I’m going to refrain from sensationalizing this story too much, as the UK’s Daily Telegraph is reporting that women that work out in their living rooms have caused over £20 million worth of damage to their homes in the past year in a post titled Wii Fit women leave £20 million toll of destruction to living rooms.
That total is derived from in-home destruction over the past year due to “over-enthusiastic work-outs,” even though Wii Fit has only been available in the UK for about a month. It could be argued that the title of the article states that Wii Fit women, as in, the types of women who would play Wii Fit, have caused that much damage, not the Wii Fit explicitly. But then the very first paragraph of the article says,
It was meant to get the nation back in shape in the comfort of our own homes – but women working out on the Nintendo Wii Fit video game have helped cause £20 million of damage to their living rooms.
That makes it sound even more like the Wii Fit is to blame. So there are some clumsy women, yes, and of the 1,000 polled for this particular article “As many as 86 per cent” said that they already owned a Wii Fit or were planning to get one soon. Come on, which one is it? And what is “as many as 86 per cent” supposed to mean?
Anyway, apply those numbers to the entire UK population coupled with an average of “£6.55 worth of damage to their homes in the last year” and you get what seems like £20.1 million worth of damage caused by the Wii Fit (or women who own or might someday own the Wii Fit if you read the article closely).
Don’t blame Wii Fit, in other words. But just to be on the safe side, if you’ve caused damage in your home by working out in the past year, be careful. That Balance Board can be like an odd-shaped torpedo underneath the wrong pair of feet.
Its bull shit ‘news’ like that that makes Nintendo throw in those stupid warning before I get to play ANY game that uses the Wii Mote. People breaking their TV’s because they are stupid, people jumping around breaking crap, seriously, WTF. I’ve had my Wii since launch date and have yet to damage anything, including myself (my friend got overzealous, hilarity ensued ).
All those people that are doing damage to their homes are dumbass’. The game specifically tells you to play it in a space free of things you could bump into. These people also must have extremely bad balance, because not once have I moved so intensely that I fell off. Stupid bitches.
Bullshit. Nintendo’s getting blamed for a fat lady in UK getting ‘excited’ about working out and breaking her stuff. That’s why they have that little diagram with a guy hitting a potted plant and another dude at the beginning of every Wii game ever. Even games that use almost no motion controls at all, like Brawl or RE 4
The Wii fit has been out for about a month now, Where did the year worth of damage come from
This is stupid. Nintendo should’nt get blamed.
This is not Nintendo’s fault. It is human error that is causing all of the damage. They must read and listen to the rules carefully to protect their items and themselves.