Consumer Reports Gets Its Game On

Itninja writes "A few days ago Consumer Reports posted their first report on a specific video game: Wii Fit. From the article: 'Our testers ranged in age from 24 to 69 and included 10 women and five men. Users ran the gamut from regular exercisers to mostly sedentary folks.' Will this be a harbinger of things to come? Will CR be reviewing the next installment of Gran Turismo?"

Comments

Wee Fit

[writerjosh]

I think it's obvious to anyone with common sense that this Wii Fit can hardly be considered a workout. On one hand, I commend Nintendo for at least attempting to get people off the couch, but it's only a half-a$$ed attempt. It's kind of like McDonald's offering salads to their menu so they can call themselves a "responsible" fast-food joint. Will Nintendo now say they are a "responsible" video game company? It's too little too late.

Besides, after the buzz wears down, anyone doing these "exercises" will quickly discover there are no results to be had, and the balancing board will end up in the closet with the rest of the rubber bands, abdominizors, and exercises dvds.

Perhaps a better alternative would be to attach electrodes to the player's butt and give them a shock every time they miss. That would keep couch potatoes on their toes. ;)