How was Wii Fit created?

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  • Wii Fit was a huge success. And that's down to a rather unusual source of inspiration. ...SUMO WRESTLING!
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  • @adamgreene9938
    @adamgreene9938 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    He didn't even MENTION "My body is ready."

    • @Rdanstew
      @Rdanstew 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/2Gc5cuekQto/w-d-xo.html

  • @looxs4034
    @looxs4034 3 ปีที่แล้ว +388

    Lol at first I thought the title was how WiFi took inspiration from sumo wrestling

    • @pandafriends6188
      @pandafriends6188 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      LOL IMAGINE IF IT DID!

    • @looxs4034
      @looxs4034 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @Panda Friends we would live in a different type of world if it did lol

    • @kwisowofer9872
      @kwisowofer9872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      You want internet? -Wario will show you internet!- Fight for it.

    • @jjjollyfuntime3036
      @jjjollyfuntime3036 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      😶

    • @RandomPyroYT
      @RandomPyroYT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@kwisowofer9872 WARIO NO

  • @bibarel5097
    @bibarel5097 3 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    1:17 I legitimately thought that Miyamoto would explode...

  • @tanline6662
    @tanline6662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    "One of the games is skiing, shown here"
    *Shows snowboarding*

    • @Sonictheoofhog4
      @Sonictheoofhog4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Timecode, please.

    • @tileguy918
      @tileguy918 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Carolyn Moore here
      Edited bcz no

    • @RandomPyroYT
      @RandomPyroYT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tileguy918 nice 👌

    • @tileguy918
      @tileguy918 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      memeazoid can’t let them know that it’s 10:32

    • @Bellyofthebeast6
      @Bellyofthebeast6 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      To be fair, they DO look almost exactly the same. They just copy and pasted the same minigame but gave you a snowboard instead.

  • @PinkieOats
    @PinkieOats 3 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    I loved this game so much as kid. It was fun and got me moving, but I never really broke a sweat on the Wii Balance Board. Only in the jogging game haha. Ring Fit really feels like the successor to making you fit!

    • @greenbear7925
      @greenbear7925 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Woah 😨 I wasn’t expecting you “rock legend Bob Dylan”to be in a comment section like this.

    • @FreakishSmilePA
      @FreakishSmilePA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I never played Wii fit. Ironically enough, there was a Mario sports game where you could play four different sports. WITH NO MOTION CONTROLS, or at least very little motion controls. It's not very popular, but I loved it so much that I'd bounce of the walls and just get drenched in sweat. Ironic that you played a physically interactive game and never broke a sweat but a stationary Wii game was my exercise lol
      EDIT. I FINALLY REMEMBER, ITS MARIO SPORTS MIX...

    • @melandriqssb5142
      @melandriqssb5142 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Anakin Skywalker that's because you didn't had the high ground

  • @Yamartim
    @Yamartim 3 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    imagine landing a job at nintendo expecting to make the next mario or zelda and then miyamoto comes up to you like "ye so you gotta make a game about bathroom scales"

  • @gerking195
    @gerking195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    I swear miyamoto comes up with the randomest ideas that turn out great

    • @yodersitsgrandmagood1416
      @yodersitsgrandmagood1416 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      A plumber and his taller but younger brother who eat mushrooms, flowers, and stars to kill a bunch of turtles to rescue a princess.

    • @TeaWithRandomStuff
      @TeaWithRandomStuff ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@yodersitsgrandmagood1416 a plumber and his taller but younger brother who eat random things out of blocks to kill living mushrooms, turtles, and a fire-breathing dragon turtle lizard man with an axe behind him to rescue a princess kidnapped by the dragon turtle lizard man with an axe behind him

  • @thevarietygameboy5569
    @thevarietygameboy5569 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    10:50 the trampoline minigame was implemented on Wii Fit U

    • @razamirza5841
      @razamirza5841 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Amazingly, it is one of my favourite mini games.

    • @DolceArdore
      @DolceArdore 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It sounds super fun

    • @mistressze8341
      @mistressze8341 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@razamirza5841 same

    • @linkmaster8
      @linkmaster8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Arguably the best wii fit that nobody knew about due to lack of marketing and ya know the wii u in general

    • @imafaux7424
      @imafaux7424 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@linkmaster8 I honestly think the Wii U was good…
      For playing Mario kart Wii and super smash bros. Brawl

  • @flickerflame85
    @flickerflame85 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Miyamoto: alright men! Get me some bathroom scales!
    Nintendo: I’m sorry... what?
    Miyamoto: Did I stutter?!

  • @JMarcosArt
    @JMarcosArt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    The Miyamoto animations had me laughing like an idiot 😂

  • @EricDoesEverythingSeries
    @EricDoesEverythingSeries 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I could just imagine the developers going like, oh frick, we forgot the twinkling sound effects. We need some twinkle. 🤣

  • @CoreyT97
    @CoreyT97 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    This whole crisis makes it make so much sense as to why she's now in Smash Bros. They want to preserve a character that took so much stress to create lol

  • @spocite
    @spocite 3 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    This is the definition of quality over quantity

    • @Valenslays
      @Valenslays 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree

    • @MRMeaws
      @MRMeaws 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tbh his schedule is great

  • @loreleihillard5078
    @loreleihillard5078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Wii Fit was definitely the reason my dad (who grew up as a small school equivalent of a jock) bought my family a Wii. Ever since, I've enjoyed video games as a pastime and the Wii has always remained my favourite console.

  • @amf2k2xf
    @amf2k2xf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I noticed that Thomas still occasionally used the cardboard style even though it rarely appears in his recent vids but I noticed the piano ending is still absent in recent vids including this vid on wii fit but I still enjoyed the overhaul I just missed seeing it from his vids

    • @zaycash176
      @zaycash176 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shut the mmmm

  • @robandjoandalfie
    @robandjoandalfie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Top notch editing. Perfect scripting. I will award you the highest honour I can bestow upon you.
    A like.

  • @aidymch7805
    @aidymch7805 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    thomas has inadvertently created an miyamoto inflation fandom 😶😶😶

  • @Brian-rx9sp
    @Brian-rx9sp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm having flashbacks to when Miyamoto told Retro Studios to give Samus a "bug's head" in Metroid Prime 1 and how everyone was completely bewildered as to what the fuck he meant by that until they realised he was talking about the visor mechanic. I want to know how many other Nintendo games were conceived because of bizarre and random ideas Miyamoto suggested. It's like working for The Riddler.

  • @bonegloveGG
    @bonegloveGG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Honestly at this point I'm not surprised that miyamoto came up with Wii fit, guy's a legend

  • @II-pw6le
    @II-pw6le 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Time traveler holds Nintendo switch in 2006 6:00

  • @MrKlimcio
    @MrKlimcio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    9:16 "not only that, but the entire development team went and visited a gym for..."
    Me: "for the first time?"

  • @spearpanda8016
    @spearpanda8016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Because of the Wii, so many things in Nintendo we’re greatly improved

    • @RandomPyroYT
      @RandomPyroYT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I like you're pfp

    • @RyanSeasunk
      @RyanSeasunk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Except Mario tennis ultra smash
      Or amibo festival
      Or chibi robo zip lash

    • @titangamingbot2521
      @titangamingbot2521 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@RyanSeasunk NOT ON THE WII

    • @RyanSeasunk
      @RyanSeasunk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fair enough. But they came AFTER the wii

    • @kingbill8155
      @kingbill8155 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @titan gaming bot plus it was on the wii u, which, face it, it’s basically a wii with a tablet

  • @jammfinalgirl
    @jammfinalgirl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1:20 I love this image so much

  • @zigaudrey
    @zigaudrey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    When Miyamoto want to attract non-hardcore gamer, it makes me love him even more.

  • @ChiefBlueScreen
    @ChiefBlueScreen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    4:50 sounds like a Nick Robinson setup. But they're already in japan

  • @lxquid.ocelot
    @lxquid.ocelot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    2007: a crisis was taking place
    2020: another crisis was taking place

    • @zaycash176
      @zaycash176 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      2030:crises averted

  • @Bellyofthebeast6
    @Bellyofthebeast6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm glad they pulled that trampoline minigame idea back out while making the last installment of the series. Whoever suggested it and got turned down originally must've felt SO satisfied when it ended up making it in the game.

  • @CyanicCore
    @CyanicCore 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Quite a great story, and I'm really glad it payed off! Many came together, and so many more were impacted!

  • @28add11
    @28add11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thicc Myamoto is something I need more of in my life.

    • @OK-qg2zd
      @OK-qg2zd 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don’t get why everyone calls anything that’s big or fat,thick.Thicc is supposed to mean someone who’s certain body parts are attractive or appealing to look at.Bloated Miyamoto certainly isn’t that.

    • @zaycash176
      @zaycash176 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@OK-qg2zd shut the $/$:74

    • @OK-qg2zd
      @OK-qg2zd 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zaycash176 no you

    • @n1jigen
      @n1jigen 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@OK-qg2zd inflated miyamoto

    • @OK-qg2zd
      @OK-qg2zd 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@n1jigen fair enough

  • @Duckovile
    @Duckovile 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Hey Thomas, i really love your content it's so good and bingeable you are so underrated, you gained a new sub, Just kidding i was already subscribed :) I can easily see you getting millions i hope you have a good day - Duckovile

  • @llamasdoingmusic7731
    @llamasdoingmusic7731 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    AwEsOmE vId WaTcHeD tHe WhOlE tHiNg AlReAdY 😎👍

  • @seandon3827
    @seandon3827 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love this game! I just bought the Wii U version to get fit during this lockdown. This video explains a lot of the nuances in the game!

  • @Nakia11798
    @Nakia11798 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am SO glad they opted out of colouring the trainers.

  • @dishman4694
    @dishman4694 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I am still lost on how GameCUBE didn’t exceed expectations. The ONLY Nintendo project on a disc. Minidisc at that. That contains an entire world.

  • @skull0gd222
    @skull0gd222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Everyone at Nintendo: *working on Nintendo stuff*
    Wii fit duo: *can’t find a bathroom scale for the game*

  • @trevorrandom
    @trevorrandom 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your docs are awesome!

  • @eyesoftomorrows
    @eyesoftomorrows 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was a nice video! Your voice is calm and nice!

  • @shojiki2962
    @shojiki2962 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "It was 2͟0͟0͟7͟"
    this is gonna be a good video

  • @pranayarajvaidhaya3020
    @pranayarajvaidhaya3020 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This channel is severely underrated its a mini documentary

  • @Astaroth73
    @Astaroth73 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Bathroom scale company: "What in the actual fuck does Nintendo need a scale?"
    Sugiyama and Miyamoto: "us either"

  • @potatoons3270
    @potatoons3270 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wow, I was watching this with a friend and *WII* never knew about this interesting backstory to the creation of wii fit.

  • @papayapeaks1693
    @papayapeaks1693 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    man these Nintendo Wives are really the backbone of the company

  • @liambaron7112
    @liambaron7112 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    you made me want to try this game out. I believe I still have the disc somewhere.

  • @xenapaprika4555
    @xenapaprika4555 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’ve been praying for a Wii fit episode thank you

  • @songokai2992
    @songokai2992 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    9:25 Miyamoto is savage

  • @selalox373
    @selalox373 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the animation of miyamoto gaining weight is so beautiful

  • @mainframehacker
    @mainframehacker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:05 Nintendo on every single world 8 of every single Mario game

  • @jonnyxbower
    @jonnyxbower 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    10:41 says skiing. proceeds to say snowboarding 💀

  • @Nintendude.
    @Nintendude. ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Truly the Sumos are the real heroes.

  • @agamaz5650
    @agamaz5650 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am surprised! Your videos are great!

  • @dagonkur
    @dagonkur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Finally made it here in time just to see Sumos.

  • @CC_MiniKid
    @CC_MiniKid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2:28 it’s was for this very Wii son

  • @Pawl0solidus
    @Pawl0solidus ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wii fit is an eternal game for me! Really well made and makes me exercise even today!

  • @willag808
    @willag808 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i listen to these as calm background music

  • @ambivac
    @ambivac 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    just fyi, the scrapped trampolining minigame was used in wii fit u ^^

  • @allieplayz3363
    @allieplayz3363 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    07:58 THE SPLATOON FONT :D

  • @jacquelynnpleis7096
    @jacquelynnpleis7096 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi, Thomas! Cool video!

  • @ClarkBBravo
    @ClarkBBravo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I actually have the game and the board but I never there was a backstory within the game!!!

  • @0RIGINALDK
    @0RIGINALDK ปีที่แล้ว +1

    MY BODY IS READY

  • @xxbowserpartyxx7733
    @xxbowserpartyxx7733 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    0:38 my favorite sport!

  • @Brickcenter1932
    @Brickcenter1932 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video

  • @MadMario2401
    @MadMario2401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ironically, this video came out 4 days after my brother got Wii Fit Plus for my birthday.

  • @energeticmew69lastname55
    @energeticmew69lastname55 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wait, in one of the pictures someone had a switch...were they from the future!?

  • @bagelforks
    @bagelforks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Bruh the wii weight thing was calling me fat but sumo wrestlers have it cool? Wtf nitendo

  • @LowLevelWarrior
    @LowLevelWarrior 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    10:45 that almoust sounded like a Mario mini game... (WAhoo!)

  • @Neal1442
    @Neal1442 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    4:44 uhh, its supposed to go on the back... WAIT, IS THE USB A DISC

  • @t0biascze644
    @t0biascze644 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have wii balance board, but only game i play on it is We Ski and Snowboard.
    Its really good game, it uses nunchuck and WiiMote as skiing sticks and by titling the sticks you turn, or you can use the balance board

    • @andysavs1838
      @andysavs1838 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've heard of that game once and it sounds cool. I've never actually played it tho.

  • @purplebearmom78
    @purplebearmom78 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    10/10 content my guy

  • @libosen
    @libosen 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a story wow

  • @Atticblood
    @Atticblood 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember my grandmother used to have a Wii for exercise

  • @iamaliveeee5414
    @iamaliveeee5414 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I miss my wii thanks for inspiring me to play on it again :)

  • @powerzebra6464
    @powerzebra6464 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well trampolining made it in Wii Fit U

  • @eleanorherzog5330
    @eleanorherzog5330 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Me looking at the title: “but it’s wii fit not wii fat”

  • @AtomBacon
    @AtomBacon 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    To think I owe my main in a game about knocking your enemy out of the ring on a sport about knocking your enemy out of the ring.

  • @annadornbusch8104
    @annadornbusch8104 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love that with any new idea Nintendo is like yo let's send some people of irl

  • @anaunusual9693
    @anaunusual9693 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    wii fit called my fat yesterday.
    im quite skinny
    still hurt tho-

  • @daandanx
    @daandanx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    2:00... But the Wii already released in 2006

  • @Hot18Shot
    @Hot18Shot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Imagine instead 9:41 being in Smash...

  • @MxllowRbx
    @MxllowRbx 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Doing it doing it woah

  • @Legitbo
    @Legitbo ปีที่แล้ว

    "Trampolining would be boring! Where's the fun in that"
    Wii fit U: 😶

  • @NintentendoNova
    @NintentendoNova ปีที่แล้ว

    "My body is ready"

  • @Zachruff
    @Zachruff 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Trampolining was added to Wii Fit U which is cool

  • @worldofcyn
    @worldofcyn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    very interesting story

  • @senseigoat4815
    @senseigoat4815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I Love his videos

  • @galaxycat7172
    @galaxycat7172 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ah yes the one thing from wii fit I’ll remember “my body is ready”

  • @RHTQ1
    @RHTQ1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:04
    Didn't the wii come out in 2006? How were they planning in 2007?

  • @alexmuratore95
    @alexmuratore95 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Will the "wii fit just straight up called you obese" boys please stand up?
    ...don't lie you know it happened to you😏

    • @noob_dood1901
      @noob_dood1901 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Alex Muratore the exact opposite happened to me

    • @Thoomas2001
      @Thoomas2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Considering I'm underweight... no, it didn't.

    • @somnolentCyanide
      @somnolentCyanide 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ✋helo

  • @weichang9693
    @weichang9693 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    how do you not have more subscribers

  • @ArtyRTArtie
    @ArtyRTArtie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    we need more uploads but thomas has some stuff to do :(

  • @padraigmaclochlainn8866
    @padraigmaclochlainn8866 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We almost lost the best Smash Porn

  • @sussy_swedish
    @sussy_swedish 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    the trampolining is in the wii u version

  • @Fidodo
    @Fidodo 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That is the classiest please subscribe I've ever heard. "You can subscribe for more videos like this every week" is so much better than "Please smash that like comment and subscribe button!".

  • @jillcat3306
    @jillcat3306 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fun fact: trampolining was not fully scrapped, they had it in the Wii Fit U. But it was scrapped in the wii.

  • @mixiesticks
    @mixiesticks 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been using Wii Fit up until Ring Fit came out.
    Though I haven't lost any weight, I have pretty good balance!

  • @lixer21
    @lixer21 ปีที่แล้ว

    the trampoline game is in wii fit u

  • @frankbrislin4378
    @frankbrislin4378 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    5:15 Oh for the love of money. "We're developing a fitness based video game."; it isn't that difficult to explain.

  • @selalox373
    @selalox373 ปีที่แล้ว

    “no more video games!”
    “lemme play on my wii i will play wii fit”
    “what

  • @d11ita
    @d11ita 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting. But in 2007 Wii wasn't the next Nintendo console, it was the current one.

  • @orhoushmand85
    @orhoushmand85 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I hope a balance board will be released for Nintendo Switch.

  • @nateseymour8934
    @nateseymour8934 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maybe that’s why I never lost weight playing wii fit. I always only played the minigames