For your Njoyment: the first third-party Balance Board

by Chris Greenhough { Aug 1st 2008 at 5:32PM }

The first third-party Balance Board has appeared over at Amazon's UK site, complete with a price of £64.99 and a release date of September 12th. Handily, it features markings to tell you where your feet need to go (in case you forgot), and a tiny LCD display, which presumably informs you just how hideously overweight you are, and thus how ashamed you should feel when in public. It's being made by a company called Njoy, and is known as the "G-Board Balance Board."

Pleased as we are to see increased options in the Balance Board arena, we foresee two problems with this. One: as Nintendo's official Balance Board is already a superbly constructed piece of kit, it's going to take a Herculean effort for the G-Board to beat it on build quality; foot markers and a miniscule LCD panel might not be enough. Two: £64.99?! As we recall, the official model is only £5 more, and comes with a damn good game.

[Via Balance Board Blog]

Tags: balance-board, g-board, njoy, third-party, uk, wii-fit

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Feba @ Aug 1st 2008 5:39PM

Not to mention basically the ONLY game worth having a Balance Board for right now. Oh, and all of the third party accessories which are likely only going to fit the first party board (see: Nyko charger)

Why would anyone want this?

eddy @ Aug 1st 2008 6:13PM

Looks like there's a speaker built in too. Weird.

Magnus @ Aug 1st 2008 6:16PM

I'd really like a Balance Board without Wii Fit, but at a decent price: in Argentina it costs 280 dollars! And even if it were at only 90 dollars, I still wouldn't buy it because I don't want Wii Fit, just the board.

Don @ Aug 1st 2008 6:33PM

It might be easier to find than the Wii Fit balance board.

Also, there's We Ski, if people really want that game without Wii Fit.

SoshiKitai @ Aug 1st 2008 10:02PM

I heard that We Ski wasn't as good as it should be with the Wii Balance Board.
Unless of course, you've tried it yourself and have a different opinion.

In that case, I'd LOVE to hear it. (I wanted to get We Ski... but with bad Balance-Board reviews, I had to push it down my list for later)

zchry @ Aug 3rd 2008 2:38PM

I'm not sure if it's that good or not, but if it helps, my local Toys R Us (which has almost no customers) was sold out.

zchry @ Aug 1st 2008 7:27PM

Don't forget Wii Music, either.

Also, why does it have a calculator screen? Isn't showing your weight the whole point of that silly Wii thing you have to use with it?

I saw the picture and thought that it must be a knockoff non-Wii, regular scale and that the screen/speaker combo was to tell you you're fat. Instead, the screen/speaker/Wii combo can tell you you're fat!