Told you so. Eurogamer has reported that EA Sports' Peter Moore has revealed the company's development of a "fitness game" that will use the balance board peripheral from Wii Fit. Moore detailed the game's design and intent at a company showcase in Vancouver, saying the unnamed title would focus more on "western fitness" than Wii Fit's eastern "holistic fitness."
Moore, according to the report, has fully embraced the notion of casual gaming for EA Sports and its new Freestyle label:
It can't feel like a workout. The team has to figure out, how do I smile while I'm doing this? You play soccer for 90 minutes; if I say you're going to run five miles you're not gonna want to do that. But you run for five miles playing soccer and you've had a good time.
The difference is you're distracted. We need to distract people and not make this exercise feel like work, but like they're having fun. So mini-games, things where you're actually laughing out loud, that's the stuff we're working on. It's something I've always been passionate about, and who better than us to go and play in that market?
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