Shigeru Miyamoto, the mind behind everyones favorite plumber and Wii Fit is already looking towards the next step.

Wii Fit is an unprecedented success despite pessimistic predictions. Wii Fit is a harsh and demanding personal trainer. It keeps track of your weight and BMI, asking you to explain yourself if you show an increase. It compares you against your family members and criticizes you when you fall behind. Despite this people are buying the game in droves. Amazingly enough, there has been no reported rise in collateral damage from Wii Fit players destroying stuff out of frustration.

“We thought they might, but the evidence from Japan is that they get cross with themselves — not the machine. They don’t blame the game.”

Miyamoto is naturally pleased at the success of Wii Fit and is already moving towards taking the punishment to the next level. Wii Fit will be evolving to include web based game play, to allow players to compete with people outside their household.

Lest people embrace Wii Fit with too much enthusiasm, Miyamoto does offer a word of caution and encouragement for players to emulate the Wii balance board in their real lives:

“Spending too long, staying in and playing any video game is not good,” said Miyamoto. “I always tell my children to get out on a sunny day and I, myself, went jogging in Central Park yesterday. But I do my stretching on Wii Fit. They work together.”

via TimesOnline

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