EA Sports Active sells great; EA announces expansion pack

If something sells good, make sure you sell more! That's more or less what Electronic Arts is trying to do with a newly announced expansion pack to the recently released EA Sports Active for Wii.

EA Sports announced today that EA Sports Active has eclipsed 600,000 units sold through world-wide at retail in less than two weeks on the market. EA Sports Active, which hit stores on May 19th in North America and by May 22nd worldwide*, is a virtual fitness product developed exclusively for the Wii and offers the benefit of a personal trainer in a box with customizable workouts that can be done from the comfort of home.

"We're delighted by the overwhelming response to EA Sports Active," said Peter Moore, President, EA Sports. "This is, by far, the most successful launch of any Wii title in EA history, and even more encouraging is that our second week sales worldwide were as strong as our first week. Not only are we off to a great start at retail, but the feedback from people who are getting off the couch, breaking a sweat and using EA Sports Active to support living a healthier lifestyle, is that it is changing their lives."

EA Sports will expand the genre this holiday season with a new expansion pack for EA Sports Active, designed to work with the product just released. The expansion pack will bring the EA Sports Active workout to the next level by adding more challenge and variety, and users will keep their heart pumping through interactive circuit workouts featuring 30 brand new activities and exercises that target the upper and lower body, as well as cardio.

New to the EA Sports Active expansion pack will be an emphasis on core exercises including curl ups, crunch & punches, and a warm up/cool down feature. Sports activities will include step aerobics, an obstacle course, squash and water skiing, while a new emphasis on combinations will populate the upper and lower body exercises. An all-new presentation will bring users to the tropics and will immerse them in warm weather activities in a picturesque setting. The product will also feature the Six-Week Challenge - another step in the journey towards better health and fitness with new daily workouts that ramp up in intensity each week. This personalized full body challenge will give users a new customizable weekly schedule and a weekly check-in with the virtual trainer to track calorie, weight and workout goals.

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