Yay I got one.
Had to go through a bit of trouble to get one but I'm now the proud owner of one (out of, it seems, 10.000 in Holland?) Nintendo Wii. And Play, and Zelda.
I'm somewhat in the middle about the whole thing to be honest. Don't get me wrong, some of the sports are catchy, half the play games cranked all of us up (especially duckhunt and the cowriding...). Zelda is awesome. But the whole Wii concept... well I don't know.
For one, I thought the controllers were bluetooth. But now it seems they're "just" IR (ok, maybe I could've known that by reading the specs beforehand). The range of the whole thing is rather disappointing as well.
You cannot recallibrate the aiming of the wiimotes. You can only set the thing below or above the tv. Well what if I beam my wii on a 2 by 2 wall? Then what?
Anyways...
I noticed there's a SD bay. That's just a feat waiting to be exploited... :)
On the plus-side, the controllers do really respond well. The games are implemented good (although why was it that I only catched fish that gave me -50 while a friend was catching up to 1100 points :s).
I wonder though, what's stopping sony and microsoft from developing these controllers and design games for them. It's not really a console feature, just the controller "an addon".
Also, even though these new games are cool and I'm all for the better interaction while playing a game, sometimes you just want to sit down and play a game. I fear that there will be no mind-numbing games on the wii that allow you to just sit quiet...
Anyways, the wii rox, but I'm a little surprised at a few of the implementationdetails.
