Nov 24 2010 09:48 AM
Re: Holiday Gift Questions/Suggestions thread
it's one person at a time, at least it was. you can take turns in the games, with a slight break for recalibration.
wii fit comes with the balance board, which is all you need. but i don't know if there's support for multiple boards yet.
we got it about two years ago, and enjoyed playing with it for a while. then we got distracted by a race or two, and the attendant recovery, and then felt bad about stepping back on the thing only to be yelled at for how fat we'd gotten since the race. mmm, post-marathon gluttony. but i digress. about 6 months later, we decided, ok, lets pull this thing out again and use it.
and the balance board wouldn't work. we might've not had it in a good position for storage that may have messed up a sensor. i dunno. but it was like right after we'd had it for a year. and so there was no longer any kind of warranty protection on it. i meant to get it fixed, but never quite got around to it.
there was a then-grape-sized baby on the way at that point, and our wii usage has plummetted. we managed to get reasonably far in super mario brothers, much less far in lego harry potter, and are now most likely going to buy, but probably never play, epic mickey.
the balance games are fun, and the exercise things on there, while sometimes rather flawed, are still pretty good for motivating and the like. mrs.mm liked the yoga workouts a lot. i don't know too much about what games they may have come out with since it's introduction that would give it good staying power, but it's not wasting money if you get it.