Wii Fit (Wii)Miyamoto Wanted Wii Fit To Weigh Pets, TooKotaku - April 24, 2008
Submitted by alexanderpas (952)
at 12:42PM PST on April 25, 2008
Nintendo design boss Shigeru Miyamoto had wanted to include a mode that would allow players to weigh their pets. He wasn't able to include it in the Japanese version, but in the North American version, available May 19th, players will receive a message informing them that if they weigh themselves while holding their pets, then weigh themselves again separately and subtract the two, the difference will tell them how much their pet weighs.
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In theory, you could do manual calcuation like you described, but that is a hassle.
If they system can also keep track (history) of your pets weight, isn't that also nice ? (I know that it can keep track of user weight history in Japan version, but not sure about the pet weight).