While a significant number of you out there won’t be picking up Wii Fit until its North American release on May 19th (and even more of you have to wait until second shipments…), Wii Fit is already wreaking havoc and causing psychological damage elsewhere in the world.

My DSD [relative] 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 4′9″ tall and there is not an inch of fat on her. She is solidly built but not fat. She was [devastated] 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.

It’s just a game, right? I get the feeling that Wii Fit is going to cause a rise in anorexia in little kids and lawsuits from angry parents. Way to go, Nintendo.

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via Destructoid