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When I first saw the video showcasing what was then “the revolution’s” new an innovative controller, the first game idea that came to my mind was to use two remotes to play the theremin. Due to the extreme unpopularity of this cult electronic instrument, and the name of the console no longer allowing my dream game to be called TTRR Theremin Theremin Revolution Revolution, the ide...

A company called RetroZone is selling two GameCube controller adapters that let you use SNES and NES controllers with any GameCube/Wii Virtual Console game. Despite the product website’s claims I doubt you’ll be able to use the controller adapters for any game that requires more than the standard SNES or NES controlls to work, but if you need that nostalgic feeling of a rectangular con...

It’s over. The Wiimote straps have been quietly replaced. This includes console packaging, Wiimote-only packaging, and even the Wii Play combo packs. The new straps may or may not have an intricate, highly top secret titanium/adamantium alloy mix sew into the fabric. Nintendo isn’t saying, but I’m speculating it’s true. Back to having fun.

Though Bowling, Tennis, and Baseball are still my favorites, in that order, Wii Sports Golf has really grown on me and perhaps will soon surpass one of the others in terms of enjoyment. Golf, along with boxing, always felt “too” disconnected from the real deal, especially the latter. However, once I stopped treating the first like a real game of golf, I started having a blast and conti...

I don’t mind text prompts, I just wish Nintendo did a better job with text usability in Twilight Princess. Though readable, and artistic, the outer glow on text is just unnecessary making it more difficult to quickly read. Dark text backgrounds would have been better for legibility too. Is this a significant problem? No. Does it hurt the experience a tad? I think it does, if only slightly. A...

As Jack already stated, Nintendo dominated November hardware sales in the US. Over 900k DS’s, 600k GBA’s, and nearly 500K Wii’s sold. From Nintendo’s press release: “It was a month that belonged to Nintendo. According to independent sales data from the NPD Group, Nintendo sold 55 percent of all video game systems in November, led by the launch of the Wii home system a...

Move over rumble lawsuit, hello Wiimote lawsuit! A company named… hold on, let me check my notes. Immersion… no. Irrelevant…no… Oh, right, here it is. A company named Interlink is trying to cash in on the Wii’s success by claiming the Wiimote technology infringes on a patent. Like hokey celebrity dance competitions, its seems that suing successful game companies for a...

If the numbers from Next Generation are to believed, then it was not the Wii that took November, but its pipsqueak cousin the Nintendo DS (article says these are North American sales). “The Wii sold 476,000 units for the month, while the shorter-in-supply PlayStation 3 sold 197,000 units. Sony was aiming to have 400,000 units available on launch day in the US. The little DS juggernaut sold 9...

I think everyone and their Nintendog has weighed in on the Wiimote strap by now. I know I’ve posted about it twice. Does it break easily? Is it user error? Has the Internet once again taken one or two freak accidents (or staged events) and made them into a “widespread problem?” All great questions, but I want to know what the “broken strap” phenomena really means. Her...

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata acknowledged Wii strap failures today and says the company is invistigating the problem, though no specific measures have been taken. From the article: “We are investigating,” Iwata said of reports about the Wii’s strap coming off as players swung around the controller, at times causing the remote to fly out of their hands. “Some people are g...

Even Jim Anchower from The Onion missed out on getting a Wii. [Warning: the article has some swears and dirty humor in it!]

Can you see him? Through the fog of war that has been the console wars; rising above the screams of long forgotten forays into his genre like Mario Paint; battling back from the depths of nothingness… It’s Bob Ross! He’s still dead — but his Wii game lives on! For some here at Infendo, the Bob Ross phenomena has taken on an importance of epic proportions. But recently it wa...