The Nintendo Wii has been getting plenty of buzz over the past few weeks from various sources. Nintendo isn t too shocked by it; they did build the machine to accommodate a whole new target audience. However, Nintendo may have one fatal flaw in their design: space.
It would seem that Nintendo didn t account for room size when dreaming up the little wand that links our world to the Wii world. Some guys over at MTV decided to run a four player Wii match and found their existing room which is wide enough to fit a couch and have four-player traditional matches didn t accommodate their Wii gaming; they were getting in each others way.
The Wii may be the smallest next-gen console, but it clearly requires the most space to truly enjoy.
And yet another traditional element of console gaming has vanished in the Wii s growing wake; no longer can the console be moved to a back-room and be enjoyed. Either that, or we re going to have to learn to play without looking like a .
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