Nintendo WII Product News

A couple of days ago, my husband purchased the Nintendo Wii’s My Fitness Coach.  From the looks of it, I supposed it was supposed to be a close competitor of the Wii Fit.

After taking a brief look at it, I can see several differences between the two.  First, My Fitness Coach seems to take what I consider to be a more accurate BMI analysis during the initial profile setup.  While I suppose the Wii Fit goes on only height and weight, My Fitness Coach wants you to enter measurements of biceps, chest, waist, hips, and thighs, like a real fitness coach would.  It also measures your resting and exercising heart rate to find the optimum rate.
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My four year old loves monster trucks (go figure!), so one of the first games we bought when we got our Wii was Monster Jam. This game allows you to drive 20 of the most popular monster trucks on the Monster Jam circuit including Grave Digger, Maximum Destruction, Blue Thunder, and Monster Mutt.

Of course, my son is not quite coordinated enough to drive the trucks, even with the steering wheel, which was a massive help to mom and dad, but he loves watching us. And, while I hate to admit it publically, it is fun to drive these monster trucks as your get to crush cars, jump over obstacles, and basically destroy everything in the stadium. There are different events such as Eliminator, Circuit, Freestyle, Stadium Racing, Stadium Circuit, Time Trial, and Cross Country and if you play the championship and finish 3rd or better, you can unlock tracks.
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Before we got our Nintendo Wii, I thought of it primarily as a gaming system to get you up and moving.  But, one of my favorite games – Big Brain Academy Wii Degree – finds me sitting on the sofa still.

But, while it may not improve your physique, it is designed to help improve your mind.  Big Brain Academy is a series of puzzles done to test your brain power.  There are three ways to play.  You can test to see how you perform originally, practice to get better, or play against someone else.
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If you were out last weekend looking for a Nintendo Wii or decided to avoid the crowds and shop online, you weren’t the only one! For the second consecutive year, the Nintendo Wii was the most sought after item on Black Friday, according to reports by Pricegrabber.com and eBay.com.

And there is obviously still a demand. eBay reported selling 3,171 Wiis and a little over a thousand Wii Fit games. eBay reported the average price of Wiis on Black Friday was $350, about $100 more Nintendo’s suggested price. The Wii Fit game sold for about $50 more than the retail price of $140. Some stores still ran out of the game system, enough though many had a “20 people at a time” policy the morning of Black Friday. So far, an estimated 7 million consoles have been sold since the release of the Nintendo Wii.

If you are still searching for a Nintendo Wii, check out the Nintendo Wii Tracker to find the system online.

One of the first games we bought for our Nintendo Wii after we got Wii Fit was Carnival Games.  I’ve always been a sucker for a midway, so I was anxious to try this out.

I’ve read some bad reviews, but personally, I thought it was fun and it remains one of my favorite Nintendo Wii games.  There are 25 carnival games from which to choose.  You can select from areas such as Fortune Way, which features games such as alley ball (where you roll the bowling ball down the alley and try to get it to stay in the valley of two curved pieces of steel), test your strength (which I suck at), and hoops.  Claw Alley features something I love – a claw game or crane game as we always called it.  This is where you maneuver the claw to grasp a prize.  Yes, the prizes are a bit cheesy – you can trade up smaller prizes for larger prizes, just like on a real midway.
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I was eagerly awaiting the release of Ninetendo’s Wii Fit. Little did I know that my husband had pre-ordered it from Wal-Mart, so we didn’t have the long wait that some people experienced in order to get it. When it arrived, I was very excited and must admit that I still love it.

What I love most about it is that it makes me responsible for activity and weight loss. The only time I ever really committed to losing weight and followed through on it was when I signed up with an online service. Each week, I had to log my weight, so if I gained, not only did I know, but I had to tell my mentor. While it is easy for me to write off weight gain to stress or illness, when I have to tell someone else, I take a closer look and realize I was probably just lazy with my diet or exercise.

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