I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw this. On one hand I was thinking “This can’t be real”, but on the other hand I was thinking “This shit is funny as hell!!!!!!” The Interwebs have led yours truly to a forum thread titled Disgusted With The Wii-Fit. A poster of this forum started a thread that goes as follows:

“My DSD came round this weekend and we let her play on our wii-fit. We have all laughed and joked about being told that we’re fat and need to lose weight but I was gobsmacked when it told her that she is overweight. She is a healthy 10 year old girl with an active lifestyle, she swims and dances every week. She is 92lbs and 4ft9” tall and there is not an inch of fat on her. She is solidly built but not fat. She was devasted to be called fat and we had to work hard to convince her that she isn’t. I know it is just a game but seriously we already have to worry about young girls starving themselves to look like the magazine models and now we have a game that tells them their fat. This to me is very worrying and I hope that is doesn’t cause emotional problems for any youngsters out there”

Now according to G4, Wii-Fit clearly states that their BMI calculations often don’t apply to children. So even though it seems that Nintendo has it’s bases covered, it still could become a PR nightmare for the money making machine that’s trying to keep the family that plays together…in shape together.