Is It Really Great for Your Body? More Importantly Is It Safe for Your Plasma TV?

metascore: 79
Plasma Safe Verdict:
Yellow Alert

Sometimes things in life seem so close to ideal that it's almost scary. Wii Fit carries those ideal promises with it everywhere it goes: Lose weight playing a video game. Get in shape without leaving the house. Lose all the weight you want for one easy payment. Gym membership benefits without the gym membership price or embarrassment.

By now most people have figured out that if it seems too good to be true than it probably is. Wii Fit is a great Wii add-on / game and the Balance Board holds wonderful possibilities. But we know it's not going to make us all thin and sexy. In fact, most balance boards won't get through their first set of batteries before a layer of dust covers them.

Can Wii Fit help you get the body of your dreams?
Sure it can! Well, it certainly won't make the one you already have any worse. The software is good and the Balance Board is excellent. But, like all things exercise related it will take time and commitment. Oh, and a healthy diet goes a long way as well.

But more importantly is Wii Fit safe for your Plasma TV?
The best answer I can give you is "YES, almost."
Wii Fit would have received a Green Alert rating here on Wii Plasma, which basically means we believe it's totally safe, except danger lurks deep in one area of the game. Wii Fit contains many mini-game like exercises for you to enjoy and almost all of them are Plasma friendly because they either don't last long or they don't have any stationary on-screen items that could cause burn-in. All expect for the Free Run. Once you have jogged your way around the island a few times you open up the Free Run which lets you run for extended periods of time. This is great if you like to jog in place but the on-screen timer and step counter stay still the whole time your jogging.

Now, I know a 30 minute Wii Fit jog really is not long enough to cause permanent damage to your plasma screen but it is long enough to leave a ghost impression and leaving a ghost impression is cause for a Yellow Alert here at Wii Plasma.

Thankfully the solution to this problem is actually a part of the Free Run concept itself. When you start a Free Run the game tells you that you can change the channel on your TV and the sounds needed to keep you on track and in-step will come from your Wii-mote. If you change the channel the risk for burn-in or ghosting is gone and it makes the time go by faster as you burn off those unsightly hours of stationary gaming from the day before.