@zeromous, I see your point, but I believe that he (deftangel) is saying is that he is betting on the Balance Board not becoming available without buying the current package of Wii Fit and the Balance Board (or that if it does become available, it still makes more sense to buy the Wii Fit package due to little difference in pricing between Balance Board alone and Balance Board with Wii Fit). If that is the case, and new games supporting the use of the Balance Board continue to be announced/released, then the Balance Board will remain in demand - leading to more Wii Fit sales. Simply, people are looking at the need for the hardware side of the Wii Fit bundle to drive most sales - not the software - and that the Balance Board peripheral will become an integral part of the Wii platform.
This is why I posted an article recently of the first 3rd party manufacturer coming out with their own Balance Board (that obviously does not include Wii Fit). If 3rd party manufacturers are able to bring out a quality, lower cost version of the Balance Board than the current Wii Fit package, then the sales that may have been gained from people buying Wii Fit for the Balance Board would be lost or decreased in number - leading to a lower lifetime sales for Wii Fit. At this time however, neither Nintendo or a 3rd party has released or announced a Balance Board that will be sold by itself without Wii Fit and that is just as good as quality as the current Balance Board and cheaper than the current Wii Fit package.
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I see your point, but I believe that he (deftangel) is saying is that he is betting on the Balance Board not becoming available without buying the current package of Wii Fit and the Balance Board (or that if it does become available, it still makes more sense to buy the Wii Fit package due to little difference in pricing between Balance Board alone and Balance Board with Wii Fit). If that is the case, and new games supporting the use of the Balance Board continue to be announced/released, then the Balance Board will remain in demand - leading to more Wii Fit sales. Simply, people are looking at the need for the hardware side of the Wii Fit bundle to drive most sales - not the software - and that the Balance Board peripheral will become an integral part of the Wii platform.
This is why I posted an article recently of the first 3rd party manufacturer coming out with their own Balance Board (that obviously does not include Wii Fit). If 3rd party manufacturers are able to bring out a quality, lower cost version of the Balance Board than the current Wii Fit package, then the sales that may have been gained from people buying Wii Fit for the Balance Board would be lost or decreased in number - leading to a lower lifetime sales for Wii Fit. At this time however, neither Nintendo or a 3rd party has released or announced a Balance Board that will be sold by itself without Wii Fit and that is just as good as quality as the current Balance Board and cheaper than the current Wii Fit package.
I hope this helped.