Peter Moore has revealed that EA is working on a new Balance Board fitness game for the Wii. It’s going to be a bit more strenuous than Nintendo’s own effort too. Of course it’ll be nowhere near as strenuous as actually trying to locate a copy of Wii Fit on the high street, but that’s a different matter, right?

“We think we have a role to play with that mum,” he announced at a three day EA Sports showcase in Vancouver. “…The kids have gone to school, she’s got 45 minutes on her own, the Wii is there, it’s the first console she’s ever liked because she can do things herself. And we’re working on stuff, trying to work out how we can use EA Sports applications there.”

According to Moore the new game will launch under the EA Sports Freestyle label later this year and will follow in the ‘exercise can be fun’-type ethos of Wii Fit but with more of an eye on the hyper-energetic we (and our mums) apparently like to exercise:

"I need to have a point of difference. We also need to make sure we're delivering something that's truly exercise. I'll call (Wii Fit) more eastern fitness, where it senses weight and balance, like Tai-Chi. It's more about holistic fitness. I don't think the board is going to take a pounding. We need to look more at Western fitness in which I can actually be moving and start to sweat a little bit, and that's what we're working on right now,” he says.

Sounds tickety-boo to us, and if anyone can do a good job of such a game it’s EA. Now where did we put those legwarmers…?