The Wii Fit is now available for pre-order. The retail price is currently listed at $89.99 on Amazon.

Used together players will experience an extensive array of fun, dynamic and surprisingly challenging activities, including aerobics, yoga, muscle stretches and balance oriented games. The focus of these activities is towards providing a “core” workout, a popular exercise method that emphasizes slower, controlled motions, but it’s the fun approach to fitness of Wii Fit that will keep players hooked on fitness for years to come.

The Wii Fit will be released May 19th.

The 2008 Game Developers Conference is this week, and some big announcements have come out of the Nintendo camp. Namely, when Wii Ware and the Wii Fit will be released in the U.S. Wii Ware, which will allow you to download full Wii games from the Wii Shop channel, debuts its first releases on May 12. The Wii Fit will be out a week later, on May 19.

Keep up to date on upcoming Wii releases with our Release Dates page, which we update weekly.

Here at WeKnowWii, we’re into making our Wii gaming experience top-notch by making YOUR Wii gaming experience top-notch. This week, we purchased a Wii Component Video Cable from SuperMediaStore.com. What we should have done was fork out the $39 bucks for one of the Monster Cable Brand component video cables, but we wanted to see what the difference in quality was with the cheap ones.

Well Wii Fans, we were quite disappointed. There are a lot of grounding issues in this component cable. This issue can be fixed with a little solder and some time – unfortunately, time is something we aren’t surplussing in mass supply.

This is, however, good news for our WeKnowWii.com fans – we are giving away this brand new Wii Component Video Cable for FREE! If you comment on our blog, we will enter you in the contest for this cable. Who knows – perhaps it will work perfectly for you! Make sure that you comment before February 8, 2008 by noon. The winner will be contacted via email, and shipping is on us.

Accessory company NYKO has produced a solution for a “problem” that apparently exists with Wii users – the really small cable that goes from the wiimote to the nunchuk. NYKO has created a wireless transmitter that takes that cable completely out of the loop and makes the Wii completely wireless. Once again, NYKO has brought  another innovative product to the world of Wii.  From the NYKO website:

The Cord-Free is a unique wireless adaptor for the Wii Nunchuk that easily converts your wired Nunchuk in to a wireless peripheral for your Wii remote. The ergonomic sleeve easily holds and organizes the Nunchuk, cable and batteries providing a compact, clean and convenient conversion system for the Nunchuk. Once the Nunchuk is inserted in the sleeve, you can now enjoy full wireless freedom with all your favorite Wii games without the hassle of any wires tethering your hands together.

Well, Wii Gamers, if you have the desire to take every single cable out of the loop between the player and the console, this new item from NYKO is your solution. What this writer has to ask about this new product, all of its awesomeness put aside: what kinds of excellent games are you playing that require no wire?

It’s party time and you picked up some extra Wiimotes for the shindig. How do you connect them to your system? Easy.

1. Turn on your Wii.
2. While you’re on the home screen, press any button on the remote. Did the four lights on your remote blink blue? If so, your remote is not synced with the system.
3. Press the 1 + 2 buttons at the same time. If you’ve synced before, this should solve your problem.
4. Lights still blinking blue? Open the small panel on the front of the Wii console near the power button.
5. Press the small red button inside the panel.
6. Open the battery panel on your remote.
7. Press the small red button inside the battery panel.
8. Only one light should be illuminated on your Wii remote. If not, repeat steps 5 and 7 until only one light remains.

Source: How to Sync a Wii Remote Controller

Have a question that we might know how to answer? Let us know.

Since the release of Wii Fit in Japan in December, over a million unit sales have been recorded. Due to this rapid sales stint in Japan, Wii Fit has proven to be one of the fastest selling games in this new generation of games and consoles.

Wii Fit is a first-of-its-kind type of game, with the main attraction being a balance-board type device that acts as the primary controller. The Wii Fit Balance Board controller is designed to determine your weight and center of gravity, and acts as the liaison between the Wii and a real workout.

There has been no concrete release date for the United States yet for Wii Fit; as soon as we know, you’ll know. You can sign up on Amazon to be notified of Wii Fit’s release and availability.

John Falcone at C|Net did an excellent article on some must-have accessories for the Wii. C|Net never lets the readers down with their unbiased opinions about products and services, and this article was no exception.

To paraphrase John, the eight must-have accessories for Wii:
Extra Wiimotes and Nunchuks – we all know the Wii is best served when playing head-to-head games with friends. Why not have some extra controllers on hand for those times when your pals are over? There is a package called Wi Play that has one extra remote and a bunch of games together. Find it here, at Amazon.

Rechargeable Batteries – the Wiimote has a tendency to drain the life from AA batteries with hard play. Instead of ponying up six bucks for a pack of AA, why not get some rechargeable and get back in the game at a moment’s notice?

GameCube Controllers – the Wii is backward-compatible with GameCube games, but you have to have the controller to play them. These run about $20 – $25. Kind of annoying? Perhaps. Absolutely necessary? Absolutely.

GameCube Memory Cards – another Wii reality for the backwards-compatibility of GameCube. You need this to save your GameCube games. It’s gonna run you about $25.

Wii Points Cards – from John’s article – “One of the big attactions of the Wii is its Virtual Console, which lets you purchase classic games that originally came from the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), the Super NES, the Nintendo 64, the Sega Genesis, and the TurboGrafx16.” Nintendo points currency exchange rate is 100 Wii points to the dollar, and can be purchased from the Wii console’s online store.

1 GB SD Cards – when you get close to filling up the console’s 512MB of onboard storage, you can use one of these to save your games and have extra space. Nintendo does have a brand, but any SD card will do.

Wireless Access Point – since the Wii has built-in wireless internet, it only makes sense to have either a wireless router or USB Wireless Access Point. Nintendo does sell a brand of USB wireless access points, but any one will do. We’re hooked up through a Linksys WRT54G router.

Wii Component Video Cable – The Wii won’t spit out HD graphics, but via the component video cable option, you can have 480P, DVD level graphics that look great – even on high-dollar LCD and plasma sets. To get 480P out of the Wii, you need to spend about $20 on the adaptor. (Note: Engadget and GamesSX Network had articles on making DIY component cables for the Wii.)

Thanks, John, for the great article!

Amazon has the NYKO Sensor Bar for $13.99 right now – this sensor bar just dropped $6 in price, and is getting decent reviews from players and enthusiasts. One of the more exceptional comments we’ve read is that NYKO’s Sensor Bar actually widens the “playable area” of your Wii setup, making for better reception in wider or deep rooms. Reviewers are also saying that the built-in timer function and on-indicator LED make this a great accessory.

One reviewer in particular commented about how he “stacked” this unit with his original unit, and created stellar reception from his Wii at sizable distances.