EA makes fitness game for Wii

Publisher Electronic Arts is going to make a fitness game that will compete with Wii Fit, but will be based on a different style of fitness. EA’s game will be more focused on cardio exercise.

For Nintendo’s balance board, only the Wii Fit game is now available and EA . wants to change bring in. EA’s game, which doesn’t have a title yet, will be different from Wii Fit. According to EA Sports CEO Peter Moore, himself a former gym teacher, Wii Fit is based on Eastern kinematics, where balance is central. Moore wants to base EA’s game on Western cardio exercises. However, the EA CEO wants to ensure that the game becomes comparable to a visit to the gym. The exercises should be fun to do and will be presented as a series of minigames.

Moore, once recruited by Microsoft to bring the Xbox to market, continues familiar that his department is going to start the new label Freestyle. The first game to be released under the new label will be the boxing game Facebreaker. The fitness game will also fall under the new label.