This Reason is Enough All By Itself Not To Buy a Wii

I went to my Brother in laws this past weekend and he owns a 360 and bought the Wii for his boys ages (4 & 7), with a total of 3 Wii-motes and trying to connect all 3 Wii controllers at once is the biggest pain in the butt i've ever gone through on any console.

With the 360 and PS3 you just a push button on the controller you want connected and your done, with the Wii you have to go into a specific menu push the 1 & 2 buttons just right while holding the remote in front of the sensor bar until it connects and then start your game, and every time we started the game the remotes disconnected.

They all had new batteries, and without exaggeration they had to be reconnected 14 times while only playing 2 games, my older nieces (14) and nephews (17) went through the same problems.

So let me reiterate by saying the Wii is the biggest joke in the gaming industry today, regardless of sales. Time has proven that sales doesn't equal intelligence just people financial straits.

I went to my Brother in laws this past weekend and he owns a 360 and bought the Wii for his boys ages (4 & 7), with a total of 3 Wii-motes and trying to connect all 3 Wii controllers at once is the biggest pain in the butt i've ever gone through on any console.

With the 360 and PS3 you just a push button on the controller you want connected and your done, with the Wii you have to go into a specific menu push the 1 & 2 buttons just right while holding the remote in front of the sensor bar until it connects and then start your game, and every time we started the game the remotes disconnected.

They all had new batteries, and without exaggeration they had to be reconnected 14 times while only playing 2 games, my older nieces (14) and nephews (17) went through the same problems.

So let me reiterate by saying the Wii is the biggest joke in the gaming industry today, regardless of sales. Time has proven that sales doesn't equal intelligence just people financial straits.

PS3nut

troll on

but you do make a good point, i dont think people who have never touched a wii should post about it.

Oh noes! Don't buy a Wii, the controllers are terrible!

Well, they are but anyway. It might just be a hardware problem. Anytime I've ever played a Wii the Wii-motes worked fine.

I went to my Brother in laws this past weekend and he owns a 360 and bought the Wii for his boys ages (4 & 7), with a total of 3 Wii-motes and trying to connect all 3 Wii controllers at once is the biggest pain in the butt i've ever gone through on any console.

With the 360 and PS3 you just a push button on the controller you want connected and your done, with the Wii you have to go into a specific menu push the 1 & 2 buttons just right while holding the remote in front of the sensor bar until it connects and then start your game, and every time we started the game the remotes disconnected.

They all had new batteries, and without exaggeration they had to be reconnected 14 times while only playing 2 games, my older nieces (14) and nephews (17) went through the same problems.

So let me reiterate by saying the Wii is the biggest joke in the gaming industry today, regardless of sales. Time has proven that sales doesn't equal intelligence just people financial straits.

PS3nut

You've obviously failed to synch up the wii remotes properly, as i(and many other wii owners) can turn two wii remotes on with the push of a button.

I havent' dealt with a new wii remote since launch, but that is my guess. You've not successfully synched them to the wii.. the option you'r describing is there to allow you to easily bring your wii remote to your friends house and use it. But with in house wii remotes, you should be able to synch them up such that with the push of the button they turn on.. you can reaccess that menu you described with in house wii remotes to change the order(who's controller 1) though, which is quite convenient.
I suggest reading the manual for the remotes or in the wii console box to help you, it's all there i'd imagine. What you should have to do is open up the battery case for a wii remote and find the little blue button(i believe it's blue!). Push the synch button on the wii console(there are only a handful, it shouldn't be hard to find :P) and then push the synch button for the wii remote - sounds like how you hook up new 360 controllers eh. Now, that wii remote should be registered to that wii from now on and you can avoid your above problems.

The only problem I've ever had with my Wiimote, is when it just completely refused to do anything for a day. It wouldn't even turn on, yet started working fine the next day.

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I went to my Brother in laws this past weekend and he owns a 360 and bought the Wii for his boys ages (4 & 7), with a total of 3 Wii-motes and trying to connect all 3 Wii controllers at once is the biggest pain in the butt i've ever gone through on any console.

With the 360 and PS3 you just a push button on the controller you want connected and your done, with the Wii you have to go into a specific menu push the 1 & 2 buttons just right while holding the remote in front of the sensor bar until it connects and then start your game, and every time we started the game the remotes disconnected.

They all had new batteries, and without exaggeration they had to be reconnected 14 times while only playing 2 games, my older nieces (14) and nephews (17) went through the same problems.

So let me reiterate by saying the Wii is the biggest joke in the gaming industry today, regardless of sales. Time has proven that sales doesn't equal intelligence just people financial straits.

WllDan7

I went to my Brother in laws this past weekend and he owns a 360 and bought the Wii for his boys ages (4 & 7), with a total of 3 Wii-motes and trying to connect all 3 Wii controllers at once is the biggest pain in the butt i've ever gone through on any console.

With the 360 and PS3 you just a push button on the controller you want connected and your done, with the Wii you have to go into a specific menu push the 1 & 2 buttons just right while holding the remote in front of the sensor bar until it connects and then start your game, and every time we started the game the remotes disconnected.

They all had new batteries, and without exaggeration they had to be reconnected 14 times while only playing 2 games, my older nieces (14) and nephews (17) went through the same problems.

So let me reiterate by saying the Wii is the biggest joke in the gaming industry today, regardless of sales. Time has proven that sales doesn't equal intelligence just people financial straits.

I went to my Brother in laws this past weekend and he owns a 360 and bought the Wii for his boys ages (4 & 7), with a total of 3 Wii-motes and trying to connect all 3 Wii controllers at once is the biggest pain in the butt i've ever gone through on any console.

With the 360 and PS3 you just a push button on the controller you want connected and your done, with the Wii you have to go into a specific menu push the 1 & 2 buttons just right while holding the remote in front of the sensor bar until it connects and then start your game, and every time we started the game the remotes disconnected.

They all had new batteries, and without exaggeration they had to be reconnected 14 times while only playing 2 games, my older nieces (14) and nephews (17) went through the same problems.

So let me reiterate by saying the Wii is the biggest joke in the gaming industry today, regardless of sales. Time has proven that sales doesn't equal intelligence just people financial straits.

PS3nut

What you should have done (fom the Nintendo web site):

Standard Mode Synchronization

1. Press the Power button on the Wii console to turn it on.
2. Open the SD Card Slot cover on the front of the Wii console. Remove the battery cover on the back of the Wii Remote you wish to sync up.
3. Press and release the SYNC button on the inside of the SD Card compartment on the console. Press and release the SYNC button just below the batteries on the Wii Remote.
4. When the Player LED blinking stops, the syncing is complete. The LED that is illuminated indicates the player number (1 through 4)

^^Simple, yes?

What you did was the one time mode sync. You're only supposed to do that when you bring your remote over to a friend's house. It temporarily syncs your remote to another console without removing the original sync to your home console. Since there was no original sync on those remotes you were using, every time you turned off the Wii, the remotes kept on reverting to their original state - not synced to anything.

Maybe your family should learn how to read manuals before blaming your problems on the hardware.

Wii is meant for casuals who never played games b4.

For gamers, its more for a complement to a 360.

I went to my Brother in laws this past weekend and he owns a 360 and bought the Wii for his boys ages (4 & 7), with a total of 3 Wii-motes and trying to connect all 3 Wii controllers at once is the biggest pain in the butt i've ever gone through on any console.

With the 360 and PS3 you just a push button on the controller you want connected and your done, with the Wii you have to go into a specific menu push the 1 & 2 buttons just right while holding the remote in front of the sensor bar until it connects and then start your game, and every time we started the game the remotes disconnected.

They all had new batteries, and without exaggeration they had to be reconnected 14 times while only playing 2 games, my older nieces (14) and nephews (17) went through the same problems.

So let me reiterate by saying the Wii is the biggest joke in the gaming industry today, regardless of sales. Time has proven that sales doesn't equal intelligence just people financial straits.

PS3nut

theres 0 point in bashing the Wii. itll still sell amazingly well.

Wii shouldnt even be your concern..........PS3 fans should only care about beating 360 and vise versa.

I went to my Brother in laws this past weekend and he owns a 360 and bought the Wii for his boys ages (4 & 7), with a total of 3 Wii-motes and trying to connect all 3 Wii controllers at once is the biggest pain in the butt i've ever gone through on any console.

With the 360 and PS3 you just a push button on the controller you want connected and your done, with the Wii you have to go into a specific menu push the 1 & 2 buttons just right while holding the remote in front of the sensor bar until it connects and then start your game, and every time we started the game the remotes disconnected.

They all had new batteries, and without exaggeration they had to be reconnected 14 times while only playing 2 games, my older nieces (14) and nephews (17) went through the same problems.

So let me reiterate by saying the Wii is the biggest joke in the gaming industry today, regardless of sales. Time has proven that sales doesn't equal intelligence just people financial straits.

You've obviously failed to synch up the wii remotes properly, as i(and many other wii owners) can turn two wii remotes on with the push of a button.

I havent' dealt with a new wii remote since launch, but that is my guess. You've not successfully synched them to the wii.. the option you'r describing is there to allow you to easily bring your wii remote to your friends house and use it. But with in house wii remotes, you should be able to synch them up such that with the push of the button they turn on.. you can reaccess that menu you described with in house wii remotes to change the order(who's controller 1) though, which is quite convenient.
I suggest reading the manual for the remotes or in the wii console box to help you, it's all there i'd imagine. What you should have to do is open up the battery case for a wii remote and find the little blue button(i believe it's blue!). Push the synch button on the wii console(there are only a handful, it shouldn't be hard to find :P) and then push the synch button for the wii remote - sounds like how you hook up new 360 controllers eh. Now, that wii remote should be registered to that wii from now on and you can avoid your above problems.

blahzor

This guy wins! Please read the manual.

This reminds me of the time that a girl at work couldn't get her computer to work and she was a swearing up a storm. I walked in and took her notebook off of the Ctrl key. Some people just aren't cut out for technology.

Hmm.... I don't recall having any problems syncing my Wii controllers. A matter of fact it's been awhile, but I recall it being as easy as my 360.

You just have to be smarter than the machine. :P J/K