Wii Fit, the latest innovative game for the Wii, looks set to revolutionise the gaming community. Core Group today confirmed with El33tonline that Wii Fit will be flexing its muscles across South Africa on the 5th of May.

Wii Fit is currently only available in Japan, and despite the game hitting shelves on the 1st of December in the land of the rising sun it is still keeping up the pace against its competitors. Wii Fit sold a massive 261 226 copies in its first week on sale in Japan and has regularly topped the Japanese software charts since then. It still makes a regular appearance in the Top 10 software titles in Japan and this past week (for the period 31/3 – 6/4) it earned seventh place with 39 000 copies sold. What is also interesting to note is that Wii Fit’s life-to-date sales in Japan currently stand at 1.834 million copies and that the title took just seven weeks to reach one million sales in Japan.

Wii Fit will race onto European shelves on the 25th of April and will arrive on North American shores on the 19th of May. Kudos to Core for bringing it here hot on the heels of the European launch and before the US!

Core Group has yet to confirm the price of Wii Fit so stay tuned. The game is priced at £69.99 in the UK and 89.99 Euros across Europe.

Wii Balance Board

The game combines fitness with fun as the whole family can participate in daily exercises. Wii Fit comes bundled with the Wii Balance Board, a new accessory developed exclusively for the Wii. The Wii Balance Board is a pressure sensitive, wireless boards that gets placed on the floor in front of the TV. It senses a players weight as well as shift in balance in every direction so when you step on to it during activities, you can imitate on-screen movements. The Wii Balance Board will also be compatible with other titles in the future including Namco Bandai’s Family Ski.

Wii Fit was designed to increase player’s awareness of how important fitness is everyday. Increase it and make it easier at the same time. With Wii Fit you can track up to eight people’s progress as well as monitor their performance.

Four different training categories

Wii Fit includes four training categories: aerobic exercises, muscle workouts, yoga and balance games. These categories are aimed to develop your bodily balance control ability, help tone and condition muscles, burn fat in the body and help increase aerobic stamina. In addition there are more than 40 different activities within the training categories including Hula Hoop, Ski Jump, Press-Up Challenge, Rhythm Boxing, Rowing Squat and Lunge. There are even classic Yoga poses such as Half Moon, Tree and Crocodile Twist.

The game also features an on-screen fitness trainer who will change his or her verbal instructions depending on how well players perform the activity. Wii Fit combines an accessible and intuitive training programme with helpful tutorials and the Wii Fit Channel to help you on the way to a healthier lifestyle, but perhaps more importantly, to do all this having fun.