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

May 23, 2008 in News comments 21

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."
shuandrew via wiifitchat.blogspot.com »
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  • 0
    Final Blade May 23, 08
    "Wii Fit is for wimps"

    Wow good one MS.
  • 0
    Smiffers May 23, 08
    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
    Zeon I May 23, 08
    I never thought Microsoft would copy Nintendo. Now, anything is possible. Dreamcast 2, this Christmas, plix.
    • -1
      Capn Droid May 23, 08
      You should see the XBoxmote they invented. Doesn't roll off the tongue as easy as Wiimote.
      • 2
        R1DDL3S May 23, 08
          Xmote works though.
        • 0
          Capn Droid May 24, 08
          Good point you made. A remote that sounds boxy probably wouldn't be very comfortable anyways. :\
  • 0
    Dance Floor Killah May 23, 08
    Now this will be interesting... I'd like to see how this works.
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    Distortion May 23, 08
    aLive. Nice one. >>

    A violent WiiFit. That'll draw in the family, no?
    • 2
      Slumpy monkey May 23, 08
      Who cares about the family, MS want "gamers"
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    R1DDL3S May 23, 08
      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?
  • -2
    DusktoDawn May 23, 08
    Nerds make video games.

    Nerds are wimps.
    • 1
      R1DDL3S May 24, 08
        nerds are the reason you are able to post that.
  • 0
    Rinkydink May 23, 08
    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
      Smiffers May 23, 08
      Oh, So when MS brings out aLive, they wont be wimps?
    • -1
      R1DDL3S May 24, 08
        Blowing heads off=win.
  • 0
    Twisted May 23, 08
    Wii fit has sold so much in Europe, and they are saying it is for wimps? They just insulted so many people.
  • 0
    Xenctuary May 24, 08
    I've changed the title. Microsoft haven't actually announced "aLive" yet.
  • 0
    Existenz May 24, 08
    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, 08
        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
        Slumpy monkey May 24, 08
        Maby not save money, But get more value for it.
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          Capn Droid May 25, 08
          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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