{"id":9502,"date":"2019-09-09T16:01:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T06:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=9502"},"modified":"2019-09-09T16:01:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T06:01:25","slug":"nintendo-just-cant-leave-fitness-products-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/nintendo-just-cant-leave-fitness-products-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo just can&#8217;t leave fitness products alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ring Fit Adventure Initial Trailer - Nintendo Switch\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AdoVBbZ0Z9o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A video posted by Nintendo of America reveals a new, circular, accessory for the Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo ring and strap look very similar to [late-night] cable TV exercise products&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What the hell is this thing Nintendo? If WiiFit wasn&#8217;t a horrible enough mistake how does your Joy-Circle in any way win people over?<\/p>\n<p>The accompanying video is a next level in marketing-BS of people and families getting around this thing.<\/p>\n<p>If this were any closer to April I&#8217;d say it was a leaked April Fools and any minute now Chuck Norris would jump out from behind the sofa.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently more info is dropping on Friday (Aussie time), but does anyone care other than to laugh at it? I&#8217;m genuinely interested to know!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/checkpointgaming.net\/news\/2019\/09\/nintendo-announces-exercise-ring-for-switch-this-is-not-a-joke\/\">Nintendo announces exercise ring for Switch&#8230; this is not a joke. &#8211; Checkpoint &#8211; Checkpoint<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A video posted by Nintendo of America reveals a new, circular, accessory for the Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":9504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1452,193],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9505,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502\/revisions\/9505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}