14 DAY TRIAL // This has got to be the worst idea ever. Household gaming device (that's "household") Wii, from Nintendo, has been nicely crafted to appeal not just to young people, but also to middle-aged people and why not even old people? The innovative motion sensitive control scheme is where all the success is coming from, so how exactly do you have fun with a portable Wii?
Let's say you're on a train. Forget that very few of them even have power sockets, but once you've plugged the damned thing in, what exactly are you supposed to do? Tell everyone in sight to move it along because you're fancying a swing in Wii Tennis? Surely they haven't changed the games' control schemes just by adding a portable, 7-inch LCD screen to the Wii. What, the Wii's classic controller you say? So then, what makes the Wii so special anymore?
You see, there's absolutely no good reason whatsoever for someone to own a portable Wii. And since I'm on fire (I have a way too good of impression about myself...), what do you think the whole bundle weighs? Yes I know, the Wii is quite light (just a bit heavier than a PS2 slim), but add that LCD screen on it and you've got yourself a 1 kilo and a half of portable hardware. Well, maybe just a little less. What, are laptops out of fashion or something?
Japanese peripheral-maker Century, the ones who came up with the portable 7-inch LCD screen for the WIi, have even implemented an infrared sensor bar, so gamers (all two of them) will be able to lug it around, as Kotaku reports. And if you want another reason to just switch to the Animal Planet and forget all about the portable Wii thing, you should know that it will set you back some ?14,800, which is 119 in US dollars. Yes, the thing alone, no Wii included.
However, Gizmodo's Jason Chen claims it is a fairly good-looking LCD screen, for a 7-incher. Quite frankly, the screen can be HD-Blu-ray-combined visual heaven for all I care, not that I hate the Wii or anything (I just think it simplifies games, that's all), but I wouldn't carry that clunky thing around even if the company paid me. Try not to be influenced by my words though, I just couldn't stop my subjective personality surfacing.