I don't like having anything on it's side. It's just a personal preference. I actually think that the Wii would look better laying down horizontally, however, there wasn't enough real estate on the top of my TV to provide adequate support (the back of the Wii would have been hanging over by a good inch. With that said, I ended-up using the stand to position the Wii vertically. It's small size made it possible to move my DVD Player/HT Receiver, Satellite receiver and XBox over about an inch (they sit on an end table next to the TV) and place the Wii alongside everything else. What I really hate about having the Wii standing up like that is I can't keep the WaveBird Receiver and Memory Card in the GameCube ports at all times like I had wanted to. I just know that doing that would expose the Wii to too much dust which would probably do bad things to these GameCube ports over time. Not a big deal, but slightly disappointing.