{"id":313,"date":"2007-07-11T14:59:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T20:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2007-07-11T14:59:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T20:59:52","slug":"nintendo-announces-wii-fit-step-pad-to-get-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Announces Wii Fit: Step Pad To Get Healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Nintendo&#8217;s newly announced Wii Fit, with a step pad accessory for the Wii, I thought of the question, when did Nintendo start to care about the health of its customers?  I know for the longest time now, Nintendo has been throwing in warnings about health into their games.  Reminding players to take a break after playing for too long and reminding them to wear their wrist straps. This Wii Fit is a change in direction for them.  When people get into better shape by using this step pad they might be more inclined to get out and participate in sports.  This could end up hurting the company as people will spend less time playing games and playing their Wii.  So thank you Nintendo for entertaining us for so many years, but I am wondering where your long term strategy is at by making exercise games.  They really need to learn that if they want us to be gamers for life we need to be fat. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1pstart.com\/nintendo-announces-wii-fit-step-pad-to-get-healthy\/\">read more<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/nintendo_wii\/Nintendo_Announces_Wii_Fit_Step_Pad_To_Get_Healthy\">digg story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Nintendo&#8217;s newly announced Wii Fit, with a step pad accessory for the Wii, I thought of the question, when did Nintendo start to care about the health of its customers? I know for the longest time now, Nintendo has been throwing in warnings about health into their games. Reminding players to take a break &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nintendo Announces Wii Fit: Step Pad To Get Healthy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}