Exercise and conduct music on your Wii

[Misty]

Wii music and workout game coming soon?

As if the Wii didn't amaze me enough already--now, you can reportedly use it as a medium for exercise. (Kire would like this, I think.) It also dropped a hint about a possible new Wii channel related to this concept.

Oh, and the Wii Music offering looks interesting as well. You can conduct an orchestra, create songs and share them through WiiConnect. (That hasn't been totally confirmed as of yet, but it may be a possibility.)

[Wavelength]

Re: Exercise and conduct music on your Wii

Honestly I'd rather go for a good Music Generator type of program over something where you need to physically conduct (which sounds more like ElectroPlankton than anything else). I hope they price Wii Music at $20 (I can almost guarantee better revenue, but not necessarily better profit), but slim chance of that, eh?

As far as the exercise, I do wonder what kind of "exercise" they're talking about. If it's just measuring certain "biometrics" during your other games, like Wii Golf, then it's a pure and simple gimmick. If it's giving you things to measure your pulse, for example, during real exercises that they have you do with a program, and it can tell when your pulse seems too spotty... that would be a GREAT piece of equipment that could probably be done on any platform, but would be a system seller for me anyhow.

Anyway, sorry to hyperanalyze this one, it's just that there's so much speculation running through my head now that I feel the need to write down.

[hitogoroshi]

Re: Exercise and conduct music on your Wii

If Wii Music lets you make music, hell yes.

[Kire]

Re: Exercise and conduct music on your Wii

I can conduct music with my Wii, but that wouldn't be very proper.

I'd be interested in seeing some kinda Kung Fu or boxing Wii game, but I'm skeptical on the quality of workout they'll give. Hell, I barely consider hard DDR songs a decent workout and I lift my legs knee height to get a good burn.

[Misty]

Re: Exercise and conduct music on your Wii

What's really neat is that the data collected get sent to real hospitals contracted by Nintendo. The data is "anaylzed", I suppose, and some results are sent back to you via WiiConnect or something like that.

Pretty cool.

Next thing you'll know, I'll be asking for a remedy to a sore throat through my Wii.

[Wavelength]

Re: Exercise and conduct music on your Wii

I'd be interested in seeing some kinda Kung Fu or boxing Wii game, but I'm skeptical on the quality of workout they'll give. Hell, I barely consider hard DDR songs a decent workout and I lift my legs knee height to get a good burn.

So Deep on Heavy (~1:40 length) apparently has me burning over 50 calories per run-through. If that's not a good workout, I don't know what is!!

Yeah, Kung-Fu or Boxing games won't help you much... but I'm wondering if they're going for a more traditional workout? Certainly, they wouldn't even consider sending information from a Kung Fu game to a contracted hospital... so I do wonder what they're getting at here.

What's really neat is that the data collected get sent to real hospitals contracted by Nintendo. The data is "anaylzed", I suppose, and some results are sent back to you via WiiConnect or something like that.

Well, they're not going to read every bit of input that every Wii gleans from you. (Another problem would be the accuracy of these things, both from a technical and player's-inconsistencies point of view.) I don't know exactly WHAT these "hospitals" are going to be doing... like I said, my hope is that it reads your vitals and sees if there's anything out of the ordinary. If there is, it would send it to a hospital and you could get checked out. Hopefully you'll have a good insurance plan.

[Vonwert]

Re: Exercise and conduct music on your Wii

DDR for the Wii will have you dancing and waving your arms. That should really give people more of an exercise.