Hasta La Gadget!

If the Wii has Wii Fit, then Nintendo’s smaller handheld console, the DS, now has the “Walk With Me!” fitness game that encourages walking as an outdoor activity. The game comes bundled with a couple of pedometers dubbed as “Activity Meters” that players have to bring with them wherever they go. These pedometers are not much bigger than a coin and will measure your activity throughout one day. After you get through a week, you can transfer the data on the pedometer via wireless connection to the Nintendo DS.

Your activities are the key to unlocking the mini-games in “Walk With Me!” One example according to Telegraph UK is a mini-game called Walk the World that lets you collect geography trivia every time you accomplish a required number of steps. The Activity Meters could store data for as much as four users, so with two of them per game pack, eight people could share the experience. Nintendo’s “Walk With Me!” will be launched on February 20, 2009 across Europe.