So I’ve given in. After nearly two years of the Wii being out, I now have to have one. Am I just hop­ping onto the Wii Fit band­wagon, well prob­a­bly, but who wouldn’t. I’ve never con­sid­ered myself a gamer, or felt like I had enough time to play video games, but with the release of the new Wii Fit, I can trade up the costs I would nor­mally fork out for a gym mem­ber­ship and buy some­thing that’s both good for you and fun to play.

I have friends who really love the Wii and have been telling me how great they are since they’ve come out, and until now I think that the mar­ket the Wii is really excit­ing to has never been the kind of per­son I am. Wii Fit really changes all of that by offer­ing a rea­son to buy a video game con­sole with­out nec­es­sar­ily hav­ing the inten­tion to play video games, but instead to get to play video games when hap­pen­ing to get some exer­cise. Another aspect that really makes the Wii Fit enjoy­able for those of us who aren’t used to sit­ting for hours and play­ing video games, is that by offer­ing short-burst like games, the idea of play­ing won’t get boring.

One of the things that’s always amazed me about about the Wii is how smart it is, and how play­ing games and inter­act­ing with your Mii char­ac­ters become part of your lifestyle, not just plug­ging in a game and play­ing. On top of all the other way cool things the Wii offers, you can buy old clas­sic games you grew up play­ing. Don­key Kong, Super Mario, Zelda if you’re so inclined; all of these can be down­loaded directly to your con­sole via a wire­less con­nec­tion and stored on your machine. You sim­ply buy a “Clas­sic” con­troller and you can play any mul­ti­tude of old games with­out hav­ing to pur­chase mul­ti­ple con­soles, and clean up some space for the super­flu­ous acces­sories you have to have.

So after work today or tomor­row I’m going to go get my Wii, and with a friend’s help a Wii Fit too, and this week­end I will get Mii fit.