hate, it's to hear about the success of the wii. Especially when it's games like Wii fit.
- Inflammo, on 06/17/2009, -2/+16What film costs $89.99 per ticket?
- RevJonathan, on 06/17/2009, -0/+13I'm down 40 pounds total! It's a great tool for tracking your progress. The exercises are completely useless, but weighing in every morning keeps me going. You don't eat that extra slice of pizza if you know you will take a hit on Wii Fit the next day. It charts it all out very well for long term analysis too. Totally worth the price.
- Endrian, on 06/17/2009, -1/+14Considering it's helped enforce a more healthy lifestyle for me, personally, and been responsible for some serious muscle gain and body toning, I wouldn't call it "useless."
Sure, some couch potato might buy it, play it with for a few days, then get lazy, but that doesn't mean it's useless—they're just not /using/ it. - neillawson, on 06/17/2009, -1/+13As long as boobs bounce...
- ericcc, on 06/17/2009, -0/+10If they could get away with charging that, every movie would cost $89.99.
- zip000, on 06/17/2009, -0/+10EH. I like the Wii Fit, though I admit that I haven't used it in quite a while.
The problem with it - and the problem will hopefully be fixed with the new Wii Fit (I don't remember what they're calling it) - is that you just can't get a workout flow going. You spend nearly as much time on menus and in between stuff as you do exercising.
With the new version, you can set up a routine, and do a bunch of exercises in a row without having to go to a menu. I really wish they'd release that as free downloadable content though. - WraTH017, on 06/17/2009, -0/+8I bought a treadmill a few years ago... It was boring as hell. It just stood there, stupidly, without entertaining me and just making me tired every time i used it.
Those things suck, and people who buy them are stupid ***** that ruin everything.
/s - inactive, on 06/17/2009, -3/+10Do you really consider Wii Fit to be a "home fitness product"? It's a game, and we both know it.
- Tenareth, on 06/17/2009, -3/+10OMG, someone stopped for a second and worked on GAME PLAY instead of just graphics... what will we ever do?
I swear for a while games were coming out to just one-up each other on graphics and forgot entirely that the game should be fun to play... - Endrian, on 06/17/2009, -0/+7@ voomfoo:
Let's just face facts here, okay? You're just mad that a machine that doesn't focus exclusively on perfectly graphically representing explosive heads is actually doing better financially than your favorite head-exploding console of choice. You need to just accept this and move on. - Antialias, on 06/17/2009, -0/+7Films are on DVD for many years. That is a bit more analogous to Wii Fit since it's a purchase that you buy at a store and take home. Many movies make far more on the DVD sales anyway.
- JCEEZ, on 06/17/2009, -0/+7I love how anytime anything Wii related come on Digg, people ***** a brick.
For the most part people who buy the Wii ARE NOT people who go on Digg.
Freakin chill people. Nintendo has been around for a pretty long time and knows what its doing. - barc0001, on 06/17/2009, -0/+7And in other news, Nintendo probably doesn't care if you use the Wii Fit boards as exercise devices or for paving your driveway, just as long as they're laughing all the way to the bank with their two BILLION dollars in sales on the books.
I'm just saying, hate on big N all you want, they're not hurting at all. - inactive, on 06/17/2009, -6/+11Have you ever actually played it?? Doesn't sound like it
- cubicledrone, on 06/17/2009, -0/+5The one where two recognizable actors go from place to place trying to out-attitude each other and everyone around them. If it's an action movie, they are surrounded by explosions. If it's a comedy, the man spends the entire movie getting kicked in the crotch. If it's a romantic comedy, the woman is the one kicking the man in the crotch.
That movie has been at the box office since the Earth cooled. - ericcc, on 06/17/2009, -0/+5@awezing
I saw Titanic a full 14months after it's debut and the theater was still nearly sold out. - voomfoo, on 06/17/2009, -16/+21That means they're going to make more useless *****. I hope this fad ends soon...
- EtherGnat, on 06/17/2009, -1/+6More fun games for who? I guarantee you my parents find more games to enjoy on the Wii than they would on the 360 or PS3. Hell, I do to for that matter. Nobody is saying you have to like the Wii, but pull your head out of the sand and realize there are reasons why millions of people do.
- ericcc, on 06/17/2009, -0/+5Well played.
- scy1192, on 06/17/2009, -3/+8if you wanted graphics, you'd go with PC anyways
- zip000, on 06/17/2009, -0/+5No, I'm referring to the Wii Fit Plus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_Fit_Plus
http://e3.nintendo.com/wii/w10/index.html
Which they showed at E3 this year. - inactive, on 06/17/2009, -4/+8You probably lost 20 lbs because you ate better and were trying things you normally didn't do. Wii fit is not a miracle worker.
- SoulGrub, on 06/18/2009, -0/+4Because of disease and poverty? Oh, you mean because wii sales are too high.
- inactive, on 06/17/2009, -4/+8NO U
- jromz03, on 06/18/2009, -1/+5I just love seeing anti-nintendo fanboys cry here in Digg... ironically they would be the first to shoo away nintendo fans on sony or microsoft diggs.
- SteveMax, on 06/17/2009, -0/+4@voomfoo
We used to make fun of the "hardcore gamers" (those who played only FPSs at LAN houses and thought themselves to be cooler than everyone else) when they entered the market, some 10 years ago. They had a single genre they wanted to play, and mostly stayed in a single game (CounterStrike at the time) all the time. They were annoying, and they infected most of the industry in the following years. They are the reason we see so many "OMG-so-pretty" graphics, "OMG-blood"/"BOOM-headshot", gray FPSs that play basically the same. Real gaming as we were used to kept on going though, and the extra money they bought to the table helped improving those normal games too; so we learned to ignore most FPSs and most "hardcore gamers", and life went on.
Now, there is a new type of players coming, the "casuals", and the "hardcore" are freaking out. They won't be the media darlings anymore: the publishers have found a better gold mine, so they don't need to publish rubbish FPS after rubbish FPS anymore; they can earn more money with the (cheaper) casual games, and use that to create better regular games. FPSs will still exist, but fewer and (hopefully) with better average quality. You will learn to adapt; perhaps some day you will even graduate from "skull explosions" to deeper games. Life will go on; don't hate the new gamers who will help fund your hobby. - phpirate, on 06/17/2009, -0/+4Unless nintendo gets revenue from craigslist, no.
- cubicledrone, on 06/17/2009, -2/+5Won't stop people from criticizing Nintendo, of course.
- Tenareth, on 06/17/2009, -0/+3Ah cool, hadn't seen it.
- phpirate, on 06/17/2009, -0/+3It's not really a fad. There's just an untapped market of casual gamers who buy up this stuff. They can't really play the online shooters and whatever mostly because it doesn't interest them and they didn't grow up with video games like most of the hardcore gamers did.
Although I liked mario galaxy and am going to buy the two new mario titles, mostly because I'm a nostalgiafag and always liked nintendos gameplay first approach. Nobody plays nintendo games for a storyline or graphics, they play them for fun, kindof why you turn on games in the first place. - Tenareth, on 06/17/2009, -1/+4The Wii Fit is actually very nice, my entire family uses it daily. We also got Wii Active, it was a really smart move to release Wii Fit, broadened their demographic considerably.
- Awezing, on 06/17/2009, -2/+5What film has been at the box office for a year?
- AmusedToDeath, on 06/17/2009, -1/+4Well, they're definitely getting there. A family of four could easily spend $40 on tickets alone to see one movie. If you buy drinks/popcorn/candy for everyone you're looking at another $20-30.
- poppabk, on 06/17/2009, -1/+3How did it slow the pace of advancement of graphics chip technology when the driver of that is PC's not consoles? Did the 360 slow the pace of wireless technology because it only came with a wired connection?
- Tenareth, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2Are you referring to EA Active? Not really the "next version", it's a new package from EA that uses the board and controllers.
But yeah, you can setup an entire routine and not get bogged down switching. It only shows you how to do it the first time you do a new exercise. It is also a much more intense workout. - JCEEZ, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2Have you ever had a female over at your apartment and busted out Halo 3 on the 360? Probably not.
Has a chick ever been over and for a brief moment you busted out some Wii Tennis? Maybe
This is the same reason we have matches behind the toilet. - andrewlotta, on 06/17/2009, -1/+3That isn't the point he was trying to make...
- dustinjr1993, on 06/19/2009, -0/+2ITS PRINTING TOO MUCH MONEY!!!!!
- TheBlueVulcan, on 06/17/2009, -0/+2You can thank Wii Fit for allowing EA Fitness to exist.
- h0ly, on 06/18/2009, -0/+2But maybe he would not have eaten better and tried different things if it wasn't for the motivation provided by Wii Fit, so... it's a subjective thing.
- ericcc, on 06/17/2009, -4/+5Obviously this is an issue of taste. You consider it ***** but many people don't. If they make more of it for those that enjoy it. I don't see why it would affect you or why you would care.
- an0nym0us, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1....and people say Christ is the saviour,
- cubicledrone, on 06/17/2009, -2/+3Because games are all about graphics. Must be why most games suck.
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