Wii Balance board breaks Guinness World Record For “The best-selling

[CrimzonEyed]

Nintendo has announced today that the Wii Balance Board has been awarded a prestigious, new Guinness World Record for the best-selling personal weighing device.Wii Balance Boards were sold worldwide between launch and November 2010. This figure comprises 22,663,321 bundled with the original Wii Fit software and 9,451,107 bundled with Wii Fit Plus software. Since breaking the record, Nintendo has now sold over 22.67 million copies of Wii Fit and more than 19.31 million copies of Wii Fit Plus worldwide.

“The launch of Wii Fit with the Wii Balance Board revolutionised the way people got active at home, making it fun and easy to exercise in the comfort of their own living room. As the Guinness World Record shows, sales of both Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus have remained healthy since the day they first went on sale and, with Wii now having sold over 30 million units across Europe, Nintendo hopes this trend will remain strong.”

- Laurent Fischer, Managing Director of Marketing & PR of Nintendo of Europe

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[Thesolcity]

There's a market for that?

 

[BreckenTheDude]

There's a market for that?

There's an app for that.

 

[jing90]

I don't know if this is amazing or just silly...

 

[emigre]

And who said Nintendo marketed their consoles to people who don't like video games?

 

[Bladexdsl]

most of the peeps who bought one were fat pricks

 

[Qtis]

Cmon people lets think this through: "I'm fat and I like video games. What should I do? Go to the Gym or... PLAY TO BE IN GOOD CONDITION? WITH A WII BALANCE BOARD? HELL YEAH!". And thus we have a person buying a new Wii Fit. Who said casual things can't be made into games?

 

[Erdnaxela]

Wii fit U confirmed x)

 

[CrimzonEyed]

Wii fit U confirmed x)

http://wiiugo.com/miyamoto-hints-at-full-body-tracking-for-wii-fit-u/

 

[Gahars]

Wait, it's supposed to have significantly outsold scales, which existed long before this game?

Yeah, I don't buy that (Unless it's by specific model, which I guess would work better. Still, though, I find that a bit unlikely.)

 

[Qtis]

Wait, it's supposed to have significantly outsold scales, which existed long before this game?

Yeah, I don't buy that (Unless it's by specific model, which I guess would work better. Still, though, I find that a bit unlikely.)

Basically anyone can make a "new world record" for Guinness if it hasn't been done in a certain situation (place, time, etc) and recorded by Guinness. Thus it could easily be that someone has made a normal scale before, but as long as the sales haven't been forwarded to Guinness, it's Wii Fit for the shishlz

 

[Joe88]

"best-selling personal weighing device"