Maybe that's indicative of Nintendo's base with the Wii? Sure, I love going to midnight premiers, grabbing games during a midnight launch, or going to midnight sales. I can see how that might change with a family and a steady job though.

That said I'm passing on Wii Fit for a while. It's a bit expensive for a gimmicky pad imo, and unlike the gimmicky Wii I don't need it to play Zelda and Mario games.

What I miss is a full schedule of fitness exercises. I would love to be able to select something like "train shoulders", and then my Wii would just make a sequence of all exercises involving my shoulders, and then have me do them. But there is nothing like that in there. Now you have to select every exercise yourself, and go through those typical Nintendo menu's to get there. Like after a exercise, it says retry or quit, can't it just freaking quit and if I want to retry I could just select the same exercise again. I feel at least 25% of the time playing with Wii fit is taken by navigating menu's and pushing buttons to get to a exercise.

Also, enough with the freaking unlocks, damn how I hate unlocks. I bought the game, gave you the money, now give me the full game please!

That aside, I do like the Wii Fit. Especially those Yoga exercises that stretch you back, that feels good after sitting all day. It also gets people off the couch and moving around, so that's a great plus.

I think that's why few people were there, SommerMatt. It was great for me, personally, because I couldn't go anywhere during the day (job) to pick it up, and I was afraid it would sell out due to all the preorders/buzz I was hearing about it. At this point, I'm thinking I was overreacting, and maybe I could have gone somewhere this afternoon to get it.

Also, I'm going on vacation starting tomorrow, and I wanted to be able to bring it with. I'm bringing the Wii anyway for some family fun (Wii Sports, Boom Blox, etc), so this should fit in well.

This thread has been branded official. Looking forward to impressions!

Anyone able to review the yoga programs? Coming from traditional kung fu schools I've realized my kids aren't responding well to my drill sergeant instruction style so I'm thinking about turning them over to the glowing babysitter.

The wife is super interested, so impressions will be forthcoming within a week or so. Hopefully the board gets used for something else interesting (1080 Wii?).

Will you have to add friend codes if you want to do that multiplayer?

God, the developers must have tested the hell out of these things. I was having trouble with one of the yoga moves so I cheated on the last two reps, which the instructor automatically called me on.

So, it says I'm fat (no surprise there), but it also says my Wii Fit Age is 33, only five years off. I expected 83 or something.

First impressions (after about 30 min):

Brain Age is a very good analogy to this game. It's not much of a game in the videogame sense, but if you want to keep yourself entertained while doing balance/aerobic exercise, it is awesome. Like dhaelis said, it makes you really think about your balance, and it's amazing how accurate it is at knowing where you are in a stance and how well you're doing. The audio and visual cues that go along with breathing are a very good aid, and the trainer that's demonstrating and talking to you is a nice help, and not horribly mean like the talking balance board (when you do your daily checkup). It doesn't exaggerate your 'age' like Brain Age does. Seems like it's usually within 5 to 10 years, and actually measures your physical skill using your age as a base.

I could really see the strength, yoga, and aerobic exercises being a great way to fit in a quick workout and be entertained, I'm really hoping there is a way to create a workout and have the exercises automatically chain together later. Even if there isn't, it's a good excuse to get active, and it actually monitors your form, not that it's any replacement for a real class or trainer.

The board seems VERY responsive and accurate. I played the skiing minigame within Wiifit, and it could easily tell when I was leaning to either side (to steer) or when I was leaning forward vs back (to judge speed). I could see how this could easily be converted into kickass skiing/snowboarding/skateboarding games. I'm having visions of grinding on a pole and actually having to keep my weight within a certain ratio of right to left (exactly like the first exercises the wiifit puts you through).

The unlockable content does start with the easier games/exercises and move towards the more difficult ones, but overall it's kind of obnoxious that you can't just go play everything right away if you wanted to. The emphasis seems more on making you 'earn' it and put in playing time than on teaching you the fundementals. But I that's just my opinion.

Note, I do not have any yoga background nor any kong fu ir martial arts stuff in my past. But I do love the yoga exercises. The assistant makes it very clear how you should do the exercise, and you can easily follow his/her moves. I really love the back stretching stuff after a hard day of work. It also makes you very aware of how your balance is.

Also the muscle training is pretty good, it's fun to notice that you actually only need your body to work out, and all that fitness school crap is not needed. (although I'm sure they have their separate benefits) If you do them well it's pretty hard work, and I can imagine you can really get into better shape if you went at it seriously.

I'm not very stoked on the aerobic. Just not my cup of tea I think. My girlfriend does love them, especially those step exercises.

Then I just want to add that you shouldn't buy this for the minigames. They are fun, but not awesome fun. You can't escape the fact that you're still standing on a balance board. It feels a bit more distant then Wii sports because of that. It's more gimmicky in my eyes, where Wii sports was more a full integration of game and Wiimote.

The main part I think, is that it gets people moving, which is great. But the hardest thing will be, like with every sport lazy people try to do, is to keep them coming back to it. Wii fit does try to keep you coming back by telling you that you will improve if you do the exercises every day. The assistants approach you in a positive way, which is good. But it in the end I think it will depend if the person playing likes numbers. Because that is what Wii fit does best, making it tangible to see that you are improving. They do this with the scores you get from each exercise, and the competative people (like me) will try to beat their girlfriends high score every time. Also the diagram at the start up screen really conveys your progress very well which is a great way to make people play more.

Does it work well on carpeting? I have some pretty squishy padding...

BMI is all but useless. It's like doing your finances by weighing your wallet. A pound does not necessarily equal a pound. You could be 5'10" 155# @ 20% body fat or a super lean 5'10" 155# @ 8% body fat and your pixelated Japanese trainer would give you a big kancho finger up either way based on BMI.

I'm surprised they didn't use resistive measurement plates, like a Tanita bodyfat scale. Still not all that accurate but at least it's a measurement of a valid unit rather than your Skrumple value, and if used correctly they're consistent so it does provide a decent measurement of progress.

Amazon actually delivered mine a day early, I've done exercises 3 days in a row now, which is a new record for me.

I'll reiterate what other folks have been saying, it's not necessarily so fun that you'll pick it up to play games, but if you need that extra "oomf" to get yourself to exercise when you already mean to but can find excuses not to, it's a great tool.

My wife and I have been working on losing weight, using a tool called DietPower -- it's kind of a "nutritionist in a box." You put in your weight regularly, tell it what you've been eating, it figures out your metabolism and lets you sets goals for weight loss, suggests foods that complement what you've had already for the day for a balanced diet (no min/maxing like low-carb, low-fat, whatever, just reasonable balance). We've each lost close to 30 pounds since Christmas, but the one thing that we haven't really done is much exercise, we've pretty much been doing it entirely by calorie reduction.

I'm hoping that I can keep up using Wii Fit enough to actually make sure that I'm not burning off muscle while I'm losing weight, and it also gives you that extra boost of spare calories in the bank so you can eat more things that satisfy, making it easier to continue dieting without feeling like you're depriving yourself.

I put really conservative values into Wii Fit for how many calories I expect I burn in an average session, and it easily "pays" for breakfast such that I can have more calories for lunch and dinner. =)