(damn, has anyone seen Role models?)

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LOUD SARCASM IS MORE SARCASTIC!!!

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@dowingba: agreed; batteries suck

first thing i thought, even before release, about all the wireless controllers:

"nintendo, sony, microsoft and ENERGIZER...they're in cahoots!"

i bought a pretty good battery charger and rechargables when i got a wii,

and it comes in handy for all sorts of other things including rock band 2.

the rockband bundle came packaged with energizer coupons, by the way.

You Be The Judge!

@SilverStar95: wii is a great charge station for me too

don't get me wrong, i love the console,

but lately i've come to think of it as a gamer's usb charge box.

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True enough except for the Sony part. The PS3 controllers have a built in battery that charges via an included (way too short) USB cable.

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:P

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The difference being you don't have a wiimote dangling off your controller. It's a little something called convenience.

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er, I didn't mean dangling, but that your controller isn't dependent on a wiimote.

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A good answer would have been the lack of battery dependence. Admittedly, I don't know why I didn't think of that, duh. But a less smartass answer-- one that you had to go back and correct, since dangling has absolutely nothing to do with it-- would have sufficed.

Not really your style, tho, eh?

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hahah people like you are hilarious.

But yes I will explain. Instead of having to turn on my Wii, take out my wiimote, take out Nyko's classic controller and plug the receptor into the Wiimote. I would just turn on my Wii and take out Nyko's controller.

Here, let me make this easier for you as I fell I might have already confused you.

con⋅ven⋅ience

   /kənˈvinyəns/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [kuhn-veen-yuhns] Show IPA Pronunciation

-noun

1. the quality of being convenient; suitability.

2. anything that saves or simplifies work, adds to one's ease or comfort, etc., as an appliance, utensil, or the like.

here's a tip, look at the second definition >_>

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*I feel

give me an edit button or give me death

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I guess it would be different if the classic controller worked for everything, but this seems like a bit of a niche product, which comes down to my conceptual issue with the classic controller.

Also, I didn't mean to slam Nyko. It looks like a well-made product for what it is. It just seems like a manufactured need to me. YRMV. Sorry.

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I do think you're onto something, though. I'm surprised no one has realized that people who wanted to play the old games would want to do so though on something that felt like the old controllers. A replica would be a nice idea. Not one I'd buy, but...

@koenn: I've done exactly that and you're right that it sucks... so it really depends on what your game 'mix' is whether the CC will work for you, as I think I wrote above. It just seems excessive to pay for a controller like that which could potentially only work with half of your games. If you've got a lot of SNES games, that could obviously be different.

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Nyko, though? They're alright. I got their Megaman X controller for GameCube and Shadow the Hedgehog controller for PS2, and they're pretty good. And in the case of the MMX GCN controller, it was officially licensed by Nintendo in addition to Capcom. Not often does Nintendo license third-party accessories (outside of Hori's products, which are top-notch).

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