Becoming more popular in today's health-oriented culture, pedometers are a simple tool that tracks the amount of steps a person takes. Given the health applications of the tool, a Wii Fit sequel seems to be a likely fit for it, though nothing is officially known about the tool or its applications.
Given the fact that the pedometer itself has no external display, it seems unlikely that it will function as a standalone product and will likely need to interact with some other software in order to retrieve the information the pedometer stores.
UPDATE: It's not WiiFit that the pedometer is intended for, but the recently revealed DS game Personal Trainer: Walking. The pedometer made an appearance in a DS highlights video that Nintendo presented at their Japanese Fall Media Summit. It will interact with the Personal Trainer: Walking software, keeping track of the user's walking activity during their daily activities.
Some Nintendo products available this fall for Nintendo DS include:
* Personal Trainer™: Cooking: This title launches on Nov. 24 as the first in Nintendo’s new Personal Trainer series. Personal Trainer: Cooking includes more than 200 recipes from around the world and transforms the Nintendo DS into an electronic, interactive cookbook, complete with a glossary of terms and even instructional videos. In 2009, the Personal Trainer series will expand with Personal Trainer™: Math, a collection of basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division drills based on the Kageyama method. Meanwhile, Personal Trainer™: Walking will introduce a wireless pedometer, letting consumers not only track every step they take, but also turn walking into interactive entertainment.
