{"id":96,"date":"2007-10-10T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themediumtech.com\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/10\/10\/nintendo-to-launch-wii-fit-game\/"},"modified":"2012-05-17T22:51:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T22:51:28","slug":"nintendo-to-launch-wii-fit-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo to launch Wii Fit game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml'><a href='http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&amp;storyid=2007-10-10T092022Z_01_TKV002915_RTRUKOC_0_US-NINTENDO-WIIFIT.xml'>Nintendo to launch Wii Fit game | Tech&amp;Sci | Technology | Reuters.com<\/a>  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nintendo Co Ltd said on Wednesday it would start selling its &#8220;Wii Fit&#8221; home fitness game in Japan in time for the critical year-end shopping season, sending its shares to a record high.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s announcement comes just a day after Sony Corp said it would cut the price of its PlayStation 3 by 10 percent in Japan and launch a new, lower-priced PS3 model, to battle Nintendo&#8217;s dominance.<\/p>\n<p>The new game, which goes on sale on December 1 for 8,800 yen ($75), features a pressure-sensing mat called the &#8220;Wii Balance Board&#8221;, which looks like a set of bathroom scales and can sense when a person moves and leans, enabling players to &#8220;head&#8221; virtual soccer balls and experience ski jumping on a TV screen.<\/p>\n<p>The board can also be used for such activities as yoga and aerobics.<\/p>\n<p>The new software is likely to be the next major sales driver for Nintendo&#8217;s Wii game console after initial demand was stirred by popularity of &#8220;Wii Sports&#8221; software, which lets gamers play a virtual tennis match in the living room, analysts have said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo to launch Wii Fit game | Tech&amp;Sci | Technology | Reuters.com Nintendo Co Ltd said on Wednesday it would start selling its &#8220;Wii Fit&#8221; home fitness game in Japan in time for the critical year-end shopping season, sending its shares to a record high. Nintendo&#8217;s announcement comes just a day after Sony Corp said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tofi.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}