Because you're not into that whole gym-membership-for-$300 thing anyway, right?
Speaking strictly for myself, Scanner Brian, I'd rather make a one-time payment of $90 for the upcoming Wii Fit game and actually enjoy working out. There's nothing more unappealing to me than paying a monthly membership to go work out after work with all the other embarrassed unfit folk who won't look me in the eye, lest I'm judging them telepathically.
We'll stick to Wii Boxing and, starting next month, all of the following... in the privacy of our own homes:
Yoga, push ups, aerobics, heading soccer balls (!), hula hooping (!!), ski jumping (wouldn't the landing break our ankles?), jogging, tightrope walking, and-- bizarrely-- snowboarding. [via Wikipedia]
How the hell does all that work, you ask? It's the new Balance Board, which looks like so...
...get it now? It's just like the State of the Art Wiimote (i.e. lightsaber for use in "LEGO Star Wars," the world's funnest game) you've been hearing so much about (Google "People Let Go Of Wiimotes And Smash Their $3,000 Plasma TVs" and see what comes up), the same Wiimote which is being pirated by the dark overlords at XBOX, thus soon rendering all of Nintendo obsolete. (Sorry for getting carried over into geekdom for a minute there.)
Then again, we're probably too poor to pick this up anytime during the rest of the Bush presidency, even after considering it a paltry $90 investment in our health and greater well-being. Sad.