US Mag States: Don't Buy Wii Fit

A Forbes article entitled 'The Truth About Wii Fit And Weight Loss' that certainly mentions Wii Fit but contains nothing about weight loss, advises consumers simply not to buy the game.

Shigeru Miyamoto has already stated that he doesn't, "think Wii Fit’s purpose is to make you fit; what it’s actually aiming to do is make you aware of your body".

The author of the piece goes further, Bonnie Ruberg, saying, "Still, it seems a little disingenuous for Nintendo to heavily market a fitness tool that's sitting in more than a million American living rooms collecting dust."

She is joined in her dismissal of the title by Brian Crecente of Kotaku. His take is even more brutal - although it casts a poor light into the health regimes of video games journalists. He states, "I have to keep reminding people, even though it's a videogame, it's still exercise. It might be fun a little bit, but it's work."

There is, however, some actual information buried in the piece. Apparently "Scott Owens, a professor of exercise science at the University of Mississippi, has started a six-month study to uncover whether placing Wii Fit in a home will actually improve a family's physical fitness."

We'll keep up with that.

Finally, the premise of the article - rather than being about 'the truth' of weight loss - is that people buy the game and then never use it. Have you bought Wii Fit? Do you still use it? Tell us in the Forum.