Seriously...are you?

How much is it? I want one. Seriously.

Just think of it as hacking the coolest device of all, the human body! Works for me, at least.

Now, when they have sensor devices like this in carpet form, you'll be able to have whole rooms to move around in and interact with virtual 3d characters. What would this be called, maybe a holo-deck...?

That was the best cancer joke I've heard in ages.

and have seriously been thinking about buying the Wii Fit but am not sure if it is worth it. The games and workout seem a little cheesy (especially since I work out) and I'm not sure how much I would play it. That and I couldn't be sure how much my 16 year old son would either.

We love Wii Sports but aren't convinced that Wii Fit will be as good. Besides Wii can all agree that the graphics are 5 years too late. That and Wii hasn't found the World Wide Web. I'm thinking about selling the thing.

Check out the new developments here: Sweet!

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Don't worry everyone's a winner, everyone's a special snowflake. Here's a small trophy and a cookie. You're SPECIAL !!!!! yaaay.

You're a big fat lumpy load and you're outraged that the machine might actually be right.

So why on God's Deep Fried Earth did you buy it again?

Don't worry though if you're like the other 85% who go to the gym religiously, you'll have the same wheezing lumpy fishbowl shape 5 years from now.

The best thing you can do with the Wii Fit is jam the refrigerator door with it.

Are you saying I'm the big fat lumpy load, or are you talking to someone else? If it's me, I wonder why you think that.

That's when I'll buy it.

We got a Wii Fit, and we picked up a copy of Wii Ski. Excellent games. I'm terrible at yoga, yes the damn machine also asked if I often trip when I'm walking. But nevermind. It's fun. I do not have room in my life for a yoga class. But doing yoga in the privacy of my living room with a device that can tell what I'm doing is pretty cool. And I don't have to feel like a dweeb in front of other people.

I'm not a gamer. But the Wii is fun. I'm looking forward to trying out the rest of the games in Wii Fit.

@Electro

Are you saying I'm the big fat lumpy load, or are you talking to someone else? If it's me, I wonder why you think that.

-- Farhad Manjoo

That's just one of Salon's resident trolls. No need to dignify his post with a response. Besides, you made it clear in your article that you're underweight, not overweight.

Now, it's time for my nightly exercise - gotta go outside for a quick smoke.

And you have the body of a 50 year old. It can't be a real shocker to you. It's like on the mid day talk shows and some mall rhino trundles out crying about being 100lbs overweight. Really? You didn't notice before? We did.

Anyway all you folks are the antismoking Nazis I bet. Funny thing is, you're next.

Thinking your special because of your age is something that we've all gone through. But I will have to say that with your generation's poor diet, lack of excercise, bad drinking and drugging habits, you probably won't make it to middle-age anyway. But we'll be sure and stick that PlayStation in your coffin.

The Wii has had these "ages" from the beginning. In Wii Sports, which comes with every console, there is a training mode where you play 3 of the mini-games from the practice area and based on your results there it compiles a fitness age. Woe be to someone who hasn't mastered the games because your age can be pretty high.

It's just a score, like any other game, it's only because they called it an age that gives you and others a complex. Since they called it an age, though, it's an excellent motivator, since we're hardwired to think that, at least in terms of fitness, younger is better, so it's a built in encouragement to keep playing to avoid a lower/better score.

Other games do similar things. I've been playing the Big Brain Academy lately, and it gives you two scores. A weight in grams (which makes no sense to me as I know my brain isn't gaining any mass) and after a test a letter grade. Again, it's easy for anyone who's gone to school to understand that a B- is better than a C+.

It's not bad enough that so many video games promote racism, random slaughter and killing your hooker after you're done with her. Now it has to affect your real life.

For the record, exercise should not be enforced by fascists like Richard Simmons, would-be boot camp instructors or the psychos given "PE teacher" certification in every high school in the nation. It should be a personal decision you make. Teens are continually told they're scum and worthless by gym teachers (actually ALL teachers in America do that) and it obviously doesn't work. So why would you pay for an expensive video game that does the same thing?

Do something reasonable. Go out and walk for half an hour and build from there. Don't buy anything Nintendo for anything, especially not something to pump you into a freaking heart attack or suicide attempt.

Guess what?

I, am guessing that, like pretty much everyone else that owns one, I chose to purchase wii fit and try it out. All on my own!

I've also chosen to ride my bike to work everyday and eat much more healthy than I ever have in the past. Again, all of my own volition! Amazing ain't it?

So please keep the fascism to yourself.

I like Wii. Unlike so many other platforms, it does not seem exclusively aimed at a teenage boy'mentality. It's games are more wholesome, and the physically interactive aspect can really be fun in titles like Sports, Carnival Games, and Mario Kart Racing.

I agree with Farhad that the board, itself, is promising, but the software is lacking. Its attitude "hits" sour notes over and over. It's taunting and belittling instead of encouraging. Perhaps this theme was successful in Japanese culture, but in the US, I think most will just find it annoying.

The game seems to take itself too seriously as well - as though it really thinks it is a profound workout tool. Dance Revolution and Wii Sport boxing can give you some aerobic exercise, but don't take themselves this stupidly serious. Make it fun, the exercise will come. Take your pathetic taunts and shove 'em up your disc slot.