Quick Wii Thoughts

So my friend picked up a Wii today. (Well, more specifically his brother picked up a Wii for him.) We had a chance to play a little bit of Wii Sports. So I offer a couple of quick thoughts:

• The controller doesn't take that long to get used to. For Wii Sports, it also helps that you are basically doing the same motion that you would if you were participating in the sport.


• Fathers take note: you can use the Wii to teach your sons how not to throw punches like a girl.


• While Wii Sports will never top Dance Dance Revolution for being a good cardio workout, the dodging balls training method for boxing could provide a bit of exercise on its own.


• One potential problem is that you have to set in the Wii whether you have the sensor bar on top of your television or on the botton of your television. If you change televisions and where the bar is (ie from top to bottom), this might be an issue (the insturctions are very specific in stating that the sensor bar has to be in teh middle of the TV, and flush with the front of the surface it is attached to.)
  
  Another nitpick is that the way that the sensor bar attaches to the TV or cabinet is via two sided tape. I don't know about you, but I don't want to attach anything to an of my furniture/electrical equipment by two sided tape.

All in all, Wii Sports was fun. And hopefully I'll have a chance to goof around with an actual game sometime soon.