So new Year is nearly here and one of the most popular things people decide to do is to join the gym. Well I can tell you that it’s pointless. Joining a gym is boring and after a few months you will give up.

Lets look at the costs of some gym memberships:

- Fitness First £45 – £70 a month = £540 – £840 a year
- David Lloyd £70-85 a month = £840 – £1,020 a year

And that’s before you pay out for the gym gear to work out in.

A better option is to try something like:

- Xbox 360 with kinect
- Nintendo Wii with Wii fit

You can get an Xbox 360 with kinect for under £300 and will give you hours of fun in your own home. Even better for an extra £50 you can get EA Active Sports 2, which will give you a heart rate monitor and a 9 week workout program, with plenty of activities that will get you up and running.

The Wii will cost you around £160 and £75 for the Wii fit plus. This will also give you plenty of hours of fun for all the family and help you keep track of your progress and overall weight loss.

Nintendo Wii _ Wii Fit plus
Total cost from around £235 (extra controllers may be purchased)
Advantages are that you can weigh yourself on the Wii Fit.
Disadvantage is that the board can be restricting, but works very well with the controllers to monitor your full work out.

Xbox 360 with Kinect
Total cost from under £300 (£350 including EA sports Active) to be fully up and running.
Advantages are that it will monitor your full workout totally wireless and will track your every movement. Including your heart rate to track how well you are doing.

EA Sports Active is also available for the Wii.

Check out the following places for some cool package deals:

The Hut
Game.co.uk
GameStation

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So Microsoft have announced a new X-Box 360 and also finally given a release date of “Project Natal” renamed Kinect at E3 2010.  Before we go in to too much information the release date is what you are probably interested in first:

New X-Box 360 release date – 16th July 2010
Project Natal now called Kinect release date – November 2010

You can pre-order now from Game << click here to pre order now >>

New X-Box 360

What is new with this xbox then?
What’s in the Box?
Xbox 360 S Console (Gloss Black)
Xbox 360 S 250GB Removable Hard Drive
Xbox 360 Black Wireless Controller
Xbox 360 Black Headset
Xbox 360 Composite A/V cable (Standard Definition)
One Month Xbox LIVE Gold Membership
1 Year Limited Express Warranty

Design and Ports

First thing you will notice is the new sleek looking design of the actual box.  It’s not black and shiny.  With it’s new look we think it certainly looks impressive. It still has all the normal connections in the hidden front panel and the usual usb, HDMI and optical ports on the back.

The new design is also a lot quieter (according to reports we have read).

Storage

There is now a 250gb Hard Drive as standard, so you can store more movies, games and music on your HDD ready for play back.

Connectivity

The console comes with the normal wireless controller connectivity and you can still use your old wireless controllers that you have.

Now though the new xbox 360 has built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi meaning that streaming your music and movies will be much quicker.

Kinect ready

The new 360 has a dedicated and specialised port ready for you to plug in your Kinect controller, where you are the controller. This will require you to buy the sensor and also have 175mb worth of free memory.

Kinect

Microsoft originally showed off a version of Kinect back at E3 2009, so it has been a long time coming.  Working on feedback and accuracy they are now ready to release this out to the public.  The release date is scheduled to be November 2010.

Here is the promo video from xbox

In our opinion, if this works as well as all the promotional videos it could see the end of the Nintendo Wii. With plenty of options for games developers to bring out the usual Dance games, Fitness games, driving games and also fighting games, We think that Kinect could be a big hit for Christmas 2010. It will certainly be on my shopping list and to fund our purchase we will be selling our Nintendo Wii ASAP.

Useful Links
Pre order and Buy from
Game.co.uk
or
Play.com

Sell your items on:
E-Bay

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