{"id":30521,"date":"2012-01-11T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30521"},"modified":"2012-01-11T16:22:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:22:23","slug":"wii-balance-board-awarded-obscure-guinness-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/30521-wii-balance-board-awarded-obscure-guinness-world-record","title":{"rendered":"Wii Balance Board awarded obscure Guinness World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has proudly announced that the Wii Fit Balance Board accessory has beaten out its rivals for the &#8220;best-selling personal weighing device&#8221; Guinness World Record &#8211; the highest accolade awarded to date in the booming and ultra competitive personal weighing device industry.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 32,114,428 Wii Balance Boards were sold worldwide between launch and November 2010, comprising 22,663,321 bundled with the original Wii Fit, and 9,451,107 bundled with Wii Fit Plus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe launch of Wii Fit with the Wii Balance Board revolutionised the way people got active at home, making it fun and easy to exercise in the comfort of their own living room,&#8221; said Laurent Fischer, Nintendo&#8217;s managing director of marketing and PR.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the Guinness World Record shows, sales of both Wii Fit and Wii Fit Plus have remained healthy since the day they first went on sale and, with Wii now having sold over 30 million units to consumers across Europe, Nintendo hopes this trend will remain strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dismissing speculation that the overwhelming majority of Wii Balance Boards were sold only to be instantly forgotten and left to gather dust in some dark corner of the attic, Nintendo&#8217;s grand high inquisitor Fictitious Madeupperson said, &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure why that&#8217;s even relevant, anyway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[James: And because we know the demographic brakdown of our readership, here is the original &#8220;Why every guy should buy their girlfriend Wii Fit&#8221;\u00a0 video for your viewing pleasure.]<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v31qxrXsxv0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"437\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Most girlfriend-centric Wii Fit usage videos uploaded to YouTube&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":30530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[31,73,1940,1939],"class_list":["post-30521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-nintendo","tag-active","tag-nintendo","tag-wii-balance-board","tag-wii-fit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30529,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30521\/revisions\/30529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}