Pretty brilliant marketing. "How do we sell more controllers and peripherals? Lets add `Family` to the title!"

PITwelve

And they say third parties can't make money on the Wii.
No, seriously. I'm predicting a million seller.
Also, it's nice that the toque accessory for Mii will get some use.

Torgen thinks AAA has lost all meaning

There is "Lift" mode. Woo hoo!.

One thumb up for the fun.

Can the Wii fit board determine the angle of your feet at the precise moment you jump off of the board?. How will you do tricks?.

Is "Pizza" considered a trick?

Id rather "sit" then hunched over looking like I am writing my name with my ass, in Korean.

fyren

Where's the Guncon support?

boopadoo

That actually looks pretty fun!

7ucky

Oh man - now I have to decide between Super Smash Bros: Brawl and Family Ski. Damn you, Japan! It would be easier to choose which child I wanted to live!

DefenderShip

They just never stop printing money. This will sell billions.

Krytha

Woot! Relatively obscure reference time.

That looked like a blatant rip-off of the Skiing Mini-Game in the original Ape Escape.

Kirbytheslayer: Supports a political party. Just not sure which one

Before watching this, the board accessory seemed stupid. However, that game actually looks like it would be a pretty good time. What do those boards cost?

ultimatepancakesensation

OK that looks fun.

tacodeluxe

I know what I'm doing the next time I want to go up north and ski.

"HEY MA! Why spend several thousands for a family trip when we can spend 40 for Family Ski!"

BUT question is. will it support snowballing? <3

Mr. Dark E

I will never be that happy.

Mavwick

@Torgen thinks AAA has lost all meaning: yeah, you probably have to do the skii pole motions to make yourself move, but I bet you still have to use the board to steer. though it's just wishful thinking, I'd rather it just have old-fashioned controls and no waggle. game still looks fun though, and I love the characters.

Five Element Ninja

Yeah this game looks pretty good!

Almost tempted to buy it.

Witzbold

That looks, to me, like incredible fun. Seriously, I'm not a skiing fan and not a big fan of sports simulation games, but that actually does look really cool.
...got to say, though, I wish the Miis looked more like the characters in that game and less like...well, like they do now.

Achenar

@Arahem: by yeti, you mean robot

thejakeman: Is unoriginal

@Arahem: Damn, you beat me to it!

..now I want a SkiFree Wii remake SO BAD.

Ashurahori

@PITwelve: Namco probably has little desire to sell Nintendo's peripherals.
@gaseous_snake: But how would you ski with them?
@Five Element Ninja: It showed them using just the wiimote and nunchaku. Presumably you motion approximately as you would ski poles.

Torgen thinks AAA has lost all meaning

I'm not even kidding: I want this so much. Please come to North America!

I mean, I would sell my family for this game.

gaseous_snake

@Arahem: Oh, you are a winner, sir. Damn I miss that game.

Maldron

But does it support an authentic devoured-by-yeti game mode?

Arahem

@DefenderShip: sort of a sophie's choice for games, yes?

thejakeman: Is unoriginal

that looks like fun actually. though I'd only play it if I didn't have to use the silly wii fit board.

Five Element Ninja

I've always wondered how I could get that same boring and frigid feeling of riding up a slow chair lift. I'll get the Wii-Fit board, this game, and open some windows. Shit that sounds like a good idea actually, I can save $50 each weekend!

MonkeyBiz

@Torgen thinks AAA has lost all meaning: But later clearly shows the board. Possibly there's options for either or both, depending on what you have? That would make sense.

Achenar

@Five Element Ninja: Watch it again. When the four people are lined up all skiing at the same time, you can see that the one on the right (from the camera's perspective) has his feet flat on the ground. Considering the balance board isn't sold separately yet, that would be the only way to do multiplayer anyways.

Torgen thinks AAA has lost all meaning

I have to confess to being somewhat enthused by this title. Normally I hate anything which tries to appeal too much to the casual market, but that does look pretty fun.

DimensionWarped

Now we just need EA to recognize, and start developing a new SSX.

Kirkpad

That actually looks like fun. Will the Wii fit board actually tear your ACL while racing between moguls? That's interactivity...

It'd be cool if you could control your arms separate i.e. use the nunchuck to control your left arm/pole and the remote for the right arm/pole. Doesn't look like it's quite that slick, though.

-o-

Wow, I never knew Miis could be so Moe....

Warll

@Torgen thinks AAA has lost all meaning: ah, interesting. well here's hoping. :)

Five Element Ninja

This seems pretty cool, let's just hope the Slalom isn't as broken as it was in SSX Blur.

Nisori

Actually, you don't need the balance board to play. You can apparently play without it but WITH the balance board it enhances your game play. (Can read Japanese)

orangewarp

Actually I might buy this game. D:

Witzbold

@Achenar: The balance board is only even mentioned for like 3 seconds? Unless I missed something, all the rest of the time they are just using the nunchuk and Wiimote. The balance board support is just some kind of nice extra.

I'd not make any assumptions about the control from these videos - they'll be faked up anyway. I mean, hopefully it will have a good control system, but on the average for Wii games, I wouldn't bet on it. Wait for reviews imo...

quen

Ummm..........

WHERE THE HELL ARE THE SNOWBOARDS?

lol. Kind of discriminative of them. Cause the Balance Board would work even better for a snowboard then skii's.

And you might not look as retarded when playing the game lol.

Kakkoister

@Maldron: [ski.ihoc.net] Merry christmas dood. :D

This video made me cry. I wish my family could get together and wave sticks around... ):

Furious_Liver

Nifty! I'd buy it. I'm all about games that my gf and I can both enjoy... this one looks right up her alley.

Dukeman330

Nice, I too think this game looks like fun and kind of hope Namco brings it stateside when Wii Fit comes out.

Tech question though ... The Wii has the ability to take in not only 4 wiimote/nunchuck signals but 4 wii fit boards all at the same time? Didnt know it could take in 8(+) signals.

icarusprime

@icarusprime: i was wondering about that too, can the wii support eight devices?

Onizuka-GTO

Well, it sure as hell looks better than Snowboard kids...not that that's saying much.

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