An image taken from a GameStop internal price list has been making the rounds revealing the price of Wii Fit to be $89.99. GameStop is also asking for $10 deposit on the game. All signs point to this being true, but until Nintendo confirms this, it's Rumortoid for now.
I actually had a lot of fun when I played Wii Fit during GDC so I know I will eventually get this but $90 sounds way too much. Especially since the game debuted in Japan for around $70. One would think that the game would become cheaper after all this time. Unless they went ahead and designed a newer model of the Balance Board for the American audience. You know, because everyone here is obese.
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8:01 PM on 03.24.2008
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Still, it doesn't seem like that would add to the cost that much. They probably just think that we're bigger suckers than the Japanese.
Also, the game debuted in Japan for about $80.
"Whhhhhhhyyyy its the supreme faux loosing weight propaganda for Americans! it is the Wii Knee Roller! Now instead of doing just boring old push ups (that cost nothing!) now you can Riiiiiiiiiiick Roooooooollll all the way for only $99.99!"
(+tax not included, and no you wont loose weight)
We'll buy the Balance Board and not use it.
I bought the E-Reader for christ sake. I don't like the price point but fact remains, I'll probably pony it up for god knows why and they'll never put another thing out for it.
£70 = $139.16
So consider yourselves lucky! so much for getting it a month before the US, if us Brits want it then we got to save up doing that month head start before we can even buy the damn thing!
You know, the $20 difference probably accounts for having to enforce the board so it can handle all the obese folks of America. The Japanese are much smaller in general, so the board probably needed to be strengthened a bit.
ha, fat chance. People will be seing this as the next Wii Sports.
Me, I'm not buying this. I'd rather buy 2 games for the price of this 1.
Hmm maybe they will be a ton on ebay 5 days after it comes out.
Hopefully, someone will think of something clever to do with this peripheral though. How about a snowboarding game?
Careful marketing, and high availability will guarantee this will sell enough to give the more serious gamers another ulcer.
*Goes into fetal position, cries self to sleep*
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Yeah, except Rock band comes with 3 peripherals and a bad-ass game. Besides all of that, how can anyone justify and compare a glorified balance board with any music game peripheral period?
That and you'll be EXTREMELY lucky to get any other game made for this thing that isn't a novelty. Don't ever buy a peripheral for anything other than the game it was made for or else you will get burned.
Oh man. This shit boggles the mind. Fucking Wii Fit boggles the mind.
Ajay, you would be right if Wii Fit was actually a game and if Rock Band actually came with 3 peripherals. "
Good point, actually had to buy the other bits, forgot about that. I'm not saying (EVER REMOTELY) that Wii Fit seems like it will be as amazingly fun as Rock Band. It looks like a pretty fun game, mixed with a 'just distract you enough' excerize regimen. However, I do find the vitriol spouted at it a little amusing though. Looks fun to me as I've said; then again I don't pretend to not like Wii Sports anymore either. All the 'hardkore gamerz' loved that shit until grandma and little sis got in on the action...
Did you miss the last few years with Brain Age with its edutainment style and progress tracking was huge? Can you not see this is just the phys ed class version and is likely to be just as huge?
It's not rocket science, seriously. Obviously Nintendo has literally blown some hardcore gamer minds..because they aren't functioning. :)
Next you'll be surprised at well-crafted but often uninspired Nintendo franchise entries selling well...jfc.
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Oh I'm not surprised that this thing will sell millions upon billions. I just don't see the appeal. If you like it, whatever. that doesn't make me cooler than you, but holy shit. I just don't understand why. Whay on earth would you pay $90 for this thing. $50 maybe! But $90?!!
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