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Title: The One Question ...
Post by: RickPowers on September 14, 2006, 08:50:05 AM: So obvious Wii will ship in only White. OK, I can deal. But Nintendo is expecting us to create a "Mii" and download it to our own personal Wii-mote. So are they going to ship the Wii-mote in different colors so my wife and I can tell ours apart when they're sitting on the coffee table?
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Post by: wandering on September 14, 2006, 08:58:41 AM: Hopefully. I'd also settle for skins.
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Post by: Strell on September 14, 2006, 09:00:36 AM: Oh mans, I am gluing macaronis to mine.

And sprinkles!
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Post by: RickPowers on September 14, 2006, 09:02:10 AM: Perhaps we can get Casey to chew them into distinctive patterns.
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Post by: Smoke39 on September 14, 2006, 09:02:49 AM: Macaroni and sprinkles? Psh. Metallic purple spray paint.
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Post by: Strell on September 14, 2006, 09:03:48 AM: I'm putting that on the macaronis, bitch!
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Post by: BigJim on September 14, 2006, 09:06:53 AM: Pimping it up with gold leaf and beadazzler.
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Post by: Smoke39 on September 14, 2006, 09:07:53 AM: Paint the controller purple, and paint the macaroni pink. O:
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Post by: BigJim on September 14, 2006, 09:19:49 AM: Oh man, my dog would so NOT be a good smoogie woogie boy if he chewed a Wiimote.

You can find "His" and "Her" wrist straps from places that sell digital camera accessories, etc.

Or keychains with coiled cable.

Go nuts!
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Post by: Ian Sane on September 14, 2006, 09:21:15 AM: Identifying yourself by your controller kind of clashes with the old "come on over to my house to play games" method of doing things. Unless you're a loner a single controller is going to routinely get used by several people. No one is going to bring their own controller over if you already have four of them for example. This is kind of like Nintendo's fantasy world where everyone owns a GBA and a Cube link cable for connectivity games, though thankfully on a much smaller scale.

I also think it would be nicer to not bother with this Mii bullsh!t in exchange for controllers that don't cost more than a game. Ditch any download stuff regarding the controller since none of it makes any practical sense anyway and transfer those savings into the price. Ditch the speaker too if it can get the remote/nunchuk combined to $40 or under.
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Post by: Smash_Brother on September 14, 2006, 09:24:51 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: Ian Sane I also think it would be nicer to not bother with this Mii bullsh!t in exchange for controllers that don't cost more than a game. Ditch any download stuff regarding the controller since none of it makes any practical sense anyway and transfer those savings into the price. Ditch the speaker too if it can get the remote/nunchuk combined to $40 or under.

Agreed in full.

$180 for 3 extra Red Steel-capable controllers is nearly as much as the cost of the system.
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Post by: BigJim on September 14, 2006, 09:29:06 AM: I'm not crazy about the price either but does it have to fester into every thread?

Tell us how you're going to pimp your magic fun stick. Make it up if you must.
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Post by: wandering on September 14, 2006, 09:30:05 AM: I assume that stuff like the speaker and internal memory don't cost much. They're features that will make people go 'oh! look at this high tech! this is worth alot of money!' while being pretty trivial to implement.

I think you'll be suprised how much the speaker will do for the Wii, btw. It'll turn the heads of people who couldn't even begin to care less about costly high-def graphics.
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Post by: NWR_pap64 on September 14, 2006, 09:34:20 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: BigJim
I'm not crazy about the price either but does it have to fester into every thread?

Tell us how you're going to pimp your magic fun stick. Make it up if you must.

I agree with this as well. There is already a thread discussing Nintendo's pricing decisions.

I know people are annoyed by the pricing decision, but to keep it dragging in all the threads is annoying.
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Post by: vudu on September 14, 2006, 09:37:31 AM: I don't mind a white console, but I really wish the controller was black (or at least a dark color). I'm fairly anal about keeping my stuffin good condition and I know a white controller is going to get dirty (despite my best efforts, my Wavebird is starting to show signs of age).
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Post by: MaryJane on September 14, 2006, 09:39:47 AM: My one question is where iS the official launch liSt for thAlso saying $180 for 3 confrollerS iS just dumb the whole point of the personal controller and their marketing is for everyone to bring their own I'm only buying 1 extra everyone elsecan either sit and watch or buy their own Wii. Props to Nintendo for giving people more reasonst buy their product like every business tries tO do
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Post by: Ian Sane on September 14, 2006, 09:45:49 AM: "the whole point of the personal controller and their marketing is for everyone to bring their own I'm only buying 1 extra everyone elsecan either sit and watch or buy their own Wii."

So you plan on having no friends, then? If my friend told me to buy my own controller or even my own console I'd tell him to buy another friend.
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Post by: Strell on September 14, 2006, 10:15:07 AM: That's silly Ian.

We all know you have no friends.

//JOKING PEOPLE STFU
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Post by: AnyoneEB on September 14, 2006, 10:22:33 AM: Nintendo has shown different Wii controller colors (admittedly, I believe they have also shown different Wii colors), and the Gamecube launch had different colored controllers (other than just the purple and black console colors), so I would expect the same for the Wii. I agree that I very much perfer to have uniquely colored controllers.
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Post by: Ian Sane on September 14, 2006, 10:25:59 AM: "That's silly Ian.

We all know you have no friends."

All my old friends told me to buy my own controller.
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Post by: Artimus on September 14, 2006, 10:28:35 AM: Ian, but you're all about yourself. You would tell him to buy another friend because it offends you that for you to have fun you'd actually have to buy something. How rude of him to not pay $60 so YOU can play! Typical Ian.

And if the internal memory adds more than a couple dollars to the price I'd be shocked. The Miis are a fun and unique way of doing things. People brought memory cards with them so they could use their saved characters all the time.
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Post by: KDR_11k on September 14, 2006, 11:22:59 AM: The personal data in the controller is simply a way to make bringing your user profile with you easier if you have a Wii yourself. Currently you need to bring a memory card along and possibly go through complicated maneuvers to get those profiles onto someone else's system.
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Post by: WalkingTheCow on September 14, 2006, 11:28:35 AM: Well I assume they're gonna give you a pack of rhinestones with every Wii controller.
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Post by: RickPowers on September 14, 2006, 11:33:19 AM: The Wiidazzler?
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Post by: MaryJane on September 14, 2006, 11:41:06 AM: No one got my joke!

well it was only half a joke but still I guess no one is as big a nerd as i am.
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Post by: Hostile Creation on September 14, 2006, 12:17:01 PM: I don't know what I'm going to do. I need a black Wii. I always get the black Nintendo console.

I definitely want a black controller though. That looked bad-ass.
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Post by: Strell on September 14, 2006, 12:21:36 PM: The black Wii is not bigger, thicker, and more pleasureable than the white Wii.

That's just a myth.
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Post by: wandering on September 14, 2006, 12:21:48 PM: In this case I wanted black cause I think it looks better with the blue light. Black GameCube, though, was bleh. Black on slightly darker, shinier black. Indigo looked so much better.
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Post by: 31 Flavas on September 14, 2006, 12:39:48 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: MaryJane
No one got my joke!

well it was only half a joke but still I guess no one is as big a nerd as i am.
Well if it was a play off of the cryptographicly lased Nintendo press release, I at least noticed that. I'm not going to bother to decrypt the word jumble though.
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Post by: Athrun Zala on September 14, 2006, 06:40:51 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: Strell
The black Wii is not bigger, thicker, and more pleasureable than the white Wii.

That's just a myth.
LOL

and most people seem to have missed the fact that you can save multiple Miis (maybe profiles as well?) ob the Wiimote...so maybe sharing the wiimote isn't THAT hard
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Post by: Mario on September 14, 2006, 06:47:59 PM: Geez, we're just talking about different colours here. All my GameCube controllers are different colours anyway because I wanted to be able tell them apart, even though they didn't have stored data in them. If Wii controller colours are all the same at launch I might just wait a while.
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Post by: Caliban on September 14, 2006, 09:31:32 PM: Or you could just look at which number at bottom-side of wiimote is lit up, come to a consensus (I'm 1, you're 2), and that's that, problem solved.
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Post by: Smoke39 on September 14, 2006, 09:48:30 PM: Screw lights next to numbers, I want a personalized remote. O:
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Post by: Hostile Creation on September 15, 2006, 09:00:49 AM: I'd hope they'd launch with black, because I'd be all over that. If not, I'll probably just end up getting a white and getting a black if that one ever messes up or something.
As for controllers, yes, we share them. But my friend and I (the two owning Gamecubes) each have a controller that we consider our own. We share the others, and we allow others to use ours when we're not playing, but those two controllers are our favored controllers, and we always play against each other using those.
So I'd like a black one for that, but I'm afraid they won't release in black initially. And I want it as early as I can get it.
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Post by: WalkingTheCow on September 15, 2006, 09:15:11 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: Smoke39
Screw lights next to numbers, I want a personalized remote. O:

And that's why you're gonna want to use those packed-in rhinestones.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on September 15, 2006, 09:30:50 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: Strell
The black Wii is not bigger, thicker, and more pleasureable than the white Wii.

That's just a myth.
Maybe it is, maybe it ain't, but how would I look with a white Wii? I know that at least I would be unsatisfied and thats enough to make me wait till I can get a black one.

And as far as controllers go, I hope they atlest release those in different colors.
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Post by: OverHeat on September 15, 2006, 09:36:17 AM: Use stickerz!!!

I dont tell my friends to buy their own controller. That would be wrong. I tell them that if they dont like it, they can buy ME another controller and we can play together all they want. HEY! I aint no Sugar Daddy! I gots mouths to feed!
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Post by: ShyGuy on September 15, 2006, 09:54:16 AM: Pimp my Wiimote. We're gonna put a flip down LCD montior in that sucker.
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Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on September 15, 2006, 10:05:11 AM: Give me a Wireless Wang Wand in the 1to1 shape and scale of Reggie's forearm. It'll grant the user perfect aim and MAXIMUM POWER.
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Post by: capamerica on September 15, 2006, 10:33:52 AM: I already have my Wii and Wiimote look planed out

Behold..

Now maybe with the VC maybe just maybe my dream of playing Dead or Alive on a Nintendo console might just happen!
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Post by: AnyoneEB on September 15, 2006, 11:19:22 AM: LOL, capamerica. That would be highly amusing if you actually did that, but I assume you are kidding. I am not sure how one would go about doing that even one wanted to.
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Post by: capamerica on September 15, 2006, 11:38:45 AM: Who's kidding? I did it with my GBA:SP and DS. My SP has a Samus theme and my DS has a Rikku (FFX) theme.

I found these printable stickers at Staples that were water proff and they work great for things that you hold onto.
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Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on September 15, 2006, 11:55:15 AM: You arse, you borke the forum with your purple haired mannequin.
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Post by: Ceric on September 15, 2006, 01:39:58 PM: I'm going to go straight up to a Capsule machine and whatever lanyard thingy that comes out is what will be on my WiiPointer. (That's why my DS has Winnie the Pooh in a Hamster costume.)
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Post by: couchmonkey on September 15, 2006, 01:45:10 PM: I'm still thinking of painting my Wii green, but it depends on if I can afford two, which is looking unlikely.
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Post by: Ceric on September 15, 2006, 01:49:04 PM: lol Cap. I'm going to do the protective shell of my phone with the Wii VC Picture we had a while back with all the characters.

I don't think I could bring myself to skin my Wii. Even though it needs to be Indigo. All my Systems I could get in Indigo at launch are Indigo.
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Post by: Athrun Zala on September 15, 2006, 03:32:01 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: couchmonkey
I'm still thinking of painting my Wii green, but it depends on if I can afford two, which is looking unlikely.
sell your preordered PS3 (if you sell it on ebay, high chance you'll be able to get 4 Wiis with that money XD)
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Post by: capamerica on September 17, 2006, 08:56:43 AM: I'm sorry, Here Professional 666 I made you a special Wii to makeup for it.
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Post by: Caterkiller on September 17, 2006, 09:27:27 AM: I want that Daisy Wii sooo bad you have no idea! If I knew who to turn to, to get my Wii done up like that I would be first in line for it.
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Post by: IceCold on September 17, 2006, 01:49:32 PM: Nice!
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Post by: King of Twitch on September 17, 2006, 01:54:56 PM: Nice one Cap; I'd love to have Daisy's face all over my wii
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Post by: Caliban on September 17, 2006, 02:52:10 PM: Hmm...now that's a nice way to make the Wii black, except you really can't make a good sticker for the nunchuk controller.