Wii Fit Is on Fire
By Alexandre Carst
16:56, April 29th 2008
Nintendo is definitely on the right track with its fitness title Wii Fit, as this week, the company’s product became the sixth fastest selling game of all time in the UK. This incredible popularity is anything but an isolated thing: in Japan, in the almost five months that have passed since the official release, more than 1.4 million copies of the game have been sold.
This is turning out to be quite a month for Nintendo: a few weeks ago in the UK, Mario Kart Wii became the eighth fastest selling game and in Japan, the blockbuster release managed to sell nearly 600,000 copies in only one week, clearly dominating the sales charts.
Wii Fit reportedly recorded no less than £16.3 million ($32.4 million) in revenues, coming in third in the charts right after Halo 3, which recorded £16.9 million ($33.6 million) and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which had revenues of £24.2 million ($48.2 million).
Wii Fit is unlike anything out there as it can respond to the player’s weight and movement; it has special sensors that follow the player’s side-to-side and front-to-back movements in order to correlate the dynamics of the player's avatar. Activities that can be performed on Wii, while instructed by one of the two virtual trainers, include balance games, yoga, aerobics, strength training, and muscle-toning exercises. The package includes the Wii Balance Board and Wii Fit software.
Source: eNewsLabels: Nintendo, Wii, Wii Fit |
