{"id":74,"date":"2008-03-24T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T19:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/2008\/03\/24\/wii-fitness\/"},"modified":"2008-03-24T11:18:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T19:18:11","slug":"wii-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Wii Fitness!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wii has revolutionalized gaming systems.\u00a0 It&#8217;s brought simple mechanics back into the gaming world and has allowed physical play to replace narrative.\u00a0 I love my wii&#8230; but find that, at this point in my life, play without any realistic reward returned just isn&#8217;t interesting enough to me to spend hours a day at at.\u00a0 The reality:\u00a0 I just dont have the time.<\/p>\n<p>The age-old hurdle of game makers, has always been to figure out how to involve more &#8220;family&#8221; experience into game play.\u00a0 How do I engage more than just the teen-age boys in video-games.\u00a0 How do I market to the moms?\u00a0 Wii has totally done it!\u00a0 I took my Wii to my mom&#8217;s home in Michigan with me last summer (my litmus test for all things technology).\u00a0 She LOVED it.\u00a0 She would come home from work and beg me to play bowling with her.\u00a0 It was great.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve found the same results with the majority of my non-tech girlfriends, here in the bay.\u00a0 The problem is though, I could never see them getting really hooked&#8230; because, simply, they don&#8217;t find the value to set aside large amounts of time to &#8220;play a game&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Wii Fitness has put what every busy woman wants back into the game. \u00a0\u00a0 It does what other games and systems don&#8217;t:\u00a0 Gives real world meaning and results to something you can play with.\u00a0 Busy women, working moms, etc, I think are really going to love this!<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to get mine!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/store.pandorascube.com\/wiifit.html\">You can pre-order here<\/a>.\u00a0 Its scheduled to be released May 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Anita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wii has revolutionalized gaming systems.\u00a0 It&#8217;s brought simple mechanics back into the gaming world and has allowed physical play to replace narrative.\u00a0 I love my wii&#8230; but find that, at this point in my life, play without any realistic reward returned just isn&#8217;t interesting enough to me to spend hours a day at at.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitawilhelm.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}