The latest wii controller is a full size bicycle!
The latest Nintendo Wii exercise game comes with its very own, full-size exercise bike packed right in. According to the gamers at Kotaku, you save the planet, cleaning up pollution by flying your bike over things.
The price of the bike it yet to be announced, but will be revealed before the bike’s launch in 2010.
According to Kotaku
Apparently there is an uptick in Wii related injuries… better be careful. From Techtree.com:
British Society for Surgery of the Hand and Leeds Teaching Hospital say that Wii-related injuries are on the rise.
Nintendo was lauded for its initiative in incorporating physically demanding actions into some of its games. Many sports games on the Wii require the gamer to mimic the actions shown in the game. For instance, while playing a golf game, the user needs to hold his Wii remote like he’s holding a club and he has to swing it to complete the shot.
Such gameplay, though innovative, has also given rise to a number of physical injuries, especially in those gamers who are not diligent with their exercising.
Two British institutions, British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) and Leeds Teaching Hospital say that Wii-related injuries are on the rise. The researchers at Leeds Teaching Hospital have also coined a term for these types of injuries, the “Wii Knee,” which occurs due to the excessive use of Wii.
A surgeon at BSSH claimed that they recently treated a patient who had fractured one of her bones while playing on her Wii.
The “Wii Knee” phenomenon is expected to rise after Christmas as it is one of the most sought after Christmas presents.
Here’s the verdict from a previously very skeptical Kotaku.com:
Let’s get this out of the way: Wii Fit does work. Why wouldn’t it? It’s based on time-trued exercises. Stuff like doing sit-ups, push-ups and jogging. Well, jogging in place. But, to what extend does it work? For the past month, I’ve used Wii Fit on nearly a daily basis. Wii Fit isn’t something you can review in 8 hours of play. You need weeks, months even! My Wii Fit workout was interrupted by two breaks: One for when my wife was sick (and I then got sick) and another when my wife was sick again (Nintendo, please make Wii Healthy, kthanxbai). Like with most things, results do vary from person to person. For me, some of it worked brilliantly. And some of it not.
“…when I started regularly going to the swimming hall, my weight dropped quite a bit, and it felt like my overall fitness had increased as well. I started thinking that getting fit could actually be fun.”
—Shigeru MiyamotoLast year, I began power walking. This writing job involves a great deal of sitting. And since I work at home, there’s not much impetus for me to leave the house. (Getting dressed is a challenge most days as well.) Back before I got married and I spent my time talking to semi-pretty women and getting in bar fights (no, really), I weighed in at a meek 130 pounds. Know: I’m 5 foot 11 inches. I was super model thin, and shopping at chic Japanese boutiques was no problem. Then I got married, decided to quit smoking two packs a day and get very, very fat. I jumped up to 177 pounds. Blame Mrs. Bashcraft’s delicious cooking or being able to down a half a bottle of sake. A big bottle. All of my super swank designer clothes were too small. I suffered a horrible embarrassment at a Paul Smith boutique, where I used to shop regularly, where none of their sizes could fit me. Hello fat American! But, as I approach thirty, the slow realization has set-in: We don’t live forever. (That, and you can buy big designer clothes in America.)
So, I started trying to take better care of myself. You know, take vitamins, stop drinking entire bottles of sake and power walking. Power walking was great. An excuse to get out of the house and away from my job. Escape. I live right next to a river, and it was great to get exercise as the evening sun was glistening on that brown, cloudy river. During that course, I dropped five or six pounds, felt better about life. Then winter hit, I got cold, and I got wrapped up with several big magazine features and writing a book. I became a hermit. Well, a bigger hermit. Too busy to get out in the fresh air, I wanted something that would let me stay in shape inside. Something like Wii Fit.
“You don’t join a company like Nintendo and expect to work on an accessory that can weigh players, do you? (laughs)”
— Satoru IwataBack when Wii Fit was introduced at E3 last year, we were pretty dumb founded. Nintendo’s made a ton of crazy peripherals, but those were gaming peripherals. This wasn’t. Nintendo planned on taking Wii Sports one step further. There was an instant appeal for the title for both gamers and casuals players. Here was something that could make us not tubby. Hooray! This isn’t the magic bullet that many gamers are looking for. If you want results, you’ll need to put in the time. During the course of my Wii Fitting, I ended up losing weight. Not much, but still. Likewise, Vinnk over at 4 Color Rebellion has dropped the pounds. He’s recorded his progress in-depth here, here and here. A must read if you are serious about losing weight. Thing is, I’m not exactly sure how much credit to give Wii Fit. Gaming-wise, it’s revolutionary, but exercise-wise? Go jogging everyday for thirty minutes. You’ll lose weight. Promise. And it’s totally free!
And it sounds so stupid. But weighing yourself everyday does make you aware of your own body. It is a bit like watching a kettle boil, though. You become aware of how your body weight changes during the course of the day, and that’s something so obvious that I hadn’t every really thought of it before. I noticed that I was eating less, because I knew pigging out would totally muck up my progress. Below is my weight chart for the past month. I started out at roughly 79 kilograms (174 pounds), which is almost overweight for someone of my height. (Ironically, that’s about where I ended up!) Even as I was doing Wii Fit on a regular basis, I noticed odd spikes up and down. I ballooned at one point, it seems, but then got that back down during my training. Since your weight changes during the day, when you weigh yourself seems to matter as much as, well, what you do. Oh, and that huge upwards spike? Mrs. Bashcraft thought it would be funny if she pressed her foot on the Balance Board while weighing myself (she didn’t know it was for work). Hilarious!
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