Rumor: Patent Reveals PS3 Fitness Exercise Gaming Device

Wii Fit only sold well because of the hype behind it. I own a wii, and a few of my friends do as well. A couple of my friends bought Fit and used it for maybe a week before that balance board got put into the closet.

It doesn't really do anything, but everyone was so hyped up because it was supposed to be a "cool" way to exercise with video games (not that this idea hasn't already been around forever).

I just hope if Sony does this, they do it right and give people real workouts while making it fun to play.

Well I can't blame them for wanting to muscle in on the market, Wii Fit has sold pretty well. On the other hand, I don't know if it's going to work so well for Sony... fitness in HD? Seems a little overkill to me.

Well Time Crisis has made guns before for the original time crisis games so it wouldnt be really copying the wii. Anyways, lets hope this goes well for SONY.

Heh, it is both funny and interesting watching the various companies now try and play catch up in areas they once quite vocally scoffed at before. If it had not been made a viable market with recent successes in this area, things like this would more than likely never have been green lighted.

Now they start to see how much of the big picture they were missing before by being so set in their ways and not thinking outside of the box. But if those images are even remotely close to what they are actually proposing it will be very interesting to see the consumer response to the product.

The balance board and wiimote combination already imposes some interesting ways of making you look foolish/silly/uncomfortable/etc. while at the same time being somewhat effective at allowing for other takes on interactive mediums and control schemes, but like someone said above, this device looks to be a little too one dimensional in terms of use. i guess with this and the "new" motion tracking devices, only time will tell where things will end up.

lol, your not the only one.

well, I guess alot of guys wouldn't mind watching their girl doing a bit of exercise with this.