64% of people have stopped using Wii Fit

[Dyne]

According to survey.. but who found this surprising?


Do you use Wii Fit faithfully everyday?
• 22 percent — I record my progress faithfully everyday
• 6 percent — Maybe once every two or three days
• 6 percent — Once a week
• 64 percent — Stopped using after purchase

http://kotaku.com/5022132/64-percent-of-those-polled-gave-up-wii-fit

[Vampyr]

I never thought it looked fun to begin with.

Buy DDR and actually enjoy yourself.

[Yoda9864]

I'm not surprised. Same thing happens with any diet/exercise program. People are all excited about it, start it, then get lazy/realize it won't make them lose 50 lbs over night and stop it.

[Jason1]

Do we play other games after we finish them?

This isnt suprising at all. In fact, I would say its expected.

[Perfect Stu]

Diet and exercise is the real fad.

[GameMaster]

This is pretty funny. I mean, Jason's point stands true. But just releasing those percentages is a real slap in the face to the marketers at Nintendo who made such a big deal about this 'game'.

Good to know all those 'balance pads' are now collecting dust or resting in garages.

[Yoda9864]

But Wii Fit isn't really a "game". You can't really beat it as far as I know.


And I can say that I play many of my games after I beat them.

[Dylflon]

I stopped but fully intend to start up again.

[KillerGremlin]

I would think virtual reality would get boring...instead of sitting in front of my TV, I'd rather go run or bike outside, go lift weights, swim, take a nice walk, and enjoy the outdoors. I sit in front of my monitor/TV enough, it's nice to take a break and go run. I love running at night, even without my music sometimes. It's very meditative, and the feeling transcends exercise. The feeling you get from running on the cold grass, while you gaze up at the heavens above and see the stars and the moon at their brightest, that is a sensation I would never trade for a virtual workout. Maybe Wii Fit has more potential in the inner city or Africa or something, where if you go on a midnight fun-run you might get shot. Ahh, the ironies of poverty.

[Vampyr]

Yeah, I have a very hard time believing that the Wii Fit will actually make you fit. Other than a mild bit of cardio, I don't see how it could.

If you really want to be fit, nothing is ever going to be as good as going to the gym and lifting some weights. Unless there is some kind of nuclear fallout, the world reverts to it's primal stages, and we have to start living in trees and running from saber-tooth tigers again.

*has idea for virtual workout program*

[magus113]

I can see some benefits of using Wii Fit after trying it out for about an hour but I don't really see the long-term physical benefit of it.

The same thing happened to me with Brain Age. The only thing that really kept me coming back to the Brain Age game are probably those addicting Sudoku puzzles.

Games that never end just don't seem to stick for me. The same thing happened with Animal Crossing, although it's fantastic, it just never ended.

[Professor S]

The problem with the Wii Fit is that they treated it like an excercise machine and not a game where you get excercise. That and there (SHOCK) isn't much in the way of software support for the peripheral.