11 Comments | Posted by Stephen Totilo on 5/9/08 at 12:51 pm.
I was told that Nintendo would be delivering “Wii Fit” to my office yesterday. They did. And the above video shows what happened.Should I be embarrassed?
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Filed Under: Publicity Stunts We Fell For, Taking One For The Team, Top Entries, wii fit, Video, wii
May 9th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Yes.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
No. What would have been embarrassing would be if you were unable to do any of the exercises. Good show, man!
May 9th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
This is possibly the best video I’ve seen this year. Better than any GTA IV video. Totilo’s expression in the beginning is priceless. And that makes me think that Wii Fit is the first Wii Game that men will feel really embarassed to play in front of other people. Not because of anything, it’s just… it’s in our genes, I think =p
But you did well, I hope other blogs show their videos too
May 9th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
heeheehee
May 9th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I tell you what’s embarrassing - those track suits
May 9th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
I tell you what’s embarrassing.
The fact that this xenophobic site won’t let anyone outside of the all holy, all mighty U.S of A can’t see this video.
Racist bastards.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
@Leigh:
Totilo’s a karate-chopping fool. You ain’t know? Once I saw him kick Phil Harrison clear though a convention center wall. As the dust cleared, Totilo looked back over his shoulder and said, “Now, you’re Home, big guy.”
Sometimes I remember things different.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
@Lard - Racist?
May 9th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
I didn’t like Nintendo’s PR approach here, it’s like “exercise and have fun”. For MTV it should have been the opposite: “play games and then exercise”. Because it really can go both ways and the latter is the way to sell Wii Fit to a gamer, not the other way around. Some people will approach it as exercise first and then discover the gaming aspect, but a lot of people won’t, so I think it’s foolish to do exercising first with these gamers which is the case here. By doing things this way they’ll only get half of an apple when they very well could have all of it.
By doing nothing, you might be perpetuating some of the gamer/non-gamer separation here Nintendo, I know what it is you want and I thought you were working harder on it by now, but guess not.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
I’m with Lard on this one… well, except for the racist part. And I would like to think it’s not the fault of anyone at Multiplayer. Just the same, it sucks. What gives?
May 10th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
lol @ 3:30
yeah man, feel embarrassed