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I got a Wii
Samstag:
The Wii was the big hit of the New Year's party last night. Four of us owned one, everyone else was trying it out for the first time. I think every one of them is strongly considering buying one now.
And that's just from Wii Sports. We never really got around to anything else.
I thought for sure we'd have a Wiimote go through the TV during bowling. It was missed by inches several times during enthusiastic follow-throughs.
AlanS17:
--- Quote from: Samstag on January 01, 2007, 11:50:23 am ---The Wii was the big hit of the New Year's party last night. Four of us owned one, everyone else was trying it out for the first time. I think every one of them is strongly considering buying one now.
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Either all of our friends are as big of dorks as we are or Nintendo really is on to something here. It was the big deal at our party too.
ChadTower:
These stories are making me reconsider picking one up any time soon. My living room is small and I have no desire to accidentally punch one of my sons (or wife) in the head. I'd also rather not fire a controller through the 50g aquarium a few feet from the TV. The turtles would be a little ticked (and 50 gallons of salmonella water on your living room carpet is bad).
AlanS17:
Well I'm happy to announce that my controller doesn't appear to be any worse for the wear after I slammed it into the coffee table.
When I first hit the table, I split the controller open. The gyros stopped responding. However, after restarting the machine and the controller, everything seems to be working properly again (minus the little chunk of plastic now missing from the front of the controller after I snapped it back together).
I'll still be using that one as player 2 from now on. I don't think I'll bother returning it to the store, though. It ought to be ok.
I've found that Wii Sports gets the controller moving around more so than the other games. I can bum on the couch while playing Zelda or even Super Monkey Ball (for most of the mini games). It's just the nature of Wii Sports to be up and moving around. That's the game most people are playing when they break stuff.
Samstag:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 01, 2007, 12:27:55 pm ---
These stories are making me reconsider picking one up any time soon. My living room is small and I have no desire to accidentally punch one of my sons (or wife) in the head. I'd also rather not fire a controller through the 50g aquarium a few feet from the TV. The turtles would be a little ticked (and 50 gallons of salmonella water on your living room carpet is bad).
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Other than two people getting a little too carried away with their bowling swing, we didn't have any problems at all. We had 8-10 adults (of varying levels of intoxication) packed into a small room with a small TV. Children might be another story.