Following on from yesterdays news on the Wii Fit Price in the states today the european prices have come to light. Nintendo has confirmed that the bundle which includes the balance board will be available in the UK for £69.99 and in the rest of europe at a price point of €89.99.

Its now only a matter of time before we have the opportunity to start flailing around like some crazy fools on our balance boards trying to keep our Mii on a tightrope

Toys R Us began accepting online pre-orders for Wii Fit this week at a price of $89.99. They list the release date as May 19th. Wii Fi has been available in Japan since December of last year and has sold over 1 million units. Nintendo are hoping to see the same success in Europe and North America.

There is an insightful interview over at wii.com in which Nintendo President Satoru Iwata talks with legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto about Wii Fit.

It seems that early in the development Miyamoto and his team considered the DS as a portible diary for recording food intake.

“We even thought about making it so that you could take your DS out with you and store data on what you ate. With health as part of the Wii catalogue, we also saw the subject of food ahead of u”

When talking about how they wanted Wii Fit to do things that the many fitness DVD’s out there couldn’t do Miyamoto commented

“Many DVDs related to exercise are already on the market, so when we started thinking about what couldn’t be done with DVD, we hit on the fact that we could check whether or not you were actually exercising. So we continued the experiments while using radio exercise music, and by measuring balance we found out we were able to do a lot of things quite accurately.”

“if you’re in the middle of exercising by standing on one leg, and lose your balance and put your foot down, they’ll tell you, “Did I see you put your foot down during the exercise?” You couldn’t do that on DVD.”

You can read more over at wii.com

In the name of not having to take ourselves too seriously we’ve added a wallpaper section to Wii Fit Guide. It’s just something that came about after some playing around with photoshop and seemed like it could be a bit of fun.

Anyways, to get the ball rolling, behold the first addition to Wii Fit wallpaper. Chuck Norris!

Vinnk, the owner of www.4colorrebellion.com is undertaking a Wii Fit experiment in order to try and lose weight for his upcoming wedding. As part of the experiment he will attempt to use Wii Fit every day for a minimum of 30 minutes doing a variety of different exercises. He is going to keep his diet as it currently is, 3 daily meals with snacks once or twice a day.

He is three days into the experiment and you can follow his progress here.

Wii Fit has been been given its official rating for its Australian release by the OFLC ( Office of Film and Literature Classification ). The title will be rated G, meaning that its for general consumption. Its pretty much what you would expect for a game like Wii Fit, if it had been rated anything else it would have been a bit of a shocker… or perhaps a rockstar like publicity stunt.

Wii Fit has earned its fourth week as the number one selling console game in Japan. Thats a total of 1,283,000 units sold since it was released back in December of last year. It’s going to be very interesting to see if it matches this level of success when it hits general release worldwide.

Here’s a full breakdown of the Top 10 selling console games for the week ending January 27th.

1. Wii Fit (Nintendo) – Wii

2. World Soccer Winning Eleven: Ubiquitous Evolution 2008 (Konami) – PSP

3. Lucky Star: Misasagi Sakura Gakuen Sakura Fuji Festival (Kadakawa Shoten) – PS2

4. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo) – Wii

5. Wii Sports (Nintendo) – Wii

6. Mario Party DS (Nintendo) – DS

7. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom) – PSP

8. Doraemon Baseball: Dramatic Stadium (Bandai Namco) – DS

9. Yggdra Union (Sting) – PSP

10. Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box (Level 5) – DS

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