" Just leaked on the Xbox Fitness landing page, which is down as of this moment, is a new fitness service for the Xbox One. The video, below, gives you all the important details. Xbox Fitness will use the Kinect 2.0 and will be able to track your heart-rate and the ‘effort’ you exert. Featured in the game will be celebrity trainers such as Tracy Anderson, Tony Horton, Jillian Michaels, and Shaun T. The intense tone of the video really shows how Xbox is trying to corner the market for exercise gaming, and it looks extremely promising. I can’t help but feel sorry for the Wii Fit, which better look out because there’s a new player in the game and it’s bringing the heat." -Matthew
Stevivor -- "Finishing up our recent conversation with Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox, we put him through a lightning round-style series of questions we affectionately dubbed, 'What would it take?'"
Most likely another lie like when they said xbox one cant work without kinect. That they cant reverse drm policies. That xbox one exclusives wont be on pc and other lies. Probably its just a ruse to encroach on gamers freedom to own their games and a way to start to slowly implement drm again
It would be really cool If they could get it to work offline. It worked really well with kinect v2 and my friends and I enjoyed doing many of the workout routines.
You'd think MS would throw some money to these license holders so they could keep this game going, they've plenty money, so why didn't they? Might have been a simple business decision that it wasn't making enough money for them, nah, can't be, MS isn't like that, they are consumer friendly and not all about the money!
Nicholas Simonovski and Andy Gray, both of Stevivor -- "I can say with 100% certainty now that I will not be going digital anytime soon. The reason for me no longer considering digital game purchases is the decision Microsoft made last week concerning Xbox Fitness. For those who didn’t see it, Microsoft announced that it would be ceasing support for the application. On June 27th they removed it from the Xbox Store, not a huge deal as those who have purchased games in the past were still able to play them if they were de-listed."
Stevivor -- "Xbox Fitness fans have taken to Microsoft’s Xbox Voice website in an effort to keep the app alive."
This is one reason to like MS, they give users a voice and they actually listen to their customers. If they see people want a service they can keep it going or add it in. That's why we got BC and background music. Maybe they can release it as a download/retail disc?
This is pretty cool!!
that was pretty damn awesome I'll admit. This could be the thing to get many people back in shape. Working out in the comfort of your own home and interactively through Xbox sounds great.
The tracking, all that. Innovative indeed. Can't wait to try this out.
Beachbody got a nice check from Microsoft I'm sure. But inaccurate heart rate isn't going to help much. However if it keeps stats and has worksheets that could be nice especially if you can use voice recognition to fill them out. Prob not worth paying a second sub for especially if you already own the workouts.
Time to get that bikini body I always dreamed of.