Gizmodo
We just got a hands on with Nyko's Wii Party Station and we can safely say that it's crazy. Crazy awesome. It's got pretty much everything you want to have when you're having a Wii house party, and it's designed cheaply enough ($24.99) for every Wii-owning family to use as an accessory to enhance their gaming.
But the best part is, of course, the chip holder. Nyko told us that they were going to re-evaluate the design and increase the size (making it deeper and wider) to accommodate more chips. The amount in there is enough for one person, but as a party tray it's fairly under-stocked. But the idea is great.
There are LCD scoreboards (so you can keep track of which one of the four of you is winning), Wiimote holders, a drawer for Nunchucks, a fan (like the bowling alley) for sweaty gamers, four freezable soda cup holders (with built-in gels to maintain coldness), and a chip and dip holder for, obviously, chips and dip. We didn't eat any of their chips, because they were presumably sitting out all day getting poked at by sweaty journalists.
The soda holders were nice and solid, and has the gels on the inside so it keeps your soda cold for a while longer outside the fridge. The tray holds two Nunchucks, which is usually enough for most four-player games. The LCD scoreboard works by manually adding or subtracting a point depending on whoever won a game (works for every game, obviously). The fan's definitely a great touch for everyone who's throwing the Wiimote thanks to sweaty palm syndrome.
The current version's still just a prototype, but they plan to release a final version in the next couple months. [Wii Party Station]
Comments
Theres GOT to be a drinking game for this!!!! Budwii-ser? Hefewii-sen? Miller Wiite?
I'll stop now.
@branchclarke: You sir, have made me interested in not only Wii, but a seemingly useless accessory for the Wii.
Bravo, sir. Bravo.
Sorry, Jason.
$25 may be cheap enough for this silly contraption; but you cannot talk me into stacking/storing food and drinks anywhere near my electronics gear.
i dunno how exactly, but i can see this going horribly wrong one night... of course, as with any good story, there would be alcohol involved... it would probably involve crumbs, the beverages, and the fan... in some odd combo...
why did they pair salsa and potato chips that's gross, they atleast could have sprung for some tostitos
@branchclarke: if they ever put out a beer controller for wii i would buy a 6-pack.....for both hands.
Geeze... it looks like Hello Kitty's sandbox. I would never eat out of that thing.
I bet I could make a bong attachment that fits into the chip holder and rig it up to blow smoke right into your lungs.
Yes, whenever I'm stoned my ideas are usually this awesome.
I think some of you guys may have misunderstood the Party Station. Consider it as just a holder for everything. Your Wii probably won't be anywhere close to the Party Station. I imagine the Wii will stay right by the tv, and the Party Station is gonna be on a nearby coffee table or somewhere close to the gamers. Think of it as a glorified party tray. You know, with fans and stuff.
i'm speechless. this is too classy. perfect to play wii tapper 25th anniversary budweiser edition.
Holy crack. I can imagine my totally dorky friend getting this. I'm a little too embarrassed to get it, myself. <.<
It should include peltier coolers for the soda cans.
And what good is the bowl for chips if there isn't one for dip??
@ackthbbft: Put the dip in the open drawer while the controllers are resting vertically during play.
Is that Kettle chips and salsa? barf
Sweaty hands be damned- the fans aren't going to do anything to prevent your greaseball friends from slinging that wiimote all over the place.
Man, those controllers are gonna get NASTY, and that's even before somebody dumps their Mountain Dew or Natty Lite all over the place.
Now if it'd hold a set of Forties...
Not a soda drinker and i don't use dip....but this pretty cool for having people over or playing with family...I might be getting a Wii soon
@hoserelder: Dude it is a Wii, therefor it is wireless and is FAR AWAY on your coffee table... Now worries about salsa -> Wii damage.
Until that area in the middle is actually a deep-fat fryer, I think I'll pass.
Dammit, why are you making me wait months for this? I have drunk 6 beers and I want to buy one NOW so that I can store non-alcoholic beverages and low-fat crisps while I burn eleventybillion calories on wii boxing!
Change that soda/beer and chips to Mountain Dew and Funyuns and every overweight geek in the US will want it.
Goes great with that Wii exercise board, eh?
Wow, I might actually have to go buy a wii now!
This is pretty pointless, you might aswell have your drinks, chips and whatever else you need sat on a coffee table. Why do you need this thing?
It just holds it in style, when you could just put it on a table.
Just another useless gadget taking over something thats already simple enough.
Gotta hand it to them for coming up with this idea. I'm not sure how successful it will be, but certainly a first for video games. This is the kind of thing people buy when playing card games or something not video games, so its pretty neat in that respect.
..er.. cos it holds it IN STYLE! ;-)
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