The Fastest Selling Game In Australia Is…

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@GtheMVP99: Oh yeah, we all forgot that there's "casual games" and "real games"...

Anyway you slice it IT IS A GAME, you want to call it a casual game, fine, but there's the magic word at the end of that sentence again... what is it? GAME

@vantesaur: Dude god of war, halo, mgs4, re5 and others got LOTS of replayability compared to this piece of crap. There's like higher level of difficulties for extra materials.

As for wii fit? yea, u're SUPPOSEDLY getting slimmer. But most people know this is bullshit! wii fit doesnt help u get fit. Hell even the nintendo people claim it's still better to go out there and do somethin than relyin on this crap.

I'm just saying, a lot of people were FOOLED into buying this crap. And coz of stuff like this nintendo makes crappy shitty games like wii-music. Hell, i wouldnt be surprised if they make like wii-muscle-builder or something in the future.

DAS

@Marlor:

In America (as with most places) people in cities are, on average, than people in the suburbs or the countryside. Your theory on obesity seems implausible.

I have a quick question.

What is the point in not writing wii fit in the title, when the tag used for the news clearly state it's about wii fit?
(and killing the whole purpose of not writing wii fit in the title in the first place)

sydderal

@conditionals: But things are starting to look better for the australians! 520,000 of them are already $150 lighter!

@Neer'mo:

By some studies, Australians are the world's fattest people.

This is undoubtedly linked to the fact that Australia is one of the world's most urbanised countries. Only small city-states are more urbanised.

The US has a larger proportion of its population living in rural areas, which tends to bring down the overall obesity rate.

I'm sure if you compared city dwellers in the US, UK and Australia, you would find similar rates of obesity.

@KesMonkey:

Oceania is a regional grouping. One with no real agreed definition, and one that is being less and less used as Australia (the country) aligns itself as part of Asia in geopolitical and economic spheres.

On the other hand, Australia is indeed a continent... the world's smallest.

If the whole continental shelf is included, New Guinea would be included as part of the "Australian" continent.

@DAS: And most people don't put down 95% of their games after a month? Like God of War for example.

vantesaur

@conditionals: It's the fattest continent on the planet IN THE UNIVERSE!

wilbot

@mitch_93:
I think you will find it is much, much worse

Peter Hodges

Thing is, like many other buyers, they just buy this shit and put it down after a month. Seriously, it's all coz of stupid 'better health' crap that does no shit to people's health. And the buyer itself doesn't give a shit, they're just buying it coz it was the rave. It wasn't long before all of them realized how much of shitty product wii fit is.

This is how bad gaming market is. If lots and lots of people are buying shitty product like this, imagine if sony and microsoft takes the dip and only make shitty health game like this instead of god of war or halo.

DAS

You're dramatic reveal didn't work with Wii Fit was the tag.

Danny Champlin

@NicolasCage:

It already has its category, "casual game".

GtheMVP99

@ReconToaster.: How many times must we go through this:

Wii Fit is a game, because like all other games, you use a peripheral to control a representative avatar on screen to achieve set objectives. In other words, the developer has set scenarios for you to have fun in a designed, pre-determined way.

Wii Music is not a game, because unlike a game, it lacks an objective and is merely a tool designed to allow a user to create their own experience. It is a toy.

Just because Wii Fit claims to have more in common with exercise equipment does not deny it the status of being a mini-game collection, which falls under the category of a game, complete with rules, rewarding of skill, competitive edge, etc.

@JleeLink: Being clinically obese and being subjectively obese are two different things entirely. If you put a random sampling of the US next to Australia, there would be a noticeable visual divide. The US has a lot more cases of extreme obesity and would likely "appear" to be a fatter nation. A better way to say it would be that the USA has a greater percentage of fit people than Australia.
The statistics aren't exactly fair for both countries anyway, when a group like the middle-age to elderly cause the percentage to skyrocket.

@ReconToaster.: Medium - a channel or system of communication, information, or entertainment.

By your usage of the word "medium", they would technically still be using the same medium; video.

Wii Fit is still a game any way you slice it. In this generation we are seeing that video games have more potential outside of entertainment; they can be informal and educational. It's really nothing to be frustrated about, at all.

Atomsk88

@Neer'mo: Heres some proof:

[www.news.com.au]

JleeLink

@conditionals: Surely you are mistaken? That cannot possibly be true. Haven't you been to the United States? Sources, please!

Neer'mo

@KesMonkey: Ah yes, thank you.

From Wikipedia: "Australasia is a region of Oceania: New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean."

So...most of it? I'm not crazy guys I swear :(

@AusGamer: ??? Why?

Prathik

@Mister Jack is Giving Out Telltale Discounts!: My thoughts exactly

Muppsatan

Australia {20 May, 2009} - Escape to paradise with the second instalment of Wii Sportsâ„¢ - Wii Sports Resortâ„¢ - available from 23 July 2009. Wii Sports Resort includes new sports and a more precise way to play, with
each Wii Sports Resort packaged with a single Wii MotionPlusâ„¢ accessory.

Available from 11 June 2009, the new Wii MotionPlus accessory easily connects to the Wii Remote and gives players new levels of precision and performance when used with specially designed games such as Wii Sports Resort.

The beach themed Wii Sports Resort takes the fun and intuitive controls of the original Wii Sports to the next level with a new set of entertaining and physically immersive activities. Players can cruise on a water scooter, duel with swords, toss flying discs to a cute Mii-like dog and much more, and all with the deep control enhancements of Wii MotionPlus.

Wii MotionPlus tracks players' movements in finer detail and with greater accuracy than ever before. With Wii MotionPlus, even the slightest twist of the wrist or turn of the body is replicated exactly on the television screen, which allows users to become even more immersed in Wii game play.

Discover a new way to play with Wii Sports Resort and Wii MotionPlus.

Wii Sports Resort AU SRP $99.95 / NZ SRP $129.00 (includes Wii MotionPlus)

Wii MotionPlus AU SRP $29.95 / NZ SRP $39.00

New Zealand price is based on current exchange rate

*Wii MotionPlus is also compatible with Virtual Tennis 2009 (SEGA), Grand Slam Tennis (EA) and Tiger Wood PGA Tour 10 (EA)

Via Nintendo Australia

@Komrade Kayce:

It's the same distinction that you find between a Bill Nye educational video, and a feature length film. Are they the same medium? no. They simply utilize the same methods.

ReconToaster.

@Soyerzzz: Not as bad as 1 in every 5 people in Japan owning a DS.

mitch_93

Hmm...Wii wake??

@KesMonkey: Isn't it? A quick google leads to different answers.

KesMonkey

@Ladi: Oceania is the continent you're looking for...

KesMonkey

@Mister Jack is Giving Out Telltale Discounts!: yeah, I would've thought it as one of the dumber ones but not the fattest one.

kitsuneconundrum

@conditionals: Australia is the fattest continent? Really? I had always thought...Australia? REALLY?

Mister Jack is Giving Out Telltale Discounts!

@Ash735:

What are you talking about.

I'm pretty sure I wasn't working out on that board.

I'm fairly sure I wasn't getting an education.

And I'm almost positive I wasn't just passively watching entertainment happen before me.

In fact, for the balance exercises like tightrope and ski-jumping, its almost like I was... like I was... playing something? Like a... wait... wheres that word...

game?

@Ladi:

Thats a joke, right? Ha... ha ha?

Wii fit: Helping fat Australians to really see what's down under.

I still think Wii Fit should be excluded from any "GAMING" records as to me and many others I know, it's not a real game!

@conditionals: Isn't Australia part of the continent Australasia?

Thats one in 40 people who own Wii fit In Australia, Damn.

Yet, we're the fattest continent on the planet.

I know that 'on the planet' was redundant, but it made the fatness sound even fatter.

@LedRush: And your theory on obesity seems incomplete.

@KesMonkey: I like Australasia better.