Nintendo Wii Fit: review and UK pre order
16 March 2008 | Category: Entertainment
The UK arrival of the Nintendo Wii Fit has been set for late April is here, and almost everywhere has sold out. If you find someone who’s got one, buy it straight away, as any new allocations will go in minutes. Don’t wait for discounts (why would anyone give them?) but despite the demand, do not be ripped off either. The normal price is £69.99 in the UK, or $89.99 MSRP in the USA. Be suspicious of anyone charging over the odds. It’s your money.
Here are links to the Wii Fit page at some of the biggest online retailers. Best of luck.
Wii Fit at Amazon UK
Wii Fit at Play.com
Wii Fit at Toys R Us UK
Meanwhile, if you want some early thoughts on the Wii Fit, here’s the Wii Fit review from The Times, and here’s a good piece from MTV about the engineering of the Wii Fit and the Balance Board and here’s another background article on the Wii Fit from Nintendo itself.
Personally, I can’t wait. My young son and I already spend a few minutes at the end of each day doing “calf-stretching” exercises, as we seem to have hereditary shortened calf muscle problems, and this simple task makes us both a lot more flexible (and less restless at night). So just as a replacement from the boring task of standing on an angled board, Wii Fit should be worth getting. I think it’ll be a lot of fun too though. Over a million sales in Japan can’t all be wrong.
UPDATE – our Wii Fit arrived today and it’s obsessively fun. Of course you can do some (most?) of the exercises without any of this equipment, but actually, it brings a whole new dimension to some of them. Take the “yoga” exercises, for example. A yoga teacher can look at you and make a fairly good assessment of your balance, but standing on the Wii Fit Board, the Wii can measure your balance far more precisely. And it does – there’s no hiding place! The jogging exercise doesn’t even use the Board – you put the Wiimote in your pocket and it records your movement like a pedometer. This is truly an imaginative and well-thought-out piece of kit.
Here’s a great Wii Fit review from someone who really didn’t want to like it!
Hey,
Just as you predicted there has already been a massive scramble for Wii Fit. Amazon, Tesco, Game & Play.com (in a single day) have all sold out their pre-release copies. Looks like the demand is going to be huge and Nintendo haven’t even ramped up the advertising yet!
Anyway, there are still a few shops with pre-release copies which allow you to pre-order, so unless you want to pay way over the top prices or wait an eternity, you’d better get your pre-order in pronto.
Got my Wii Fit today from my local Argos of all places!
Reserved this morning (release day) online and picked it up an hour later.
Everywhere else is sold out.
I pre-ordered my Wii Fit, the first week in March from Woolworths and received it tonight at 6pm… It’s so addictive! I love it SO much!!!
Ordered wii fit this morning off john lewis because i wasn’t able to pre-order. coming in a couple of days. Can’t wait
Hi.
I got my wii fit board today!
It’s brilliant!
excellent workout!
love everything about it.
my fav is the jogging ( which doesn’t even use the board! )
I was having so much fun using the wii fit board that when i looked at how long i’d been on it today i was shocked to find almost 4 hours had passed me by!
I’ll sleep good tonight and will look forward to tomorrow when i use it again.( legs permitting ) kinda sore now. lol
Superb product!
Buy it!
Got my Wii Fit from tesco on day of release.
Its ever so good, and will definately work with my regime to try and loose weight and get in shape. (Have already given up smoking).
The hula hoops and jogging really get you working and aching in all the right places. LOL
ONE DOWN SIDE: BOUGHT IT ON THE 25TH (used if for hour and half) ON THE 26TH (NEXT DAY) AFTER USING IT FOR ABOUT 15 MINUTES I HAD TO CHANGE THE BATTERIES……….
Gonna have to buy rechargable batteries at this rate!
Got mine yesterday, I’m hooked. Fantastic, soooo much fun.
Wii fit is fab – certainly cheaper and tons more fun than joining the gym! All the family were playing today – well done Nintendo – SCORE!!!
After using wii fit for a couple of days, and having very sore muscles :( realised they should have included warm up/cool down exercises (particularly for folk like me who haven’t exercised in years!)
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