Video Games for Exercise

At the end of May,  Nintendo is releasing the “Wii Fit” for video gamers. The Wii Fit attempts to make video gaming a physical sport and asserts that one can rid one’s house of useless exercise equipment. The interface is a flat, squat platform that looks much like a scale. Standing on the Wii Fit, the gamer is led through a series of dance and balance exercises. It even seems to run through several yoga postures.

The slickly produced marketing video trailer for the Wii Fit runs the gamut of types: the lone yoga student following the video prompt to take a pose; an awkward teenage girl working to improve her balance; a buff twentysomething doing pushups; and a family of four comparing their ability to step onto and off of the Wii Fit.

This is the trailer for it: