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XBox Now Your Personal Fitness Trainer?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the get-on-up-get-into-it-get-involved dept.

Analise writes "First there's the DDR Workout, and now a game developer out of Portland, OR has come up with Yourself!Fitness, a video game targeted at women and to be used on your friendly neighborhood XBox - the title 'features a computer-generated personal trainer who guides users through a customized set of exercises and diets.' The game [the original NYT article includes a small screenshot] is slated to be released this fall and the Sony Playstation version is expected to be ready by the end of the year. The game company's co-founder is quoted as saying, 'We're creating games that are good for you.'"

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  1. Re:My eyes! by Analise · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I actually do see a need for this sort gaming. My niece, who loves video games, is 194lbs and turned 13 this month!

    Uhm, they already have gaming to help with that. It's called, "going outside and riding your bicycle, or climbing a tree, or running around like a chicken with your head cut off". I know a lot of people around here are the kind of people who spend a lot of time indoors (yes, me included), but there's a great big world out there in which kids should spend time. Seems like a video game for exercise is just going to encourage people to sit around inside more and complain about how they need to go to the gym.

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  2. Makes Sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "a video game targeted at women" I guess only women care about fitness and health. Why not make it gender neutral?

    1. Re:Makes Sense by Analise · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Same reason most exercise/aerobic videos are targeted at women. Because women will buy them. Men generally wouldn't. Men, if they're going to exercise, are much more likely to simply go outside and exercise or go to the gym.

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  3. Why is this geared towards women? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The only video games women play, for the most part, are ones like "The Sims." XBOX, for example, is hugely male (yes, the pun is intended).

    Don't they realize that all the fat gamers are guys? What's the deal?