Not surprising one bit. Did anyone doubt this would be a hit?

I thought of a exercise oriented game a long time ago when watching some annoying diet ads. Miyamoto beat me to it T_T
Good job Mr Miyamoto and enjoy your money, but please don't milk THIS PARTICULAR FRANCHISE (Everyone loves money, so this is just me shouting)

eBay hoarders make a big difference.

That's hilarious.
This seems somewhat outrageous...
at least I got mine.

Well, looks like it'll probably be a while before I am able to to get one these, unless physical storefronts have a number of them. Doubtful, but possible.

While people were sitting there waiting for the Wii Fit pre-orders to be available, I went and jogged a 5k.
Now who seems foolish? HUH? HUH?

Aww...I still won't get to play first day now.
Now I won't be able to know my BMI.
Oh wait, here's a site:
[www.nhlbisupport.com]

I hope it's not accurate though, because 20% body fat doesn't sound healthy.

wow, just wow o_o

*cues creation of Wii fit prints money gif*

Much of the people buying it are doing so to make money on ebay.

(In Shang Tsung voice)

"IT HAS BEGUNNNNNNNN!"

I have sworn off the Amazon preorder since they screwed up the Guitar Hero III Wii preorders. I did a preorder for it about two months ahead of time (birthday money), and when the release date came around they pushed the shipping date out another month. I grabbed a copy at the WalMart down the street (which had a bunch on the shelf) and cancelled my Amazon order. Seems pretty worthless to preorder through them if you ask me.

@Palladium: just remember that bmi does not take into account muscle mass, which weighs more than fat. I'm a weight lifter and according to my bmi i'm an absolute porker, but in reality i'm in fairly good shape.

has anyone ele noticed that ton of people buy Wii crap from Amazon? Wii games are always on the top even if many of them average below the top 5 all around best sellers.

pre-ordered my from amazon 5 days ago after being on the fence about it.... glad i did!

@Palladium: As far as I know, using height + weight only provides a rough estimate based on averages. It's unreasonable to think just because someone is putting on pounds, that a fixed x% has to be fat, which that site tends to imply.

Same goes for GameStop preorders. Our initial shipment has been sold through to reserves. Anyone reserving after April 30th won't get until the second shipment (which right now is scheduled for May 23rd.) Who knows how long until we get word about bumping procrastinators to a third, fourth, or fifth shipment. You're one crazy son of a bitch, Wii Fit.

whoa. this is gonna be big. I thought it would sell well, but sold out of it already?

I go to the gym, but I'm going to buy this as a means of a supplement to my healthy routine. It'll come in handy those rainy dull days when I don't want to leave the house.

Pre-ordered on Amazon last year and got WiiFit for 69.99, free shipping and all.

@Xcite79: That's because the real gamers go to the store to buy their games.

No, but really, Wii Fit looks awesome. My mom will probably see it in the newspaper, call me up, and demand that I buy it for her. I'll grumble a little bit, but begin to emit a faint glow of accomplishment.

Hypothetically.

I played it a bit at GDC...pretty fun. I'll probably get one eventually, but I rarely buy stuff on the launch date (I haven't even picked up Mario Kart Wii yet.)

@Aethyr: Real Gamers either go to the store to buy... OR they get so lazy to leave their houses for anything but work and school that Ebay and amazon.com are the best bets..

I go to store 45% of the time. Amazon 20% ebay 20%. The rest... just pop up in my house and I don't know how.

WIi Fit does look fun. I know it doesn't make you lose weight, but it's fun nonetheless. Wasn't gaming always about having fun before it became who has the most fun out of a game? Aww... the good ole days

Ok im in Game in the UK 4 days before it came out and on a whim I ask the guy in Game if the had any preorders left he looked at me as if I was insane but he checked and there were some left. Come release I walk in with my pre-order and there are people just walking in and buying copies. Now this isn't me saying nobody really wanted it, it's me saying Game had tons of copies to sell. They just had a massive stack in each window.

@ph15h needs a nu job:
Lazy?! You talk like
we don't have lives or something.
Not worth the hassle.

Yup, the money-printing machine has started up and it isn't going to stop riolling any time soon.

They must've just ran out recently. I pre-ordered last week. Either Wednesday or Thursday, can't remember which.

I don't personally like the Wii much. But I totally get why people like it. I have fun at friends' house with a few drinks and a bunch of people.

This I don't get. At all. I just don't see how millions of copies are being preordered based on what I've seen. I know I'm not the audience but it's crazy. Exercise peripheral 40% of the console's price, advertised in conjunction with pushups, running in place and yoga?

You look at what Nintendo is doing with moving product at an insane pace and you wonder how the Gamecube years ever happened.

It's obvious why it's sold out. I'm pretty sure it's not that popular since not even smash bros brawl sold out before release. It's Nintendo's evilly brilliant strategy of holding back supply to increase demand. They've been doing it with the Wii for the last 2 years and they'll do it with this too. What's sad are the people who actually believe that Nintendo can't produce more than the demand for the Wii.

For the last time, the Wii Fit is a balance board, and nothing more. You will not lose weight using it, you will not get significant exercise using it, but it can be used to improve balance and abdominal muscle tone. Still, I bet that most of the people buying it will use it for about a month, and then it will be relegated a dusty corner in the gaming room. I will wait until it is available off-the-shelf at Fry's, so that I can return it immediately if it ends up being the tragic disappointment that the Wii itself has become.

@Palladium:

BMI is pretty worthless. It's treated as a very inaccurate rough measurement of body fat.

It was pretty much the same here in the UK, pretty much everywhere was sold out or pre-ordered out. I was lucky as I managed to just walk into a Game store and pick one up from what looked like a display, but was actually 25 units just sitting there.

Good times.

@ryanfrost:

True that. I go to the gym a lot and according to my BMI I'm obese. I had a health check just last week at school and the girl doing the tests assured me that I shouldn't worry about my BMI results because people who lift weights are around the 30 mark for their BMI. I wasn't worried of course, but I just let her continue to do her spiel about the test results and whatnot even though I already most of what she was telling me.

Lol the bmi is such an epic fail,if only they could detect Body Fat percentage

I think the true shame is that the us army etc use the BMI as comparative tool,something completely idiotic,im almost 16, 6 ft something and 230 pounds,and i can outrun most people i know cause no one else works out around here,yet my BMI is something like 32 which would make it impossible for me to join the army or something if i ever wanted too without losing all my muscle and all my fat.

@Silenthillnight: Of course, although it's surprising Nintendo are quite so horrifically incompetent. Given their excellent strategy to keep supply below demand has worked so well in the US, it's really disgraceful that they are somehow managing to (mostly) meet demand elsewhere in the world. Since their only goal is to keep supply below demand, surely it should be easy to hold back a few European or Japanese consoles, but oh no - Nintendo can't even manage that. What a situation! The phrase 'piss-up' and 'brewery' seems to apply.

(Or else there isn't a conspiracy, simply a company that prefers to err on the side of undersupply rather than stock-piled-in-warehouses when planning production many months in advance. Nah, surely not...)

As for Wii Fit, surely most people expect it to sell more than SSBB? It already has in Japan, although admittedly that was a given.

@bornonce: For the last time, please stop making definitive commnents about a game you have never played.

From what I've read, the game involves some mild to moderate aerobic exercise, which (a) certainly does count as exercise, and (b) means that if you play it every day and you don't eat more, you will lose weight. It also means that (c) if you want to be muscle-bound idiot then forget this game, it won't help you, you need to keep visiting the gym.

However, I've never played the game either, so I'm not going to claim that the above is a 'for the last time' definitive comment.

Hmm, and just yesterday I got a $25 Gift Certificate to Amazon. Now what kind of Wii game am I gonna get?

Maybe Blast Works?

@NeoAkira: Agreed that BMI is worthless. At 6'6" (198cm) I'm supposed to weight around 180 pounds (80kg) according to BMI... I did weight that one when I had drained my body from unhealthy amounts of water due to type 1 diabetes... and I looked thin compared to anorectics. The sad ting is that the old swedish tradition of taking your length past the first meter in centimeters as a guideline for your weight in kilograms work better (in my case, 98cm past one meter means I should weight about 98kg which is round my target weight).

Is Wii Fit even a game?

plenty of exercise boards were in existence decades ago, they just did have nintendo fanboys to do the free advertisement for them.