Official Wii Thread

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Originally Posted by Xero Limit 126 Ever see that Simpsons episode where Bart makes a comment about writing on the chalk board and his wrist sounding like a cement truck? That's me. So I'd hate to have had this kind of technology back then, as swinging and flicking your wrists has to be much more dangerous than keeping your hands on a controller.

Swinging and flicking your wrists has to be much more dangerous than keeping your hands on a controller?

Right.

Inform our discus throwers, our bowlers, our baseball players, and our frisbee players. Inform the golfers, the basketballers, and the fishermen. Inform the guitarists, bass players and drummers. Tell them all that they'd be better off sitting motionless on a couch developing cement trucks at the end of their arms. Come on.

If you're really that worried about your fragile wrists snapping, you might be pleased to know that a) there are GameCube ports on the Wii so, at the very least, there will be some games that won't break your mixers; b) the whole "nunchuck" analog stick attachment suggests that you might even get to try something new without harming your wrists by violently flailing and swinging, and; c) that Nintendo have announced a "dock" for the remote-controller, which will adapt it into a more "traditional" wireless controller anyway.