FITTER, HAPPIER: NINTENDO EXTENDS WII FIT SERVICE TO HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Though I honestly find its exercise routine too broken up to feel genuinely satisfying (and have for some time instead been recommending — in all seriousness! — Respondesign’s PC/PS2/Xbox app Yourself Fitness), there’s great potential for harnessing and expanding on Wii Fit‘s connectedness to push it into essential territory (competing against friends? local/national challenges?) that to date has gone underserved.
But it appears in Japan, at least, Nintendo’s making good — andriasang files a translated story saying the company is partnering with NEC, Panasonic and Hitachi with a new Wii channel that will send a user’s Wii Fit data to the professional health industry to receive ‘health instruction’ and connect with a recently launched NEC ‘mobile health service.’
The site also says the new ‘Wii Fit Body Check Channel’ will connect with DS pedometer-enabled health app Aruite Wakaru Seikatsu Rhythm DS (which already has been used to transfer Miis for portable personality) to share mobile and local exercise data — here’s hoping all this interconnectivity makes its way stateside soon.
Nintendo teams with electronics makers for Wii Fit health services [andriasang]
Previously:
Wii Fit tops 2008 Japan Media Arts Festival games entrants – Offworld
Miyamoto, Spore awarded Jim Henson Honors – Offworld
Expose the Wii's hidden Mii-transfer menu. – Offworld
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