EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women - Kotaku Comments

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

Cola82 — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:56:11 MDT

@Ajh: It makes me happy to know that. =D

Cola82

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

nenet — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:05:08 MDT

But... but... It has buttons! And it glows! It makes my little female brain hurt! T_T

Better stick with the 360, then.

nenet

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

goddessakasha — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:48:53 MDT

OMG!!!! I can do it by myself???

Beth: We have a great section of...do it yourself.

Andy: Do you like to..."do it yourself"?

goddessakasha

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

Majorasblaze — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:21:36 MDT

Hey it's the 50's!

Majorasblaze

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

iwanttobeasleep — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:20:51 MDT

Fuck you, EA. What a bunch of sexist bastards.

iwanttobeasleep

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kathyl — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:43:16 MDT

it's the first console she's ever liked because she can do things herself

Screw you, Peter Moore. Not only are you delusional about what the typical woman's day is like, but you apparently think we're a half-step ahead of being a complete electronics moron, as well.

Way to talk down to your potential customers, jerk. One more game on my "do not buy" list.

kathyl

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infinit Loop — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:26:52 MDT

is that Selma Blair?

infinit Loop

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

EmerilLIVE — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:21:19 MDT

This is so not good, i'm just glad my Mom hasn't started playing the Wii. We had to get rid of our NES because she couldn't stop playing Super Mario Bros. 3 and didn't get any sleep. Oh the horrors of my childhood.

EmerilLIVE

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

DugDawg — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:03:00 MDT

@Mr. Fap☆Fap!:

Good 'ol Mr. Fap Fap. Can always rely on him to put the naughty stuff in perspective.

DugDawg

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Mr. Fap☆Fap! — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:00:52 MDT

"the kids have gone to school, she's got 45 minutes on her own, the Wii is there, it's the first console she's ever liked because she can do things herself."

Usually that's when the hot little milf pulls out the ol' vibrator and...does things herself.

Mr. Fap☆Fap!

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

EmeraldDragon — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:59:28 MDT

And how is "board Women" not covered by Wii Fit?

EmeraldDragon

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

KM91 — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:01:39 MDT

It's ingenius.

KM91

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

enigma89 — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:54:41 MDT

You know what else they have for bored women? Horny cable guys. And plumbers. And pool boys. And pizza men. And field workers. And son's best friends.

enigma89

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

Billkwando — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:41:52 MDT

Housewife: I'm bored

Wii: Shake for me girl, I wanna be your backdoor man!

Yep, I see the potential for a whole lotta love here.

Billkwando

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Slatz_Grobnik — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:34:27 MDT

Clearly, all those homemakers will leap at the chance to stop laying about the couch, watching their soaps and eating bon bons for the chance to engage in a lighthearted electronic fitness regime simple enough for even a housewife to understand!

Or, put more abruptly: Hey, Moore! The fifties called, and want their stereotypes back!

Slatz_Grobnik

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Ajh — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:04:07 MDT

@Cola82: Don't need to get on the feminist troll bit. Everyone here realizes that there's something terribly wrong with the statement there.

I had 5th graders at work discussing the game industry with more accuracy than this person apparently sees it....

Ajh

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aldo_14 — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:03:59 MDT

@phicaluk:
Peter Moore?

aldo_14

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

Snake726 — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:11:42 MDT

It sucks how women can't "do things" themselves on other consoles.

Wait a second, WTF?

Snake726

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

phicaluk — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:10:11 MDT

Well, now I know who to blame if I get home tonight and my dinner isn't on the table.

phicaluk

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

Cola82 — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:28:07 MDT

Do I need to do my feminist troll bit here? It seems most of you already know that most women in America work (and that it's highly unusual if they don't). We all have huge debts, and families are expensive. If she has kids, she's probably got a job, too.

Blegh. I was never interested to begin with.

Love the graphic, by the way.

Cola82

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Lets-game — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:19:45 MDT

that girl on the pic is hot.

Lets-game

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photoboy — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:11:29 MDT

@Replica23: Hey, I like playing Virtual Yard Work simulator!

photoboy

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thejakeman: probably disagrees with you — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:08:22 MDT

@CountingConflict: lololol, except the feminist part. bitch should get a job!

thejakeman: probably disagrees with you

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mphz — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:08:09 MDT

@Fyren: It took you this long to realize that EA has no integrity? They are the Borg of the corporate world, for God's sake. And Peter Moore is the new Borg Queen.

mphz

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CountingConflict — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:05:36 MDT

Don't be irrational Luke. I'm sure the Wii Fit board can easily fit within the confines of the kitchen. They just need a minigame that relates to its target demographic. Something that measures a woman's ability to stay on her feet after working ten hours, because her husband is too lazy to get off the couch and make his own goddamn dinner.

CountingConflict

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LittleBigPlaneteer — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:59:20 MDT

@PatMan33:

Ah, so I'm not alone in thinking that!

Pheww

LittleBigPlaneteer

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LittleBigPlaneteer — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:58:55 MDT

I'm not a perv, but that quote sounds like an idea for a female masturbation game.

LittleBigPlaneteer

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

UmeShoryu — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:58:27 MDT

@Replica23: At least it's better than "doing what you could do in a video game in real life". Like say kill cops and hijack cars.

UmeShoryu

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

PatMan33 — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:52:19 MDT

Part of that sounded like the beginning of a piece of erotic literature... and that was before they mentioned the Wii.

PatMan33

EA Sports Making Wii Fit For Bored Women

Replica23 — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:43:25 MDT

I love how the Wii has become, "hey look I can do what I could do in real life in a video game!" Except without meeting new people and getting out of the house. The saddest part is people are buying into it.

Replica23

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Fyren — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:42:59 MDT

I just can't buy EA's words on it's integrity anymore.

Sometimes, I really do want to genuinely believe EA is really trying to ease the mum's and the baby boomers into the videogame medium.

But it awfully sounds like " How can we cash in?"

Games?, forget it. Why don't you have Stop and Shop integrated with the Wii for a live update of general groceries/sales/ and a virtual basket. That will be an excellent way to save that 45 minutes and some fun.

Fyren

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thejakeman: probably disagrees with you — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:42:25 MDT

i dont think that "it's the first console she's ever liked because she can do things herself." is very accurate. i think an edit to "it's the first console she's ever liked because she doesn't feel socially ostracized for using it" is a bit better.

thejakeman: probably disagrees with you