Sixteen months after the Nintendo Wii launched in the United States, and people are still having a hard time getting their hands on it. Sure it’s gotten a little easier, but you still won’t see a Wii sitting on the shelves at the store for very long. Because of this, the popular console (which retails for $249) is still selling for a premium on sites like eBay. Following in its footsteps is the Wii Fit which launched in the U.S. a few days ago. It retails for $89 yet it’s selling on eBay for a premium as well because stores are sold-out.
I decided to go to eBay to look at the completed listings for both the Wii Console and Wii Fit and what I found was if you want both and you can’t find them in the stores, you could easily end up spending $500 for what would normally cost about $340. The Wii Fit looks like it is selling for around $155 on average on eBay while the Wii Console itself still sells for about $350 on average (sometimes less, sometimes more).
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= Expensive way to get “fit!”
With gas and food prices continuing to climb, and the Wii and the Wii Fit hard to come by unless you want to pay a premium, it looks like consumers might just be better off investing in a good pair of running shoes!
Actually if you consider the potential for how engaging it will be having games incorporated with exercise, it has the potential to be infinitely more cost effective than any other type of fitness equipment. You know, the kind people buy, use for a few weeks, then get bored with and forget about in the back of the closet.
I understand what you’re saying, but I could see people getting bored with the Wii Fit as well. I know for myself, when we got the Wii we played it all the time because it was something new and exciting, and fun. As the months passed, we played it less and less because the excitement wore off and we had played the same games over and over again.
First of all, I can’t disagree with Iam Cammarata more. If the Wii Fit was all that “engaging” we would be reading about more kids dying in China from starvation while doing the wii hula hoop game rather than from their kidneys shutting down while playing WoW for the 47th straight hour.
Secondly,if Ian’s closet is so full of unused excercise equipment, he should give me back that set of golf clubs I LEANT him. And I’m not sure what mutated monster foot he has, but a pair of running shoes doesn’t take up that much space in my closet and I don’t get bored of using them.