I would say that Nintendo was pulling a fast one on Wii Fit owners this April Fool's Day, but their jokes are not that fast, really. A really fast one would have been a message screen that told you were were a Balance Board-breaking fat ass when you weighed in today. But instead they were nice about it in a don't sue us again kind of way.
The people at Kotaku found a couple of the April Fool's Day messages in Wii Fit. One said that the Balance Board was broken, but then quickly said "just joking." The other was really just a kind of warning that the system may be messing with you sometime today. I find that on days like this, it's better not to interact with anything, even a game.
Can this day be over?
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6:30 PM on 04.01.2009
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The most annoying part is that many game companies don't take the hint and continue to make real news on April 1, so you have to disbelieve everything you read and then it ends up being true.
The trick to not take everything so seiously on this day, just have fun.
Wasn't the NiGHTS sequal announced (in a rumor) on April Fools? The joke is the game was made!
Then it told me I was severly obese. What a dick.
That being said I totally agree that April Fools day on the internet should die.