Archive for October, 2007

Nintendo of Japan launched the official Wii Fit site and added some screens of the [tag]Wii[/tag] Push Up Trainer mode. In this new [tag]Wii Fit[/tag] minigame your goal is to do push ups on the Wii Balance Board to stay with the marker in the green zone of the meter. It’s great that [tag]Nintendo[/tag] puts a push up training mode in the game since not many people know how to do push up exercises properly.

[tag]Nintendo[/tag] of Japan recently announced that the Wii Balance Board, the special Wii Fit controller, will allow people up to 300 pounds (136 kg). This could be a problem for certain people who want to use the [tag]Wii Fit[/tag] game and [tag]Wii Balance Board[/tag] to lose weight, but [tag]Nintendo[/tag] said they may be making a different Balance Board for other markets.

[tag]Nintendo[/tag] did a Fall 2007 Press Conference with some demonstrations of Wii Fit and the Wii Balance Board. They showed some new footage of the Soccer and Ski Jump minigames of [tag]Wii Fit[/tag] and released some new info.

[tag]Nintendo[/tag] has released a few new screenshots of Wii Fit with more of the same stuff we’ve seen on older screens of [tag]Wii Fit[/tag]. Famitsu did a hands-on with the game and they really felt the muscle training after a while! The reporter says that he really had the feeling he was working out.

Daily Mail did some investigation on the healthy aspects of the [tag]Nintendo[/tag] Wii and use some of the recent studies dat prove that the Wii can help stroke victims recover. Many doctors have discovered that videogames, and especially the games for Wii, help patients rewire the brain after it has been damaged by a blood clot. [tag]Wii[/tag] games are the best games to play to recover since most of these games involve physical movements.

German clinicians are working on methods to recover injured soldiers by letting them play with the [tag]Nintendo[/tag] Wii. American experts call the Wii a fun and cheap form of therapy, and Abbott Northwestern Hospital Minneapolis researchers are experimenting on patients who find conventional exercises too tedious. Jerry Pope, aged 77 and extennis player, suffered a stroke in June and ended up in the hospital for 13 days and then he discovered the [tag]Wii[/tag] that allowed him to play virtual tennis. Matthew White, the occupational therapist who was looking after Jerry, said that his timing, arm movements and reaction improved significantly thanks to Wii Tennis.

Source: Daily Mail