Ut prosim

Touch

Wii: First thoughts

by: Ross

I have a Wii. It took standing in a line for eight hours Saturday night (until Sunday morning) to get one (in the freezing cold), but I got one. Wolf, I saw your brother there. He has a massive dog.

Here are some initial thoughts on the Wii:

  • The position/orientation sensor of the Wiimote is awesome. The best demo of this is Baseball on Wiisports. The onscreen bat behaves just like you would expect it to. You can even “waggle” it around pre-swing like they do “in the pros.” After playing around a bit with it I am convinced you could make a kickass sword fighting game. The other great thing about the position/orientation sensor is it is radio based, so you don’t need to have the Wiimote pointed at anything in particular.
  • The pointer sensor of the Wiimote is “ok.” I mean it works great, but it is infrared. So if you want it to work while laying on the couch you have to make sure your two big dogs don’t walk infront of you while you are trying to use the boomerang to collect some hearts and rupees. This will be frustrating. I think they want me to sit directly in front of the TV — I am too lazy for this.
  • There were lots of ladies in line for the Wii. It seems like Nintendo’s push to bring in non-traditional gamers is working. My wife personally loves WiiSports Tennis.
  • I really really wish the Weather Channel and News Channel were up and working. Wikipedia says that those will be up on Dec. 20th and Jan. 27th respectively.
  • Speaking of Channels the Internet Channel (ie. Opera Browser) comes out sometime in June. SIGH SO FAR AWAY.

I’m not really going to talk about the games because I don’t want to ruin anything for anyone. But yeah. Nintendo = my boyfriend.

Technorati Tags:

Comments.

Jump to comment form

  1. Man, I want to play this so hard. But i know that if I got a wii and I got zelda, I would cease to exist as a human being.

    — RMSzero | @

  2. Looking forward to reading more about the Wii and some of the games you pick up.

    Have you seen the video about the rejected Wii games? Good stuff:

    Rejected Wii Games

    — Tripp Fenderson | @

  3. i wish people could make custom channels like you can make custom dashboard widgets in osx. that would be sweet. that’s all.

    — midas | @

  4. man i am so jealous.

    — J in Ric | @

  5. I can’t tell if you are being sarcastic or not ; )

    — MaxPower | @

  6. (everyone should look at the guys in the center of the massive dog picture. amazing)

    — Wolf | @

  7. (Hahah yeah aren’t those guys awesome? WTF are they doing there?)

    — MaxPower | @

  8. oh no…its genuine. i am just gettting a gamecube… *sigh*

    — J in Ric | @

  9. (i don’t know, but i just wanted to continue the parenthesis conversation…)

    — Wolf | @

  10. Silly question: Wii Tennis makes you swing the Wiimote like a tennis raquet. Why not actually go out and play tennis?

    It’s a silly question because I still love emulated old Atari 2600 games online and I guess I could take two blocks and make them chase each other the living room and get the same affect as 98% of the Atari games.

    That said, did you guys notice screen shot from an eBay PS3 auction. Ill, plain ill.

    — grs | @

  11. I spent 10 years working in the animal health industry, 2 of which were focused on breeders and show dogs. Quite a few interesting characters in that business. :)

    — Tripp Fenderson | @

  12. Humphrey aspires to be that dog… and hopefully one day I’ll be the colonial-looking dude

    #1) Check me out, back on Haduken
    #2) This whole wii thing is infinitely fun, especially making a hitler mii and boxing him to death
    #C) I totally know what you mean about large dogs walking in front of the sensor bar - and isn’t that boomerang useful?

    — wolf++ | @

  13. I got to play with a Wii for the first time this week at my brother-in-law’s apartment. I was impressed. It was a lot of fun, and very addicting. Max, if you have some seemingly random VT student who is your friend it’s my brother-in-law… we were experimenting and added your number.

    — Daniel | @

  14. I need to have his number in order for us to be friends so post in on here and I’ll add him.

    Wolf ++ you post your number on here too.

    — MaxPower | @

  15. 8 hours?!? Really? “Unbelievable!”

    — vanimal3000 | @

  16. I mean, I played it for 5 minutes at Ross’s place the other day. I still dream about it, you know. Every time I close my eyes I see “Wii Sports” on the back of my eyelids, like a beautiful, captivating, vision of heaven. It beckons me, is the thing. Like a siren.

    — RMSzero | @

  17. Yo! My Wii number = 8205 1722 4202 6093

    What’s YOURs? You have to check out my Kim Jong Il, Hitler, and Black Santa miis.

    — wolf++ | @

  18. I totally stole your idea and made a Hitler mii.

    Also: 1284842298781575

    — MaxPower | @

  19. Seriously, why did everyone get the same idea about making a Hitler Mii??

    Mine is named 8ball.

    — BK | @

  20. 1770 1406 1924 0812

    That’s me!

    — Tess | @

Comment.