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THQ Bring Cheerleading To The Wii Balance Board
Posted by Luke Plunkett at 2:44 PM on March 6, 2008
If losing weight balance training isn't your thing, and you find the idea of skiing fundamentally abhorrent, THQ might have a Wii Balance Boarding alternative for you: All-Star Cheerleading, a game they've got in development for the Wii. THQ boss Brian Farrell, speaking today at the Morgan Stanley Tech Conference, says it's "going right after girls", but I think he's underestimating the number of 20-something guys who own a copy of Bring It On.

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ThatGuyOverThere
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@Erwin: In my world, a tag like that would get used a LOT.
ThatGuyOverThere
Shimmergeek
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
Is it wrong that I really want it?
Cheerleading sounds less sedate than the Balance Board and I LOVE Bring it On >.>
Shimmergeek
yashichi8bit
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@bigman88zz: Your my flavor...of the week.
yashichi8bit
Fenris Wolf
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@gusiskirby: Maybe you should click the link in the article. Namco Bandai is releasing We Ski (a.k.a. Family Ski).
And that's on top of the snowboarding and ski jumping mini-games already in Wii Fit.
Fenris Wolf
Mr.SithNinja
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@mikeluisortega: No. Shovelware will dominate the Wii for all eternity.
Mr.SithNinja
King Seafoam
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
Nintendo jus' bitch smacked everyone and said their fat!
Oh, it's been Broughten....
King Seafoam
Americo
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@Luke Plunkett: You never cease to amaze me.
@ph15h: The first one is acceptable. The other three...? Not so much. Hot tears of shame for you.
Americo
SuedeGopher
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
Heh - my buddies and I saw Bring it On in the theaters and once it came out on video - we all made purchases. Frickin love that movie.
SuedeGopher
Jazhuis
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@Erwin: As much as humanly possible.
Jazhuis
Kazzahdrane
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
I sincerely hope that new tag up there sees frequent use here at Kotaku.
Kazzahdrane
nullterm
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
Somewhere out there, there's an EA producer salivating... cheerleader mini-game for Madden and NBA. It'll give the girlfriends something todo during play stoppages.
nullterm
Spiderbait
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@MCWHAMMER: I agree as well.
*sigh* If only this post was maximum risky...
Spiderbait
Nawara_Ven
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
Clearly cheer-balancing is a much better use of this peripheral than skateboarding/surfing, hover-boarding, a Super Monkeyball variant, or an amusing platformer about a drunken, stumbling robot.
Nawara_Ven
ph15h
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@Americo: :( I'm sad to admit I own 1-4... don't know why. But I do.
ph15h
Sven8705
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@Erwin: Hopefully a lot more.
Sven8705
NeoAkira
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@cooler_d00d:
except that's it's THQ...
I hope other developers start to make games using the balance board as well, just not games like this.
NeoAkira
Virgil Tibbs
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
Eliza Dushku FTW. She was good in True Lies.
Virgil Tibbs
Luke Plunkett
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@Americo: Picking on them? I AM one of them.
Luke Plunkett
Wubbytoes
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
My kid brother will be pretty pumped about this. He loves cheerleading for some reason.
Wubbytoes
Trowble (XBL/PSN)
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
Luke, you have to change your line of work, Eliza likes pizza deliverymen.
As for the THQ's target demographic, they're better off aiming at a much younger female audience. Like the DS kind. Cheerleaders are all about bringin' it, nowadays.
Trowble (XBL/PSN)
Americo
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
No picking on the guys that own Bring It On, Luke. Everyone needs a sassy teen movie in the movie collections.
Americo
zymase
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
Twentysomething males who own copies of Bring It On made the purchase for all the wrong reasons....
zymase
rhinestonedarling
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@rhinestonedarling: Or maybe I'm just overthinking this.
rhinestonedarling
rhinestonedarling
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
This will take me right back to cheering in high school. We used to employ balance boards all the time. WAIT, NO WE DIDN'T. Wouldn't it make more sense to somehow use the Wiimote and Nunchuk as, like, pom-poms?
rhinestonedarling
jackal888
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
"Its all ready been broughten!"
jackal888
ShaggE
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@Aflack: Likes slushies: Oh dear jeebus, I wasn't aware. Thank gods I stopped watching after skimming through part 1.
ShaggE
Magic Emperor Anima
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@dexterr: A girl broke/twisted her leg while playing with a Wii?
Why does my mind make that sound so bad?
Magic Emperor Anima
bigman88zz
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
be aggressive! b-e aggressive! b-e a-g-g....
ok, ill stop now
bigman88zz
Aflack: Likes slushies
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@ShaggE: I would agree except the recent stars have all been underage and I would just feel like a creep. What happened to the days when a 20 year old would play a highschool aged kid?
Aflack: Likes slushies
dexterr
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
didn't a girl break her leg or twisted it while playing the wii?
dexterr
meandering_drivel
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
vagina exercise? seems like a good idea.
meandering_drivel
ShaggE
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@Aflack: Likes slushies: They are all worthy of Oscars, if you turn the sound off. :P
ShaggE
Kyle81
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@TOCATL: Yea it's all gone to the Wii
Kyle81
Gigith
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
Do you have to be stupid to play the game well or just to buy the game in the first place?
Gigith
TOCATL
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@mikeluisortega: DId PS2 shovelware ever ended?...
TOCATL
Lezard
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
I'm a twenty-something guy, but if I want to get my cheerleading fix, I'll stick with Ouendan and Ouendan 2, thank you.
Lezard
okenny :)
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@BOMxAgonyxScenex:
What's an Eliza Dukshu?
okenny :)
Aflack: Likes slushies
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
The first bring it on was actually a good movie.The rest, eh not so much.
Aflack: Likes slushies
mikeluisortega
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
Will Wii shovel ware ever stop?
mikeluisortega
Erwin
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
An "I love you Eliza Dushku" tag? How much use will that get?
Erwin
Magic Emperor Anima
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
She's the only reason to own Bring It On, I guess.
>_>
Magic Emperor Anima
MCWHAMMER
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
@BOMxAgonyxScenex: Agreed. Please post pictures of her daily, Kotaku dudes.
MCWHAMMER
BOMxAgonyxScenex
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
Eliza Dushku is hotness
BOMxAgonyxScenex
gusiskirby
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
They should totally make a snowboarding game to go with the balance board.
gusiskirby
cooler_d00d
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
thanks a lot, nintendo.
-_-
cooler_d00d
Degreeless
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
Isn't there a round in 'Whose Line is it Anyway?' where they have to do as many things as possible with a useless prop?
Degreeless
Ashkihyena
Posted 10:24 PM 19/3/08
LOL I plan on getting the board and Wii Fit and that, but I think I'll pass here.
Ashkihyena