Wii Health Pack

At the end of this year Nintendo should be releasing Wii Health Pack. The game was announced last year in september and since then we haven’t been heard much about the title. We know that Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of franchises such as Mario, Donkey Kong, and The Legend of Zelda is working on the game. Mister Miyamoto said that he had the idea on the same single sheet of piper like Wii Sports and Wii Play. Back then Nintendo stated the goal of the game as “create an application which is useful for everyday healthcare”, something that would fit perfect in the Wii Weight Loss Program and the game could help training other parts of your body.

According to rumors, the game will give you a complete workout schedule and it would automatically send biomedic data to hospitals via a new Wii Channel. The game should be relevant for every family member and Nintendo thinks that they could be able to create a situation where all family members are willing to turn on their Wii-console every day. The game was given a 2007 release for Japan, but the game should be coming out in the US and Europe as well.

President of Nintendo Saturo Iwata asks developer Eguchi about Wii Health Pack:

Iwata: Did it include the “Health Pack” idea that Miyamoto-san has been talking about a lot recently?
Eguchi: Yes, it did. He was trying to push the idea of Wii as a tool at the heart of the living room, connecting families, so that idea was clearly written down. From the “Health Pack” through to further ways to connect families, it looked like he’d emptied all of the jumbled contents of his head straight onto the paper! (laughs) But, in all seriousness, he wrote everything we needed to do on that paper. He roughly divided all of the trial software we had into categories for sports games or games for all the family. Those family-oriented games went on to be included in Wii Play. He also wrote that we should sell those games bundled with the Wii Remote, as well as explaining the way that the calendar on the Message Board would work in conjunction with these games. This was a function aimed at getting people to switch their Wii on every day. When people play Wii Sports or Wii Play, their results are automatically posted on the calendar in the Message Board. Miyamoto-san had broadly outlined functions like this in the plan he wrote down. That single sheet of paper turned out to be the actual starting line for the development of Wii Sports.

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