Wii Fit Systems

According to the NPD Group, an industry group which monitors monthly and yearly North American software sales, Nintendo's popular Wii Fit exercise program is about to become the second-best-selling 'videogame' since 2000.

Since being released last April, the $89 game which comes with the Wii Balance Board has skyrocketed up the sales charts, and has stayed there regularly since. "The appeal of Wii Fit is so broad and its ability to keep attracting new users every month has really played out time and time again," says Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo's executive vice president of sales and marketing. But we already knew that!

Wii Fit sales have beaten even the top Wii games such as Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Super Mario Galaxy. They've even beaten Madden games or Guitar Hero games. It's even bigger than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Halo 1, 2 or 3. The success if likely because the Wii Fit attracts both old and new gamers. Even for people who think of themselves as "non-gamers" can play, and do.

Making Wii Fit a blockbuster is the fact that approximately 7.9 million copies of the game have been sold in North America through August 2009, according to NPD. Mario Kart Wii is ranked at number five with 6.7 million units sold, so Nintendo is grabbing positions with its Wii offerings generally.

It's true though that Wii Fit sales, which were strong in January, began to drop off each month since. Will sales resume for the holidays? Well, the game still sells well, and it's likely that September sales will keep Wii Fit on the charts. Especially with the recent release of Wii Fit Plus on October 4.

And guess what - the top seller since 2000? It's Wii Play with sales of over 11 millions units. Next is the Vitality Sensor - with release dates and details still to come. This sensor will monitor your heart rate and tailor your experience to your mood. Nintendo just keep innovating - with more for the Wii Fit and Wii console coming soon.

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	Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board List Price: $99.99 Sale Price: $79.99 You save: $20.00 (20%)
	Description Wii Fit attracted millions of new players to the world of video games. Now Wii Fit Plus offers a range of new features and enhancements to help players reinvigorate their workouts, along with exercises and balance games designed to keep them fun...

The new game, Wii Fit Plus, is now out in the US! Wii Fit Plus adds and improves some of the original Wii Fit games by making things like yoga and strength training more enhanced. Here are some of the new features:

Users can input the amount of time they want to spend on their workouts or select an area for personal improvement, and Wii Fit Plus will suggest a number of diverse activities for them.
For the first time, users can mix and match which strength and yoga activities they prefer on a given day. The seamless exercise flows make it easier than ever for users to maintain their daily workout routines.
Users might be asked to run an obstacle course across a series of platforms, zoom across a beach on a Segway x2 Personal Transporter or flap their arms to help their hilarious chicken-suited characters aim for targets.
The range of games and customization options will make players want to play every day. They¿ll be having so much fun that their workouts will seem to fly by in no time at all.

Wii Fit Plus is the follow up to the highly sucessful Wii Fit, adding all new game modes and features.

The game has 15 new balance modes and 6 new strength training games. There's even a new addition which is the calorimeter, which measures your daily progress as you exercise.

As with the original, the game will also come bundled with a balance board - just in case you don’t have one by now. More details over at Eurogamer.

As we've been checking around online for availability of the Wii Fit, it's clear it's getting more in demand each day. We expect the Wii fit to definitely be harder to find in stores the closer we get to Christmas, the way the original Wii Console was last year, where there were hardly any to be found, and the prices jumped sky high. Among the online retailers we're scoping out for you, there are definitely deals out there if you buy right now. We recommend some of the big online retail stores which have good prices for the Wii Fit at a discount, and also check out the Wii Fit at the online auction siteswhere you can bid for the best price.

If you want a Wii Fit for Christmas, don't wait too long to see if prices come down - they won't! As demand goes up so will the prices, especially right before Christmas. Start to comparison shop now to avoid disappointment. Check the prices for Wii Fit online - and get the Wii Fit in time to put under the tree!