I have always wondered how doing yoga and leaning from one side to the other on a bathroom scale was supposed to make you fit. As it turns out, you’d be better off sticking to your Billy Blanks or Buns of Steel tapes.
Much like the cake in Portal, the Wii Fit is a lie. It lures people in with the promise of getting fit, when it does nothing of the sort. The only difference between the Wii Fit and Portal cake is the fiery death at the end.
In a recent interview on Nintendo’s own website, Shigeru Miyamoto, Senior Managing Director of Nintendo, let the world know that the Wii Fit, does not to make you fit.
“I don’t think Wii Fit’s purpose is to make you fit; what it’s actually aiming to do is make you aware of your body.”
So, if you didn’t know you were fat or ugly before hand, one spin on the Wii Fit should open your eyes, fatty.
Why would they market the Wii Fit as a “fit”ness, even though it will never live up to the their own man-made hype? He went on to explain:
“…we wanted people to talk with their families about Wii Fit, and become aware of these things together as a group. If you’re standing still, and it tells you ‘Your body is swaying’, you can see on the training results screen that your body has been shaking. But I think you’d never realize that your body is shaking in day-to-day life. I think becoming aware of things like this about yourself is quite interesting.”
So if you have a fat, ugly family they’ll become aware of that too.
There you go. Spend you’re money to find out that your body shakes. That’s the deal of the century.
Instead of spending your hard earned money on a Wii Fit, how bout you just send me your picture via email along with some of that dough and I’ll tell you that you’re a fatty. If it would make you feel better, you can stand on one leg when you send the email over…
The Wii Fit is a lie!
Source Kotaku
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16 responses so far ↓
1 The Ploogle // Feb 14, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Lol! I want one!
…can’t a *less expensive* bathroom scale tell you the same thing? Mirrors aren’t that hard to find, either…
2 VinDali // Feb 14, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Your waistband is usually a good indicator too.
3 Frantik // Feb 14, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Next we’ll hear that playing Guitar Hero doesn’t make you learn how to play a real guitar.
4 Tweep // Feb 14, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Nobody is marketing Guitar Hero as a method of teaching you to play the guitar… They sold a million of these in Japan where the average person has a diet much cleaner than ours and they are much more fit as a society.
I wonder when they bring this over into the cheeseburger society that is ours if they won’t be opening themselves up to some sort of pathetic class action lawsuit as nobody is going to lose a pound on this ‘fitness’ product.
I think the notion is somewhat silly, a lawsuit because you didn’t lose weight with a gimmick/game, but I have seen much stranger things. Any thoughts?
5 Keith K // Feb 14, 2008 at 3:25 pm
This is absolutely true.. but exposing Wii garbage as a gimmick isnt exactly what I’d call a breaking story..
Oh by the way.. George W. Bush didnt actually win the 2000 election and is a complete idiot.
6 Pojut // Feb 14, 2008 at 3:56 pm
My girlfriend and I will likely buy one when it comes out anyway…much like Wii boxing is used to suppliment my exercise routine (15-20 minutes when I get home from work is an excellent warmup before I start lifting) I could see us incorporating this into our lives…perhaps use it as a weekend workout kind of deal. Not going to produce crazy results, but used in conjuction with everything else that we do it should provide at least some bit of usefulness…plus it just looks plain fun:-)
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7 Dave B // Feb 14, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Can I be an editor for you guys? Pretty please?
No offence, Dave. You have a great name.
8 RaiseHavok // Feb 14, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I know a lot of people say that Sony almost killed their brand with the first year of the PS3, but I think, at least for hardcore gamers, Nintendo is killing their brand. Sadly, there are some people out there that think this game will provide adequate exercise and will continue to sit on the couch after their 30 minutes of “exercise” on the Wii balance board.
9 patrick // Feb 14, 2008 at 5:06 pm
What are you trying to tell me Dave ?
Just because I’m fat, ugly and lazy that the wii fit won’t make me a into lean mean game killing machine. Dam it I thought the wii fit was the answer to all my problems. Oh well back to paying for hookers and wearing that paper bag over my head again.
10 AtomicFlapjack // Feb 14, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Hmm… I hate to say it, but you said “Spend you’re money to find out that your body shakes. That’s the deal of the century.” You’re? That means “Spend you are money to find out that your body shakes.” The word is “your,” not as bad as “realer,” But I am taking a state writing and Reading test (PSSA) so school has re-wired my beain to pick these things out.
11 AtomicFlapjack // Feb 14, 2008 at 10:31 pm
*Brain, nor Beain… lol
12 irish boy90 // Feb 15, 2008 at 7:20 am
well its not ment for us, its for the casual gamers who do want to find out if their body shakes
13 yun // Feb 15, 2008 at 6:26 pm
u knw, if wat they say is tru, it wud probably not work properly for the overweight neways…
and if it shakes, its cuz theyre breathing heavily! duh!
that chik on the far right of the pic luks wiifit tho
14 Sideshow Circus // Feb 18, 2008 at 11:14 am
Wow, you’d think that they would actually do this amazing thing called “research” about their product
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16 this jerk is so stupid // Jul 30, 2008 at 5:20 pm
lol wii fit is not a lie i bought mine when it came outand i have used it 6 days a week for 30-45 minutes and guess what i lost weight wow in 2 months i lost 14 lbs and and the yoga is awesome i used to wake up with back pain well after doing yoga i wake up pain free so it was money well spent
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