Wii Peripherals A-Plenty
The Nintendo Wii has been in the retail market for about 2 months now and Nintendo couldn’t be happier. Crazy sales resulted in massive profits over the holiday season but you already knew that. What you might not know is that a nice amount of Nintendo’s sales were not just for the console and its software. At launch Nintendo had many 1st party peripherals available for purchase including the WiiMote, nunchuck and the “Classic” controller. These items flew off store shlves and were sold out all across North America. Now with every console it is only a matter of time before 3rd party companies take the initiative and develop their own controllers and peripherals for a given console which are often sold at a lower price point than their 1st party brethren. Well Nintendo consoles are no stranger to 3rd party peripherals and the Wii is no exception.
An inside source from Wal-Mart reported on GameTrailer’s forums about a 3rd party WiiMote and nunchuck being made by peripheral manufacturer MadCatz.
I personally wouldn’t recommend this one; in fact I would stay away from MadCatz all together. Their products are often flimsy, poor quality and have a very different feel to them than their 1st party counterparts.
Source: Wii Fanboy
Also a report is coming out of Japan that you can purchase little attachments for your WiiMote. Used in conjunction with Wii Sports these little add-ons don’t really add any functionality to the WiiMote but act like a role playing element. Allowing you to give your WiiMote the appearance of a Baseball bat, tennis racket etc.
Source: Video Games Blogger
Last but not least we find an influx of console specific SD memory cards the first was a 1GB card made by ScanDisk and licensed by Nintendo. I can’t see why you would go out of your way to pick on of these cards. Any standard SD memory card will work with the Wii. This past week at CES memory developer Transcend announced that they will be releasing 2 GB, SD cards for gaming that can be used with either the PS3 or Nintendo Wii.
Source: Go Nintendo
This is just the beginning of this generation’s peripherals. So lets get ready to spend spend spend
January 16th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
As much as i love to root for the underdog, my past 22 years of gaming experience has lead me to belive, due to time after frustrating time of thinking i got a deal by saving 10 dollars and getting the “other” brand, and two weeks or so later finding out that its so glitchy that i should of just went with the name brand.
January 16th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Looks great! Much more comfortable than the original one, hope it comes with rechargeable batteries.
January 22nd, 2007 at 2:18 pm
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