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A man that weighs 350 pounds was registering for his profile when the Wii Fit told him that he could not continue due to his weight. The man states that he isn't terribly overweight since he's tall at 6'8". The man was terribly dissapointed since he wanted motivation to lose weight, play a game and keep track of his weight.
In Wii Fit use a balance board (plank movements that you register) for the game to play, a great innovative way of play where Nintendo is of course famous.
The balance board, however, also shows a limit. People who are heavier than 150 kilograms may not be placed on the balance board, because there is a reasonable probability exists that the board fails.
We came today to a message from an angry gamer with a good deal kilos overweight. The man had just purchased Wii Fit and wanted to get started, but was not fit to play the game because he was too heavy. The man weighs as much as 350 lbs, which corresponds to 158 pounds and is 6 feet and 8 inches high, which corresponds to a length of 1.98 meters.
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Most recently commented on by on May 28, 2008
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The Wii isn't going to help you there. You've just wasted over $100.
It's such a shame that people are trading things like gym memberships for the Wii Fit. Nintendo aren't helping people with their weight here - They're fooling people into believing that the Wii Fit is a better option than proper exercise.
Miyamoto can claim that the Wii Fit isn't supposed to make you fit as much as he wants, but if he honestly believed that then he wouldn't have called it the "Wii Fit" in the first place. They're just misleading people. [/ end rant]
Wii Fit is a decent name, I mean what would you title it? Wii Run around and do various activities resembling athletic involvement but don't deliver to you such a result because this is only a family game to get people to interact with each other, we're really sorry if you took it as an actual fitness simulator even though this isn't although seeing as the latest installment for 40 second buns hasn't come out on DVD you're probably hard up for a new escapist tool for sweating off those ounces, sorry that you misunderstood the whole thing we're not promising anything instead we're just giving you a plastic balance board with some sensors glued inside to use so you dont have to wave the Wii-Mote all day and put an eye out?
That'd be a heck of a title.
If you want to talk scams, there are tons of actual scams running about, maybe you should investigate those before running off spraying slander because you can't comprehend the difference between an entertainment title and a title proclaiming to be an exercise simulator that will shave off 120lbs in a weekend.
The person not being able to use the board sounds about right, they're only going to engineer the thing around various tolerances to prevent having to make huge material investments in what was originally a very experimental title.
But thats not why its a scam, half of these Wii fit machines in some fashion insults and adds negative remarks to the user.
FYI those "10 minute abs, 7 minute abs, 5 minute abs, 30 second abs" do actually work more effectively than Wii fit. Hell DDR works better than Wii fit.
Another reason why its a scam is the fact you might be paying less to get activity to lose some calories but the quality isn't as high as going to the gym or doing the examples you use. DDR has a better quality cause your burning around 200 calories most of the arcade mode. I've burned close to 1000 calories just playing the DDR for 45 minutes. How much can you lose with Wii fit?
The problem here is you're defending the lazy and ignorant nature of people using things like DDR and Wii Fit as some escapist tool to change their lives. It's a GAME, it always will be, like I said it was never proposing itself to be a simulator tool and you started by seeing the game as an entertainment title even and yet you still bash it going "How much can you lose with Wii fit"
It makes about as much sense as saying your bowling scores still suck even though you practice daily with Wii Sports and now you've got a big ol sad face about it and that you feel Wii Sports is a scam because you can't bowl a 300 in person. Neither game claimed to be a simulation to solve all your problems.
He'll probably lose more pounds to play Wii Fit than he ever would playing the game
I wonder if they bothered to alter the board's capacity when it shipped to North America because 350 lbs no longer seems like an impossible number these days for many American citizens (the truth hurts). For Asian consumers, on the other hand, 350 lbs is really pushing it; so maybe Nintendo just forgot to take that culture chasm into account...
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The Wii fit is very mean. =(
I think they meant 158kg....
People assume that because it sounds like it should, that it will....
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