Wee... I mean, Wii!! Today we bought one and joined the ever working out Japanese population with the Wii Fit game, which offers several simple exercises to keep you fit, or at least that's what they say. Among them were yoga, working out (like push-ups and stuff) and a couple of balancing games. Besides the annoying Japanese voice explaining all over again the rules of each game and long waiting time, the games were pretty fun - in all of them you should stand on the balancing board (something like scales, actually, and yes it can measure your weight too) and distribute your weight between left-right and front-back to keep whatever is on the screen balanced.

Apart from the Fit game there are some built-in options you can even "play" without paying for them. One of them was character creator - Mii - where you can build your avatar. (The same avatar appears later in the Fit game, so don't make it too ugly, you two are going to be stuck together for all eternity or till bug in the firmware takes you apart.) That on the picture is Bogi's.

I'm very happy with the other functions too. The thoughtful guys from Nintendo put Weather and News channels - which work through network connection for unknown to me reasons. Considering you need a TV to play the Wii now you can use your box to check the weather and to read news as well. Wow! Who'd have though of this!

Well, enough with the sarcasm, the console is actually pretty neat.
Can't wait to hack it :)
Alex