Here’s a story that comes straight out of left field. We’ve heard of 2K Sports’ Don King Presents: Prizefighter, a boxing videogame that’ll be out this spring for the Xbox 360 and in September on the Wii and DS. In fact, you might remember the trailer that Nick posted yesterday. That was for the 360 version of the game; until today, we hadn’t heard anything about the Wii or DS versions.
But VideoGamer.com has now broken that silence with an intriguing report. Venom Games, the developer of Prizefighter, will include support in the game for the Wii Balance Board peripheral that comes with Wii Fit. Matthew Seymour, Executive Producer at 2K Europe, had this to say about the integration:
Myself and the developers love the Balance Board, and we’ll be utilising that not to fight, because that would be a little weird, but for the training games. So doing the jump rope training game, and push-ups and all of that kind of stuff, will all be nicely woven using the Balance Board.
Right now, I have a picture in my mind of an overweight gamer repeatedly jumping on the Board and smashing it to bits. Still, this opens up all kinds of new possibilities for the Wii Balance Board; as far as I’m aware, this is the first news of the peripheral being used for a game other than Wii Fit itself. All of a sudden, that $89.99 price tag doesn’t look so bad...
[Via VideoGamer — Thanks, Jonathan!]
[Update: DonWii has made note of my presumptuous idiocy. Namco has already put out We Ski, which uses the Balance Board, in Japan (it’s coming to America this spring). Also, THQ is developing All-Star Cheerleading, another Balance Board-compatible game. My bad.]
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I actually really like the idea. Props to 2k Sports for thinking a little outside the box.
its like opening a pack of double stuff oreos only to find carrots.
keep your exercise out of my sedentary lifestyle!
-actually this is really cool. be much cooler if it was used for bobbing and weaving.
Well I wont have it so I dont really care
Interesting... Just not $90 interesting.
great then the board won't be only used by my gf :-)
We Ski, coming out right next to WiiFit, supports the board.
EA and Namco also announced 2 Cheerleading games that support the board.
Wow, these were the types of uses for the balance board that I was looking forward to.
Not only that, but the post's picture just reminded me how much I adore Little Mac and badly want a new Punch-Out!! for the Wii... this may be a step in the right direction in regards to where they can take that franchise.
Integrate that into a BOSU Balance Trainer and then I'll consider it. Otherwise, I'm not paying $90 to jump on or push off of a piece of plastic.
You know what, after thinking about it for a bit, I'll get it, if it sells well enough we'll start seeing more and more games using, besides, i realized it could always be used for something indie on the PC.
God, not more balance board games. That's one Wii peripheral I have no desire to buy.