Wii Fit
Nintendo sold 369,603 Wii Fit Accessories in July
Based on NDP sales numbers Nintendo had an outstanding month again in the United States. You would think people spend their time outside during Summer. Instead Americans bought 369,603 Wii Fit systems to apparently loose those pounds.
Nintendo managed to sell 555,000 Wii units and 608,000 DS units leaving the competition in the console and handheld gaming system market far behind.
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Posted on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:35:13 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Nintendo Wii Fit Review
Our review partner got around to testing the Wii Fit accessory for the Nintendo Wii.
Quote from the review: "Exercise-oriented video games aren't new, but Wii Fit is certainly the most technically advanced one yet. Fun games like snowboarding, Hula Hoop, and tightrope keep it from being tedious.
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Posted on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Weak Dollar Reason for Wii and Wii Fit Shortage
The LA Times ran a story yesterday about the fact that the Wii Fit is sold out in the United States. The Wii fitness accessory is as hard to get as a Wii console. In that article analyst Michael Pachter is quoted saying that Nintendo shipped 4 times more Wii Fit systems to Europe because of the strong Euro.
I mentioned back in March already that the current 3rd party price of the Wii represents the Wii price in Euro. Nintendo is just making tons more money in Europe than selling stuff for weak Dollars in the United States.
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Posted on Sun, 1 Jun 2008 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Weekly Top 10: Netflix Player, Wii Fit, Rolly
Nintendo launched Wii
Fit this week. Sony launches the weird
Rolly Music gadget
in the United States. Of course
3G iPhone rumors
still ran rampant this week. The biggest buzz this week though was generated by a
little box built by Roku, the
Netflix Player.
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Posted on Sun, 25 May 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Nintendo Wii Fit launches Today
Nintendo is launching Wii Fit today. Wii Fit is available today exclusively at the Nintendo World store in New York, and will be at retail stores across the country May 21.
To celebrate the launch of Wii Fit, Nintendo is holding an interactive release party today for the public in the southwest corner of New York’s Central Park, near the Merchants’ Gate.
As reported the Wii Fit is already in short supply. Most online stores stopped taking pre-orders in the last weeks. I just checked Wal-mart online, and the Wii Fit is back in stock and you even get still a $10 Gift Card when you pre-order Wii Fit.
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Posted on Mon, 19 May 2008 07:39:45 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Wii Fit Out of Stock
In Mid-April we reported that the Wii Fit fitness accessory and game for the Nintendo Wii will be in short supply. Wii Fit has not even started shipping yet, but as far as I can see all major online retailers have stopped taking pre-orders.
Wal-mart, Amazon, Gamestop are just some examples of stores that mark the Wii Fit as out of stock.
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Posted on Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Wii Fit Reviews
Wii Fit will ship on May 21st. The demand is so high that online stores stopped taking pre-orders. We pulled together a couple of Wii Fit reviews for you to get an understanding on how good Wii Fit really is.
IGN says: "Ultimately an exercise package and if you don’t want to get fit, then Wii Fit’s obviously a complete waste of money and time."
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Posted on Sun, 11 May 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Wii Fit with Bonus $10 Online Gift Card on Wal-mart.com
The Wii Fit fitness accessory and software for the Nintendo Wii is getting a lot of attention and is poised to sell extremely well. Wal-mart has a special offer for Wii Fit if you pre-order it before May 11th.
You get a $10 Wal-mart.com gift card right away if you pre-order Wii Fit now at Wal-mart online. Wii Fit ships on May 21st and the price is $89.74.
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Posted on Fri, 2 May 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Walmart.com using Wii Fit to boost Mom's Day Sales
By Nicole Maestri
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forget the flowers and candy -- Nintendo Co Ltd's highly
anticipated "Wii Fit" video game will debut in the U.S. later this month, and
Wal-Mart Stores Inc's online division is trying to persuade shoppers to order
the game as "a perfect gift" for Mother's Day.
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Posted on Thu, 1 May 2008 23:31:52 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Wii Fit and Mario Kart for Wii dominate Video Game Sales Chart
Wii Fit is currently the top selling item on the Amazon bestseller in Video Games list followed by the Mario Kart Wii and the Wii wheel accessory on the 3rd spot.
Wii Fit does not even ship for almost another month. The fitness pad and software will start shipping on May 21st for $89.99. As reported earlier Mario Kart Wii is shipping today.
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Posted on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Wii Fit to be in short Supply
Nintendo will start shipping the Wii Fit starting May 21st. Amazon.com has already put a purchase limit policy in place for the Wii Fit arguing that there shortages of this product across the U.S.
Amazon only allows three Wii Fit accessories per household.
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Posted on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Wii Fit Release to be Turning Point of ongoing Wii Shortage?
The Nintendo Wii is still a hard find in the United States. There seems to be no Wii supply problem elsewhere, just in the U.S.
Wired reports that a Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst said this week that Nintendo plans the largest marketing campaign in the companies history to promote Wii Fit. Along with the campaign Nintendo is supposed to increase the monthly Wii supply by 150,000 consoles.
The Wii Fit release is on May 19th. Comments made by Gamestop this week put a big question mark on the analyst statements. Gamestop sees the Wii supply shortage continues for at least another 6 months.
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Posted on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Wii Fit for the Nintendo Wii ships
The Wii Fit fitness system for the Nintendo Wii is shipping in Japan and Play-Asia offers it to the rest of the world for $189.90.
So if you want to get a head start on the Wii Fit, you can get the Japanese version now.
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Posted on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:24:56 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Nintendo to launch Wii Fit Game in Japan
CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd said on Wednesday it would start
selling its "Wii Fit" home fitness game in Japan in time for the critical
year-end shopping season, sending its shares to a record high.
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Posted on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:56:50 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Wii Fit not available this Holidays
Nintendo introduced Wii Fit at the E3 2007 last week - In my opinion the only highlight of that rather lame show. Nintendo did not give a release date for the Fit at the E3. Apparently Wii Fit will be available in 2008 an not for this fall's Holiday shopping season.
Video game retailer GameStop
has the Wii Fit listed with a release date of 1/1/2008, which is most likely wrong. The date just marks the first day of 2008. The listed price for the Wii Fit is $69.99.
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Posted on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
I4U Top Stories include PS3 Price-cut, PS3 Deal, Wii Fit and E3
This week the new E3 videogame trade-show took place in LA. There
have been tons of game
announcements
across all platforms that will be in stores this Holiday season. On the
hardware side the new
Sony PSP is worth mentioning. My highlight from E3 is though the
Wii Fit system.
Sony cut the price on the Sony PS3 early this week.
Amazon has a special deal
for the PS3 worth checking out. On Friday Sony announced the
Sony PS3 Starter Pack for
Europe.
More top stories on I4U NEWS from last week below:
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Posted on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Nintendo Wii Fit Video
Yesterday Nintendo announced the Wii Fit and the Wii Balance Board at the E3 2007. We have got now a video from Nintendo featuring the details of this cool new exercise system for the Nintendo Wii.
Watch the Wii Fit video now.
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Posted on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Nintendo announces Wii Fit at E3
Nintendo takes Wii Sports to the next level with Wii Fit.
Wii Fit is a sensor mat called the Wii Balance Board combined with exercise software. The Wii Fit mat measures your movements and senses if you are doing the exercises right.
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Posted on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:04:24 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
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