Namco Bandai announced today that their "pun-missing" We Ski will find its way to American shelves in Spring of 2008. The title, which allows gamers to use their personalized Miis to ski down snowy slopes using the Wii Balance Board, brings "a whole new level of realism" to the genre.

The Wii Fit bundle has already sold absurdly well in Japan, shipping over 1.2 million units since its release just a few months ago. It looks like Nintendo has, yet again, found a strange, unfulfilled niche and filled it with an interesting peripheral. America will see Wii Fit launching in a few months, on May 19th.

I really don’t know what to think about the Wii Balance Board. The hardcore gamer in me is screaming, writing in the knowledge that Nintendo spent time and money to make a DDR pad with two buttons instead of developing new IPs or expanding on franchises that need some more sequels. The Wii lover in me is giggling and imagining how much fun I will have balancing and pretending people are throwing things at me that I need to dodge. In the end, I will spend the $80 to buy it like every other sucker and sit quietly while companies do what they always do when Nintendo pulls this crap: nothing.

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