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Yoga, With a Side of Fries, Please

Posted on Friday, July 13 @ 17:46:05 Eastern by JP_Hurh

Nintendo’s nifty new peripheral, the Balance Board, is a pressure-sensitive pad that monitors your center of gravity. I got a feet-on preview yesterday and was impressed by the board’s tight sensitivity. Lean even a little more heavily on your toes or on one leg, and the little blip on the screen swerves with your drunk self.

But I was more skeptical about the “Wii Fit” game bundle that will be packaged with it. The weight-distribution pad seems a godsend for surfing, skating, and skiing games. However, Wii Fit aims for the good-for-you approach, offering a full contingent of Yoga sessions and a few mini-games (one of which, to be fair, is a ski-jump sim).

Yoga, on Wii Fit, is all about keeping your balance while performing contortions that are modeled by a sports-bra-clad virtual instructor. However, the game can’t be sure you’re actually doing those contortions. You could stand on one leg motionless, or better yet, you could just chuck a brick on the pad and relieve your fridge of the leftover pizza and beer while apparently performing a perfect “one-legged king pigeon.”

Of course, cheating defeats the purpose of any fitness program, but if you have the discipline to follow an exercise regimen, you probably already have a gym membership and can go to a real yoga class with real boobs in a real sports bra. Gamers, on the very rare occasion, have been known to cheat. So do those good-intentioned folks whose Tai-Bo videotapes and basement-dwelling treadmills compete for the amount of dust they can collect. Neither, one would expect, will change their habits or waist size as a result of virtual Yoga.

Comments

andydawg1988
Joined: Mar 2007

Posted: Jul 13th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
I refuse to believe a game like this could exist. Fitness stands against everything I believe in.

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Battlemage
Joined: Apr 2007

Posted: Jul 13th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
This game is a prime example of how society has changed drastically. People are always desperate for the easy way out. Here is a newsflash for anyone who thinks this "game" is a great idea: IT WON'T WORK. No one is going to lose weight just standing on a pad all day. Is it a good idea? No. Will it sell? Most definately.

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joeblow
Joined: Feb 2007

Posted: Jul 13th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Wish my house was as clean as hers.

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ByoDyne
Joined: Jan 2007

Posted: Jul 13th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
This sounds just like the Dance Aerobics game that used the Power Pad for the NES. I sense a flop.

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wildmario
Joined: Jan 2007

Posted: Jul 13th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
oh it will sell well to the fools who think this will make em lose weight overnight

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Padain
Joined: Mar 2007

Posted: Jul 13th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
fat ***** just gunna break it while shes eating her triple cheese supreme pizza

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kazam92
Joined: Mar 2007

Posted: Jul 14th, 2007 at 12:06 am
why are the GR posters always so negative? Why won't it work? I'm sure its not as effective as hitting the gym all day but it could work

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Barth_Vader
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jul 14th, 2007 at 6:24 am
But is it fun?

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Battlemage
Joined: Apr 2007

Posted: Jul 14th, 2007 at 11:57 am
It won't work because the people who buy this crap don't really want to do anything but sit around the TV all day, that's why. No, this seems like just a last ditch effort to cash into peoples' insecurities to me.

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username8000
Joined: Jul 2006

Posted: Jul 14th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
My ex-wife bought Yourself! Fitness for the PS2. She used it twice. Now I have a crappy game that no one will buy.

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