[QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="ChinoJamesKeene"][QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="ChinoJamesKeene"][QUOTE="mjarantilla"][QUOTE="hornymushroom"] How could something like this exist. It's a disgrace to gaming and shows that people should just watch TV all day and THINK they're exercising when they really just leaning side to side. This is a big step back for the gaming industry.
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ChinoJamesKeene
No, it's the biggest step FORWARD since WiiSports, and WiiSports was the biggest step forward since Pong. Hardcore gamers like you who bash it are like action movie junkies who wish that Hollywood should only make, well, action movies.
Wii sports is the reason i got a Wii but honestly Wiifit is going too far. If i want to exercise i'll go outside and run around, we don't really need some elaborate condecending aerobics video telling us what to do for $150. The Wii is meant to be for escapism and entertainment, i just can't see what anybody would get from a game simulating mundane exercises that could be done for free.
Yeah i know there are sports simulations, but how many poeple can be part of a club and play every week? let alone play for a pro team, at least sports games let you have that.
WiiFit isn't for exercise, it's for monitoring. Sure, you can exercise, but WiiFit provides detailed and helpful tools that you would otherwise have to create yourself (tracking graphs, comparisons, etc.). Exercise alone does no one any good unless the exerciser goes overboard with his workouts. Most people WANT to get fit, but most people can't be bothered with taking the time to track themselves getting fit. WiiFit does it for them. It lets them see their results in real-time, and with no more effort than it takes to change a TV channel.
Just as an analogous example, take hybrid cars. Part of the reason they help people save so much gas is because most hybrid cars have built-in mileage monitoring capabilities built right into the dashboard. Having that kind of at-your-fingertips, instant feedback goes a LONG way towards motivating you to keep up your positive momentum.
Yeah you could use it like that, but its being marketed as a fitness solution in itself. It's also pretty much pointless to track how fit you are getting, you should feel it when you are exerting yourself not looking at charts with happy stick figures underneath. If you want to get fit you are going to have to work to do it and you aren't going to get that stepping on and off that balance board, no amount of positive re-enforcement Wiifit gives you is really going to motivate you further than your own resolve.
Wrong. It's proven that even mild activity like Half an hour of walking and some yoga can have a significant impact on your fitness. WiiFit IS a fitness solution BECAUSE it provides positive reinforcement. Why do you think people hire personal trainers anyway, and why do you think those people see so many more benefits from their workouts than people who don't hire them? It's ALL about positive reinforcement. Having WiiFit doesn't preclude you from jogging or from lifting weights. It just helps you see the benefit. And the added exercises of WiiFit -- steps and yoga, among others -- are both proven to be effective fitness boosters.
So basically you are saying if you can get up to walk for 30mins you don't need Wiifit. Poeple get personal trainers because of the instruction they give about strengthening specific muscle groups and overall advise, but thats practical and logical. I just have trouble believing poeple would hold their computer generated stats as greater indicator of progress over the way they feel.
EDIT: Ok, that's it, I'm bowing out. of this thread. I'm getting too worked up over something that should be perfectly obvious. Writers keep word logs, hypermilers keep mileage logs, etc., etc. Basically ANYONE attempting anything keeps some sort of progress log. WiiFit takes that responsibility away from the exerciser and makes it automatic. Seeing his progress laid out for him plainly on a graph goes a LONG way towards keeping the person motivated to continue whatever it is he's doing, and if you deny that, then I don't know WTF is wrong with you.
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