Nintendo has a long way to go to match Apple
I just got my Wii, and it is great, but:
- get the remote more than 8 feet away from the TV and the cursor starts to shake like
the remote is being held by an 80 year old man.
- use the built in web brower, and it insists that you need under 13 parental permission
to register the product even with a 1967 birthdate
- your screen name can't match your user name, so you end up with two user ids, which
must be different and neither of them can be an email address (no special characters).
- no way to remove the news channel, at least no obvious way
- no auto detection of remotes, you have to press sync buttons on the remote and the wii
to sync. I suppose that this is better than the 360's auto sync though.
- you have to continually plug and unplug the nunchuk, because it can't be plugged in when
you play games that don't use it - and this involves stringing and unstringing the wrist strap
in and out of the latch.
- the web brower on the iPhone is nicer than the web browser on the wii
- if Apple had designed it, the Wii would know its own serial number, and would automatically
register itself. The account you create when starting up the wii would work everywhere, including
the nintendo webpage.
- get the remote more than 8 feet away from the TV and the cursor starts to shake like
the remote is being held by an 80 year old man.
- use the built in web brower, and it insists that you need under 13 parental permission
to register the product even with a 1967 birthdate
- your screen name can't match your user name, so you end up with two user ids, which
must be different and neither of them can be an email address (no special characters).
- no way to remove the news channel, at least no obvious way
- no auto detection of remotes, you have to press sync buttons on the remote and the wii
to sync. I suppose that this is better than the 360's auto sync though.
- you have to continually plug and unplug the nunchuk, because it can't be plugged in when
you play games that don't use it - and this involves stringing and unstringing the wrist strap
in and out of the latch.
- the web brower on the iPhone is nicer than the web browser on the wii
- if Apple had designed it, the Wii would know its own serial number, and would automatically
register itself. The account you create when starting up the wii would work everywhere, including
the nintendo webpage.
Comments
For most of the other things, I agree. Except for remote detection. If you had 2 or more Wii's in a room together playing together, it would be a pain in the ass if they were automatically detected.