A few news sources are reporting that there has been a trend recently in the increase in female gamers. Although the majority of the hardcore gaming is still done by the typical male demographics, woman have surged in the casual gaming area.
The two main devices seeing more womanly affection is the Nintedo DS and the Wii. The large success of the Wii in female gaming can be attributed to games like Wii Fit.
The next version of Nintendo’s Wii Fit video game is called Wii Fit Plus.
It plans to help get your inshape by offering more exercises and proviing a easier why to motivate users to stick to their workout schedules.
There is only a little bit of information coming out from the 2009 E3 video game converage, but here’s what we have right now.
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After the smash success that the Wii Fit has had its no surprise that other game publishers will be hoping to get a little piece of the pie.
The most notable competitor is EA Sports Active, but there are also a few other rumors of competitors showing up soon.
At the 2009 E3 video game conference, Microsoft displayed a power new gaming method that let the users play without having to use and form of control named Project Natal. The Mirror has posted an article about why they believe that Natal will be better than Wii Fit.
Finally, Sega has announced their plans to release a Pilates centric game called Daisy Fuentes Pilates
Publishers have been eager to start making some money from the super popular Wii Fit crowd. Electronic Arts has their answer to the fitness video arena is EA Sports Active.
EA Sports Active attempts to appeal to the same demographic that has made Wii Fit and its balance board such a smash success, yet it also tries to differentiate itself in one crucial way.
In Wii Fit the fitness exercises took a more Eastern approach to them with training like yoga and balance-based exercises.
EA Sports Active on the other hand takes a more Western approach to fitness with more high energy exercises. Active tries to target women by developing a collection of activities for them and bringing in Oprah’s fitness guru on board to help develop and promote it.
The game comes equipped with some exercise gear to to use along with the game such as leg straps and resistance bands.
The new fitness video game will cost you $99 to get your fitness on.
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Nintendo has reached another milestone with the Wii. The revolutionary game system has reached that mark with lots of help from some of Nintendo’s in-house games such as Wii Sports and Wii Fit, the ultra-popular fitness game.
In hopes of making those Wii Fit workouts even better, Riiflex plans to begin selling their weighted dumbell attachments for your Wii remotes to help get those arms in shape.
The dumbells won’t begin shipping until summer, but the website is taking pre-orders.
The 2LB set will sell for $34.95 and the 4LB set will sell for $39.95.
Both come with discounts if you pre-order now.
Right as Nintendo’s Wii Fit came a video of a girl missing her pants doing the hula hoop training because a viral hit reaching over 8 million YouTube views. Apparently she now works for EA on their Wii Fit rival game, Sports Active.
While you might have paid a hefty price to acquire your Wii Fit video game and Balance Board, luckily other game makers have developed games to played with the balance board.
So here’s a handy list of video games that use your Wii Fit Balance Board so you can get some more use of it.
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Many different websites are reporting that shoppers this Friday were all clamoring for the Nintendo Fitness Game, Wii Fit.
The Wii Fit was one of Amazon’s most purchased items on the post Thankgivings Day Weekend and it was eBay’s most searched for item.
Read more about the Black Friday Madness.
Many retailers are expecting there to be a shortage of the popular Nintendo Fitness Video Game, Wii Fit.
The Wii Fit has been out on retail shelves for several months, but there is still a high demand for the fitness game.
Although Nintendo’s President Reggie Fils-Aime stating that there will be an ample supply for the Nintendo Wii Video Game Console, Gamestop’s CFO David Carlson isn’t so optomistic. He states in an interview that popular titles such as Wii Fit are likely to increase the demand for the console.
