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The reasons why I want the Game Cube adapter to work in Wii mode on the Wii U: Active Life and Metal Slug Anthology.  The Active life controller is the best combined workout and fun factor if used right.  (The Balance Board can sometimes be fun, but is not as aerobic).  And Metal slug plays awkwardly on a Wii U becuase a) you can't use the classic controllers, and without the Game Cube Ports working, you can't use Game Cube controllers on it either.   You'll be motioning for buttons, and pressing buttons in weird places.  Then and only then Nintendo can claim 100% Wii compatibility with Wii U.

With this you can make exergamers that are actually games, not just computer gym trainers.  Games where my actions affect yours and your actions affect mine.   Make a Run And Gun Augment for Splatoon, using the Active Life Pad to determine the speed you run at, and the joypad for direction.   Makes for a more realistic shooter in terms of not being able to go all out all the time.   You have to pace yourself, and pick your moments when you're going to dash.

The Balance board is fine for a Mario Pedal Kart Augment.  I Biked on the Balance Board and it was good exercise, but there may need to pedal speed adjustments so the game has the same speed-feel as Mario Kart 8.

The problem is that fitness games are primarily computerized fitness trainers, not really games per se.   There are a couple harmless things you can OPTIONALLY add exercise to otherwise good and popular games (I'm not requiring couch potatoes to get off the couch, just make it an option for those who want to squeeze in exercising while playing a more traditional game).

It seems that Active Life is the most Game-like exergame of all the major releases, but even that game is all solitary for things that matter (i.e all games that burn heavy calories).  And even those games cannot be played on Wii U, because Nintendo didn't make the Game Cube Port adapters work with newer Wiis and Wii Us

No one is addressing my point.  Would an exer-augment to an existing game like Mario Pedal Karts, Run and Gun Splatoon, or the hypothetical Mario World Footballers get you to (sometimes) get off the couch and burn a few calories?   I'm speaking as someone trying to add some exercise in my life but , a) doesn't have any local friends that's not a 40 minute drive on the freeway away, not exactly the most athletic type, and c) finding the tedium of standard exercise games boring. (It feels like Gym Class.)   Would this be the (pardon the stereotype) nerdy way to become a jock?   Don't forget to address some of the previous points I made.

People complain enough at motion and gyro controls... imagine this...
There are places for fitness in video games and honestly wii fit, zumba, even just dance do a good enough job imo.
If you are going to all these lengths for fitness u might as well hit the gym, pop in a cario dvd, or get outside and enjoy the outdoors.

the point is the social aspect of gaming would make it more attractive, while simultaneously, anynimity gets rid of the jock vs. nerd mentality.  You're just one opponent, out of millions.  You probably won't be insulted, and even if they privately are, you won't know it because the mic is muted both ways.  And they won't single you out for a dodgeball to the face.  They'll probably sick their best on your best, not you.

You're not competing against a soldier's standard, but against real humans.  And the most boring part of gym class was doing exercises, and the best part was playing games.  Games where your actions affected my actions and vice versa,  Games where if you can't outrun or overpower an opponent, there's plenty of room for team strategy.

I'd like to see Super Mario World Footballers, with Soccer Football, (a perfectly cromulent term because Germany called it Socher Fussball when the World League of American Football was around, just so people don't ask, "Welches Fussball?") American Football, Australian Football, and Rugby.

unicorn tongue. There's no way you typed that all on the Wii U. The keyboard on it is painful to use for more than a long sentence.

Compare that to typing it on an Xbox One, left left, left, down, A,  all for one letter.   It's easier.  Compared to an actual keyboard, you're right.  I just didn't have access to a computer at the time.

How is the Seville Ohio area?  I checked out your site, pretty interesting stuff.

 

Welcome aboard and enjoy your time here.

Seville is a very small town in Medina county, one county southwest of the county Cleveland is in, and one county west of the county containing Akron Ohio.  It's been cold and snowy for the past few months until recently.  It's real close to what was at one time the world's busiest truck stop, on the intersection of I-76 and I-71, until the intersection was improved.  Looks like enough people missed the I-76 West to I-71 North/South Off/Onramp.