Comments on: Wii is a kind of magic

By: wiifitbloke

wiifitbloke — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:30:07 +0000

I’ve had a Wii and Wii Fit for a couple of months now, and love them both. I haven’t played computer games for years, because of the obsession with boring first-person shooters and other carnage based games which seem to demand you surrender your life in order to get any good.

The Wii has made me enjoy computer games for the first time in ages.

The Wii Fit is also helping me enjoy exercise more. Like Stephen, I find most exercise utterly tedious. So Wii Fit is a godsend. I’ve also just created a forum for Wii Fit users at http://www.wiifitforum.org/, where people can get a bit of mutual support and share ideas and tips. It’s brand new, so there isn’t much on it yet, but check it out and sign up to join in if you a Wii Fit user.

Paul

By: libbysl

libbysl — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:19:18 +0000

i absolutely love my wii, its something me and my kids can do together!

By: StickyKeys

StickyKeys — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:59:50 +0000

I adore the Wii, and if you have any kids at home under the age of 13 you MUST have the accessories. Don’t owrry though, the kids will get sick of them soon enough and then you can pass them on to the next bunch!

By: Chris Wood

Chris Wood — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:12:36 +0000

Doctors are fiendish and must be ignored for the general good. And perhaps Wii could launch some specific ornament smashing software? Seems only fair, really.

By: LynxLuna

LynxLuna — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:09:28 +0000

I’ve had a Wii for a year and I have to say it’s the best console anyone has ever achieved. It had to be Nintendo’s, of course. Sony and Microsoft, with their Playstation and Xbox, have always bet for graphics’ quality increasing. Nintendo, on the other hand, has always bet for fun/interaction increasing, putting in their machines the latest tecnological achievements and the most original ideas. That’s what makes them so powerful and so competitive in a market that seems like a battle field.

I’ve tried the Wii-Fit in my brother’s, and now I want one for myself. It’s fun and it actually makes you sweat, which it’s the point of the whole thing. I tried it about a half an hour and time literally flew, although I was so tired I barely could stand. Mario kart is pure fun too, you feel the car as if you were actually driving it. And besides, the magic thing has one of the better and most beautiful Zeldas you can play.

Worth buying, worth playing.

By: Porfyria

Porfyria — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:26:03 +0000

I bought a Wii bundled with Wii Fit about 2 months ago for a couple of reasons.
1. Most important reason, I wanted one (lets get to the other self righteous justifications in a minute). I thought the Wii looked like fun, and I could never get around to some one else’s house who had one to try out.

2. I was hoping it would get my 12 y/o son, who seems to have had his flesh melded with the controller to the Xbox 360 moving around a bit more.

3. I really wanted the Wii Fit for exercise purposes. Yes – I could go for a walk, but when I bought the Wii Fit, it was the middle of winter (in Australia) and ever so dark at 6.00 am. At least this way I could still get up early, and exercise in the relative warmth of inside, and have a bit of fun, as well as track my progress.

3A. I didn’t want to join a gym because I have a history of getting sick of the gym and letting my membership lapse, and the gym I priced before the purchase of the Wii Fit tried to give me the hard sell, which just gave me the flaming irrits, and this way, I have a games console too.

I do have a few gripes about the Wii Fit:
- It can take about 3/4 of an hour to do a half hour work out, what with the messages urging you to have your Wii-mote securely stowed and all that.
- The weight sensor is ridiculously sensitive – I really don’t understand how I can lose and gain up to 5kg (sometimes) in a 48 hour period – and then it wants to know why you’ve gained this weight, then lectures you about it.
- It tries to make you feel bad for not coming every day.

But having said all that, I am really pleased with the console. It is fun to play the Wii Sport games with my family, and it is soooo easy to use. So easy in fact that my mum was able to pick up how to use the Wii-mote and play competently (therefore having fun) in a few minutes. So she’s now buying one for herself.

And yes – I have lost some weight, and I’m pretty sure I have increased my aerobic fitness as well – no longer quite as sweaty and shagged out by a number of the exercises.

By: just john

just john — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:56:13 +0000

Some of the chips for the Wii are made where I work, in East Fishkill, NY.

And yeah, that fitness stuff is high on my list of reasons for wanting one.

By: NeilHoskins

NeilHoskins — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:30:33 +0000

Wii tips of the day:

- Use the browser to watch BBC iPlayer (or other online video) on your TV rather than at the computer.
- Install Orb on your PC then use the Wii’s browser to listen to your music downloads and ripped CDs on your home entertainment system rather than your PC’s crappy speakers.

By: merseymal

merseymal — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:03:18 +0000

I respectfully disagree about the steering wheel being useless add on as I find that the wii remote isn’t very comfortable to hold horizontally with both hands when mimicking steering.

I know you can use the nunchuk with it and hold them both vertically, but it feels like cheating.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:00:35 +0000

I love my Wii, but I’m not really interested in WiiFit. Probably because I know I’d buy it, play it for a couple weeks, then never use it again. Same thing happened to my mom’s treadmill. She and I used it diligently for a month then used it for a coat hanger until we got rid of it at a garage sale. Pretty sad, eh?