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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Possibly to be taken with a large grain of salt, there is a rumor today that the balance board to be shipped with the European and North American copies of Wii Fit will feature an LCD screen displaying your weight. In some ways it makes sense but aesthetically it might take away from the clean look of current model. Then again giving Nintendo’s track record of hardware decisions in this console generation If they did choose to do it i’m sure they would do it well.

It looks like we finally have a release date for Wii Fit in Europe & North America. Those of you living in North America will be getting your hands on that shiny balance board in April with Europeans having to wait until June. Well I guess those of you with new years resolutions ready and waiting to be put into action will have an excuse to put it off for that bit longer now!

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Nintendo Wii Fanboy is reporting that Wii Fit outsold the Nintendo DS in Japan last week. Wii Fit sold 108,000 units compared to the Nintendo DS’s 91,000. Although software and hardware are not directly comparible this is still no small feat given the outstanding sales figures that the DS has been producing week after week.

Here’s a breakdown of those numbers

Hardware:

• DS: 91,000
• Wii: 76,000
• PSP: 65,000
• PS3: 32,000
• PS2: 13,000
• Xbox 360: 4,400

Software:

1. Wii Fit (Wii) — 108,000 (1,114,000)
2. Mario & Sonic at the Olympics DS (DS) — 91,000
3. Mario Party DS (DS) — 38,000 (1,531,000)
4. Wii Sports (Wii) — 31,000 (2,664,000)
5. Wii Play (Wii) — 19,000 (2,139,000)
6. Monster Hunter Portable 2 (PSP) — 18,000 (1,569,000)
7. Professor Layton 2 (DS) — 17,000 (714,000)
8. Mario & Sonic at the Olympics (Wii) — 17,000 (474,000)
9. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) — 17,000 (844,000)
10. Mario Party 8 (Wii) — 15,000 (1,154,000)
11. Mario Kart DS (DS) — 14,000 (2,796,000)
12. Final Fantasy IV (DS) — 11,000 (559,000)
13. School Days LxH (PS2) — 11,000
14. Dragon Quest IV (DS) — 10,000 (1,150,000)
15. Professor Layton (DS) — 10,000 (813,000)
16. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) — 10,000 (5,0651,000)
17. Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS) — 10,000 (4,564,000)
18. Winning Eleven (PS2) — 9,600 (605,000)
19. Unreported
20. Rune Factory 2 (DS) — 8,800 (83,000)

Nintendo is set to increase the weight limit on its Wii balance board for its western release in Q2 of this year. The original balance board which is currently in use in Japan supports 300lbs but the “western edition” is to have that limit increased to 330lbs. Will a 30lbs increase be enough though? Or is it still going to exclude some of those that could benefit from the device.

It remains to be seen as to whether furthur changes will occur before Nintendo’s slated release date.

Here’s two more trailers for Wii Fit for your viewing pleasure. They show off some tightrope walking and skiiing along with demonstrating the bmi ( body mass index ) screen and and weight distribution on the balance board.

Here’s a few vids from to get you guys even more hyped for the Wii Fit release.

Some Hula Hoop Action

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