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Wii Fit and women leave wake of destruction

10:12 AM on 06.16.2008, Dale North 18 comments

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I don't know what you think of when you imagine Wii Fit gaming, but I've always pictured a obese woman in ill-fitting sports wear, jumping up and down on a plastic board that can barely take her weight. She steps on the cat's tail, knocks over a vase from her quake-causing stomps, and eventually the home's foundation begins to crack. The camera pans to the rest of the family, all in a unison facepalm.

The picture that the Telegraph paints isn't too far off from mine. The say that women working out on Nintendo's newest sensation has caused £20 million ($39.3 million USD) of damage to their living rooms.

According to research conducted by women-only insurer Sheila's Wheels, a fifth of Brittish women have admitted to having Wii Fit related acccidents in their living rooms. These ladies confessed to causing an average of £6.55 worth of damage, which naturally equates to  £20.1 million in damage.

As many as 86 percent of the women polled already have Wii Fit or were planning on getting it soon. Their study also shows that the average living room now contains just 21sq ft of free space. No wonder! These numbers add up to mass destruction.

Have you ever broke anything other than a controller while gaming? 


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A Humble Mr Perfect's Avatar
A Humble Mr Perfect at 06/16/2008 10:23
Ha HA! Casual misogyny.
dragfindel's Avatar
dragfindel at 06/16/2008 10:24
@The-Excel
by not losing weight?
SyntaxError's Avatar
SyntaxError at 06/16/2008 10:24
It's official: the Wii is a WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION!!!!
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Alexradl at 06/16/2008 10:25
Rest easy, they won't be playing it a week (maybe 2) from now. I mean it's...Wii Fit.
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F Whipple at 06/16/2008 10:28
This makes my day
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Mushman at 06/16/2008 10:30
@Dale North, no to be a correcting arsehole, but are you sure that first estimate is correct, isn't the pound worth around 2 dollars at the mo, so should'nt that first estimate
be $40 millon dollars, as 20 mill pounds would double?
Sorry If i'm wrong :)
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nicojay at 06/16/2008 10:42
I remember when I got Eyetoy Kinetic I cleared a large space to be able to move/spaz around in yet forgot about the light above me. I'd intended on fitting a ceiling flush light shade so trashing it didn't bother me greatly. I can understand these womens misfortunes.
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Brahms at 06/16/2008 10:46
So is the install base for the Wii Fit mostly women? Because I was always under the impression that women have a better center of balance than men do.
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crankypants at 06/16/2008 11:33
A particularly uncoordinated friend of my wife's was over Wii Bowling one night and ended up going forehead first into our TV.

If only I had video! I'd be worth over a million theoretical internet dollars!
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Cowzilla3 at 06/16/2008 11:41
I've been Wii Fitting for a while and the only thing broken is my pride.
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Yuphrum at 06/16/2008 11:51
Jesus, when I saw that telegraph title I had an image of this huge obese woman that fell off the wiiboard, crashed through a load bearing wall which caused half of her house to collapse onto her neighbours house that created a domino effect all throughout the city she was living in.

Damn my imagination is crazy...
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matt247 at 06/16/2008 12:27
So, is Nintendo going to include some sort of strap for the balance board? The Wii may be the cheapest console but when you factor in the living room destruction it may be the most expensive.
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Syn at 06/16/2008 15:30
Jesus christ, people never cease to amaze me with their idiocy. Just the fact that they blew their money on a plastic board that tells you that you're fat is baffling. And even then why would you be whipping around so fast that you might damage your shit, and even THEN I'm sure there are instructions that come with it telling you to keep so far from things, but I guess that requires people to read, how silly of me.

And those figures only count people that admitted they made a fool of themselves.
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DinnertimeNinja at 06/16/2008 17:36
Who the hell did they poll? Women carrying a Wii-fit box in a game store? There's no way in hell 86% represents any sort of realistic segment of the female population.

I doubt 86% of women could tell you what a "wii fit" is.
OhVerisimilitude's Avatar
OhVerisimilitude at 06/17/2008 06:38
I broke a desk drawer while trying to get the caladbolg in FFX.
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Aoi at 06/18/2008 03:06
OhVerisimilitude

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

There's also a grease mark on my parents' ceiling where I invoked a portal to Hell on those seagulls.

More relevantly, they should make a step-action Cooking Mama game that hooks up to real appliances. See the insurers cry then!
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