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Quell kicked my bum harder than Ring Fit, but is there space for a new gaming fitness obsession?
During Lockdown, the only thing more scarce than flour was Switch fitness game Ring Fit Adventure. It was the perfect t…
And it's not just Nintendo: companies like Peloton, with its uber-expensive exercise bike and integrated workout platform, have shown people will pay significant amounts of money to gamify their fitness needs, and it's into this exact space a new challenger has arrived. Not everyone has a PC near their TV, which is something I find misleading about the Quell promotional material, but in the company's defence, as a group of the founders and employees explain to me, the system requirements are designed to be low enough for Shardfall to run on laptops - old ones, even. The subscription ostensibly enables fitness stat tracking and connectivity features with other players - leaderboards and things - but since you don't have a choice but to pay for it, it's not really an added value proposition.
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