Coming Fall 2009. Bundled with the Wii Balance Board, or sold as seperate software.
Posts Tagged With 'WiiFit'
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E3: Your Shape camera counts calories, sees you faking those pushups
Looking for the new trend in video game technology? Look at cameras. Nintendo’s latest hand held revision, the DSi, has a camera. Microsoft hopes to change the industry with it’s 3D motion tracking “Natal” camera for the Xbox 360 – and fitness games? You guessed it: Camera.
According to Ubisoft, the fitness game market has seen more growth in the past year than any other genre of video games – and there is room for more. After dismissing the balance board as unnecessary in their E3 press conference, Ubisoft staff introduced Your Shape as the next big innovation in fitness video games – and they might be on to something.
Like Ubisoft’s last major fitness title, My Fitness Coach, Your Shape focuses on exercise routines that rely on your own motivation to get up and move rather than controller driven gameplay, creating a experience similar to an interactive exercise video than a video game. The gimmick however, is that Your Shape comes with a USB camera device.
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jOG – pedometer dependent gaming is here!
So, do you love running in place? Great, have I got the product for you! Presenting jOG for the Nintendo Wii. This little device goes somewhere between the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, and makes sure that the player character only moves when the player does.   The designers hope this will provide an athletic and immersive gaming experience.
Honestly though? It looks like a pedometer that keeps the nunchuk from working right. Continue on to check out some videos of this little device in action!
