Weight Loss with Wii Fitness Games and Nutrisystem

Okay, if you’re reading this blog chances are you already have a Wii (and like me, paid through the nose for it). But for a limited time, Best Buy has one of the best deals I’ve seen yet. Perfect if you want to set up another Wii in another room (mayhaps a special Wii connected to that old TV you’re not using anymore in your home gym), or if you have a friend who’s coming to your house and always saying that he or she “has got to get one of these”

The promotion is a free $30 Gift Card with Select Wii Consoles.. “Select Wii Consoles” means a black or white Wii with Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, and a Wii Remote Plus (a Wii-mote the size of the original Wii-mote, but with the MotionPlus gyroscopes built in already). It’s on sale for $149.99, plus after the $30 gift card, you basically get it for $120. Not a bad deal. But hurry, there’s no indication of how long this deal will last!

This year’s big news at the 2001 E3 conference was the development of the sequel to the Wii, the Wii U. But there were a number of Wii Fitness games announced for release later this year.

• Champion Jockey: G1 Jockey & Gallop Racer
• Dance Dance Revolution II
• Just Dance 3
• My Body Coach 2
• Nickelodeon Dance
• Rhythm Heaven
• UFC Personal Trainer
• Zumba Fitness 2

You’ll notice there are a lot of “2s” and “3s” (in fact, since the last version of Dance Dance Revolution was a “reboot”, this version is really Dance Dance Revolution 6–and probably won’t be too much different from 2!). It’s a shame that game developers are getting more and more skittish about developing brand new innovative titles; on the other hand, hopefully in the re-releases of popular titles like Just Dance and Zumba Fitness the publishers are working hard on correcting a lot of the inaccuracies and flaws of those games, rather than just rushing out another version to try to cash in on us users.

I’ll, of course, post details and links to purchase as they become available on the list of upcoming Wii Fitness Games.  And if you hear of other upcoming games not on the list, please leave a comment, and I’ll be sure to add it to my list of games to review!

At the E3 Expo yesterday, Nintendo finally made the biggest announcement since they announced six years ago that they were releasing a new sequel to the Nintendo Gamecube called the Wii. The new Wii is called the Wii U, and it’s going to look like this:

It looks a lot like the Wii, right? Happily, a lot will stay the same. The new Wii will be fully backwards compatible with all your current Wii games, as well as all your peripherals, from your Balance Board to your MotionPlus controllers.

There are differences of course. One is that the Wii will finally have HD output, meaning you will be able to play high definition games that are on par with the graphics on the Playstation 3 or Xbox 360.

The biggest innovation is going to be the introduction of a brand new kind of controller.

The new controller is 16.2″ x 6.2″. Aside from being a controller with buttons you can use to play games, the new controller contains a microphone, gyroscope, accelerometer, rumble, camera, and stylus. It also has a touch-screen LCD display you can use to play games if the TV is taken, or which in some games will serve as a second display.

The burning question for us on Nutwiisystem, of course, is whether Nintendo will continue to improve its motion controls. Microsoft now has a number of impressive Xbox Fitness games, and even Sony has a few games which can be used for PS3 Fitness.  Question is, as the Wii U  innovate new things like the tablet controller, will it continue to innovate the Wii Remote to make it more precise and accurate? Hopefully we’ll know in the coming months.

To be alerted when the Nintendo Wii U is ready for ordering, visit Amazon.com.