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Microsoft: Wii Fit is for wimps, rumours suggest rival aLive

shuandrew | May 23, 2008 | News | Wii 
Little over a day after Wii Fit launched in North America, reports suggest that Microsoft is to launch a more energetic competitor for the Xbox 360, called aLive. What's more, the firm has claimed that Wii Fit "is for wimps."
While we've already reported Microsoft's first steps in linking itself and the Xbox 360 to a healthy lifestyle by sponsoring the first annual Family Fitness Day, reports suggest that it is in the process of developing a more "violent" rival to Wii Fit, called aLive, which will launch this June.

To rub salt into the wound, WiiFitChat.com reports that Microsoft has dubbed that Nintendo's Wii Fit is "for wimps."
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  • 0 thumbs!
    Final Blade | May 23, 2008
    "Wii Fit is for wimps"

    Wow good one MS.
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    Smiffers | May 23, 2008
    HA! I think Wii Fit will outsell any competitors anyway, The Wii has the Wii Board and Microsoft has a controller, how the hell is a controller going to make you fit? Unless they take another idea from Nintendo (first being the Remote that looks like a Wii remote)and make a board, this is going to be a flop.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Zeon I | May 23, 2008
    I never thought Microsoft would copy Nintendo. Now, anything is possible. Dreamcast 2, this Christmas, plix.
    • -1 thumbs!
      Capn Droid | May 23, 2008
      You should see the XBoxmote they invented. Doesn't roll off the tongue as easy as Wiimote.
      • 2 thumbs!
        R1DDL3S | May 23, 2008
          Xmote works though.
        • 0 thumbs!
          Capn Droid | May 24, 2008
          Good point you made. A remote that sounds boxy probably wouldn't be very comfortable anyways. :\
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    Dance Floor Killah | May 23, 2008
    Now this will be interesting... I'd like to see how this works.
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    shadow993 | May 23, 2008
    aLive. Nice one. >>

    A violent WiiFit. That'll draw in the family, no?
    • 2 thumbs!
      slumpy monkey | May 23, 2008
      Who cares about the family, MS want "gamers"
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    R1DDL3S | May 23, 2008
      Wonder what they will do to make it more "violent". Uphill running simulation for three hours chasing a bear that mauled you even though you should be running away?
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    DusktoDawn | May 23, 2008
    Nerds make video games.

    Nerds are wimps.
    • 1 thumbs!
      R1DDL3S | May 24, 2008
        nerds are the reason you are able to post that.
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    Rinkydink | May 23, 2008
    The Microsoft version will have you running on the spot and blowing people's heads off at the same time!

    "Dance and yoga are fun, but violent actions are what get people in shape"

    Actually, getting the hell outside and doing some sport gets you fit. If a person uses Wii Fit as their main method of keeping fit, then yes, they are wimps.
    • 3 thumbs!
      Smiffers | May 23, 2008
      Oh, So when MS brings out aLive, they wont be wimps?
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      R1DDL3S | May 24, 2008
        Blowing heads off=win.
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    Twisted | May 24, 2008
    Wii fit has sold so much in Europe, and they are saying it is for wimps? They just insulted so many people.
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    Xenctuary | May 24, 2008
    I've changed the title. Microsoft haven't actually announced "aLive" yet.
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    Existenz | May 24, 2008
    WiiFit is for masochists... There is only one way to describe those that sit back while a game insults them and their family calling them all fat, I hate WiiFit i could get a better work out for less at a gym and i would save money at the same time. aLive could work aslong as they don't tell me that my last meal made me clinically obese when i am infact probably more underweight than anything... aLive will work if it does make you work and it cheaper.
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      R1DDL3S | May 24, 2008
        You couldn't save money by going to a gym instead of buying Wii Fit. $90 one time or $60 a month every month?
      • 0 thumbs!
        slumpy monkey | May 25, 2008
        Maby not save money, But get more value for it.
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          Capn Droid | May 26, 2008
          More value my ass. First, they invent a place where you exercise, to replace the exercise you get when you harvest wheat, work in the fields, do all the 1800s stuff that got abolished with the new era... and now, video game exercise equipment?

          Seriously, it's borderline pathetic.

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