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    Wii BOSS Controller Case: Great In Theory, Poor In Execution

    If You Are an Idiot, You May Want to Spend $490,000 in this Nintendo Wii Made of Gold

    Nintendo Files Trademark For Zii, Is It The Wii 2 Though?

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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    09:43 AM

    In reply to Wii BOSS Controller Case: Great In Theory, Poor In Execution
    Any controller named BOSS gets my stamp of approval.
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    Image of Strawman Strawman
    09:09 AM

    In reply to Wii BOSS Controller Case: Great In Theory, Poor In Execution
    Disagree! I love the boss. I've got long fingers and holding the wiimote sideways cramps me up. The battery door tab is in a great spot to imprint my finger.

    The boss isn't perfect, but it's easily better than the bare wiimote. I wish the buttons were positioned in the SNES style, which was really well suited to holding RUN and jumping.

    I did run in to some latency issues, but only occasionally. The comfort easily outweighs the minor control issues. It's also built surprisingly well for a third party product; it doesn't feel "clicky" or cheap, and it mates solidly with the wiimote. Bottom line, if you think you need it, you probably do.
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    Image of not_a_virus.exe.vbs not_a_virus.exe.vbs
    12/18/09

    In reply to If You Are an Idiot, You May Want to Spend $490,000 in this Nintendo Wii Made of Gold
    The only people who say a guy that will buy this is an idiot are poor people.
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    Image of Dacker Dacker
    12/18/09

    In reply to If You Are an Idiot, You May Want to Spend $490,000 in this Nintendo Wii Made of Gold
    Let's not forget this voids the warranty!
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    Edited by Dacker at 12/18/09 11:16 AM Dacker was starred Dacker was unstarred
    Image of ManiacFive ManiacFive
    12/18/09

    In reply to If You Are an Idiot, You May Want to Spend $490,000 in this Nintendo Wii Made of Gold
    This would have been better off as a Xbox 360, all that gold, its a good conductor right? Might make it RROD proof!
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    Image of MrBlahBlah MrBlahBlah
    12/18/09

    In reply to If You Are an Idiot, You May Want to Spend $490,000 in this Nintendo Wii Made of Gold
    idiots must be buying these gold-encrusted devices, because they keep getting made
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/18/09

    @MrBlahBlah: I think these types of things are mostly custom made to order.
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    Image of Deckard Deckard
    12/18/09

    In reply to If You Are an Idiot, You May Want to Spend $490,000 in this Nintendo Wii Made of Gold
    Maybe the extra weight will keep my cats from tipping it over. Hmmm...
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    12/18/09

    @Deckard: I think you could probably get by with just the base being gold, if that's your problem, and save yourself a couple hundred grand.
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/18/09

    @OMG! weatherman: But where would the fun in that be?
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    Image of atrus123 atrus123
    12/18/09

    In reply to If You Are an Idiot, You May Want to Spend $490,000 in this Nintendo Wii Made of Gold
    No.

    And I wouldn't want to pay for something like this even if it were a superior console (i.e., PS3).
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    Image of Odin Odin
    12/18/09

    In reply to If You Are an Idiot, You May Want to Spend $490,000 in this Nintendo Wii Made of Gold
    "Via Kotaku"

    I'll leave the same comment here that I did there anyway. This is what we get for paying people millions to kick a bit of rubber around for an hour and a half.
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    Image of PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
    12/18/09

    @Odin: Is that a reference to soccer? And if so, what does that have to do with this?
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    Image of iheartpie iheartpie
    12/18/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: Footballs are made of leather anyway, so I hope it isn't a football reference.

    If it is then It would be refering the the insane money they make; however there are many other sports personalities that earn more; F1 drivers are the real cash whores.
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    Image of Odin Odin
    12/18/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher::
    My mistake, unlike when this was posted on Kotaku this article doesn't have information on who makes this crap.

    It's made by a Liverpool football player called Stuart Hughes.

    [kotaku.com]
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    Image of Kemonomimi Kemonomimi
    12/18/09

    @Odin: Note "Liverpool" and "football player" together. He is referring to actual football, not that handegg sport the rest of the US is enthralled with.
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    Image of Odin Odin
    12/18/09

    @Kemonomimi:
    Approved for Britishness!
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    Image of Odin Odin
    12/18/09

    @iheartpie: Was in reference to the idiot that made it, see above.
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    Image of yantelope yantelope
    12/18/09

    In reply to If You Are an Idiot, You May Want to Spend $490,000 in this Nintendo Wii Made of Gold
    You don't have to be an idiot. You could be a moron, imbecile, fool, or even just of below average intelligence.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/18/09

    In reply to If You Are an Idiot, You May Want to Spend $490,000 in this Nintendo Wii Made of Gold
    Now even the Sultan of Brunei can play with a Wii.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    12/15/09

    In reply to Nintendo Files Trademark For Zii, Is It The Wii 2 Though?
    Could be... Wii is already pretty hard to write in Japanese unless you resort to using deprecated characters... Zii can't even be written properly - you may be able to approximate it with half-sized vowels? Of course they'd go with that, lol
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    Image of DVD_Sandwich DVD_Sandwich
    12/15/09

    In reply to Nintendo Files Trademark For Zii, Is It The Wii 2 Though?
    How could they trademark the name of something another company already made? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.
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    Image of Knirfie Knirfie
    12/15/09

    In reply to Nintendo Files Trademark For Zii, Is It The Wii 2 Though?
    Won't they get in trouble with Creative (Zii)?

    And it's probably some crappy peripheral like the heartrate-monitor.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    12/15/09

    In reply to Nintendo Files Trademark For Zii, Is It The Wii 2 Though?
    If there's one thing we've learned over the last 3 years, it's that Nintendo can be wildly successful while doing everything the game industry and tech media consider backwards and wrong.
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