Weirdness: Jackie Chan Backed A Motion-Controlled Fitness Console That Pre-Dated The Wii

Not really surprising. Jackie's game career was not as illustrious as his movie/singing one but he was in a surprisingly large number of games at one point. Plus China was anti outside consoles until recently.

<3 Jackie Chan <3

Let me guess, Nintendo sent its Ninja's out to destroy the competition before it had a chance to gain market share, thus giving Nintendo the chance to take over the world...

The aim, to build an army through regular daily routines while secretly hypnotising them through the creation of Miis, thus allowing Nintendo to call upon them at any given moment. 😝😝

Wow, I'm surprised. Some of the UI even looks like the Wii's. Jackie, get your lawyers on the phone!

I assume to obtain huge sales (anything) in china is to have Jackie Chan as the promoter

Jackie does what Nintendon't

Jackie does what Nintendon't

The boxing game makes me think of something that SNK could have made if they entered the motion control market.

I hate to say it but it looks like Nintendo maybe ripped quite a lot of that stuff off.

Depends on when each tech was first shown and subsequently released I'd say. Def the Wii Balance Board stuff didn't come until way down the line.

I wonder if he won that argument with his son.

Should have had the main picture be of Jackie Chan in Operation Condor. Haha.

Looks great, actually.

They're still making and selling these after so many years O___O
They sell them for $55 on their site now, though retailers still sell them for the original MSRP.
On eBay if you really wanted one you can still get a NEW one for just $24 or lower.

EDIT:Also I think it should be noted that 8 of the 9 engineers who originally founded this company worked on the NES.

@EngieBengie Nintendo is what Genesisn't

@Damo
Not really sure. I found 3 pages about it on Google, though there's probably more:
http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/pg00-xavix.htm#page=reviews
http://www.giantbomb.com/xavixport/3045-132/
http://www.thunderboltgames.com/feature/under-the-radar-the-xavixport

I still play Jackie Chan Stuntmaster on PS1, I love his films, Jackie Chan is my hero...

But getting fit is last on my list of things to do.

Actually looks kind of fun. The first time I saw it, was in a Toys R Us that isn't around anymore. The system was pricey at the time, and each game was almost a $100 or more, so it never really took off...wasn't even in the video game section in the store. Other than that, I've never seen commercials or advertisements for it, which is why it probably flopped. Even when I saw the Atari Jaguar in stores, I never saw one advertisement for it. Maybe nintendo will pick this up and buy them and get the games onto their next motion-controlled system for some retro action fun!!!!

I watched the video and it's actually better than I expected. It does some things better than Nintendo's offerings, like the fitness game allowing you to jump on the board. Considering how similar the menus look, it's pretty likely that Nintendo took inspiration from this console while designing Wii products.

@EngieBengie Actually he did more or less the same thing.

The PS2 EyeToy (among others) was also doing motion controls and fitness games before the Wii/Wii Fit, but it kind of gets conveniently forgotten...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeToy:_Kinetic

Sometimes it seems things get wiped from history if they don't quite fall in line with the whole "Nintendo innovated everything and everyone else copies them" thing.

Seems to me like the sole purpose of this video is to make fun of those Jackie Chan Fitness games. How unprofessional.
And btw: There was a Mortal Kombat a game on SNES...

@mikegamer Doesn't flow as well.