To some the Wii Wheel is just the latest in a long line of useless videogame peripherals to hit the Wii, but as far as Nintendo is concerned, it's serious business. So serious, in fact, that the wheel's lead designer went on record as saying that the $14.99 plastic shell had over 30 prototypes leading up to the finished product.
Apparently more thought went into this than previously known. So much for thoughts of taking a white piece of plastic, and notching out a place to house the Wiimote. Rumor has it that engineers are involved, words such as comfort, weight, and ergonomics are thrown around, and much care and planning are behind its final form factor before release. Maybe this will help convince Nick (and the rest of you) that we're all getting a good deal here. Have you priced an engineer's time lately? They don't come cheap.
[Via Gamespot]
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10:38 AM on 04.06.2008
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...no.
I still think $14.99 is asking a lot. $10 would be pushing it, but seriously? $15?
And aren't there already cheaper Wheel peripherals out there?
Sadly, it'll sell amazingly well.
I was just about to say, out of all the prototypes they had, they just ended up with a perfect circle
It's sad that anyone even thinks of buying this junk but clearly its profitable or they wouldn't do it. The ultimate travesty will be when Wii Fit leaps to #1 in sales in the US because of all the fools thinking a lump of plastic with a few pressure sensors is going to make them fit. Wii Fit truly deserves its own infomercial since it would fit right in with the other fitness junk that makes claims that have no basis in reality.
I probably will use motion controls for Mariokart, but fuck if I'm using that damn wheel.
If you stop to add it up, controllers are where Nintendo makes a killing, as it is.
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can't agree more.
"Effort was put into it, seriously."
Hooray for hackers!
I'll buy the game some day (don't think i'll be buying it at launch) and try the wheel, but that price just made it sure for me that i'm not gonna buy a second one.
Sure it's over priced but that doesn't mean I'll have to buy 12 controllers($180).
they did temper with the weight and such, so probably didn't every prototype alter the design radically.
It's a steering wheel, for gods sake!
On another note, I just saw the 10 second advert for MKart on tv... Spending 90% of adverts on retards pulling faces as they cream themselves playing the Wii is really getting old. There might have been 1 combined second of gameplay.
Give those clever, hard-working designers and marketing folk a raise!
everyone just loves to ride the complain train
Wii Wheel for $10 says Nintendo
Either way, I'm not buying extra Wii wheels.
Does anyone remember paying $90 for Super Scope, only to be rewarded with crappy Super Scope 6 games, migraine headaches from squinting through the viewfinder and massive shoulder cramps?
Anyways, the construction on this wheel seems a lot more solid than the ones that come bundled with Ubisoft's racing games, and even has a nice extender for the B button.
Examples:
"I'll just use the $1 Ubisoft Wheel" (Go ahead, but surely you realize it retailed for much more than $1 and Nintendo's wheel will quite possibly be better)
"I just don't understand these things" (It's called fun, and ergonomics. It really is not hard to understand)
"I'll just use the gamecube/classic controller" (Good for you? This product is obviously designed for people who want to use the Wiimote...so why do you care?)
"They should be working on online play" (Yes, I definitely want the team in charge of controller ergonomics and feel fixing Nintendo Wi-Fi. Really, that might be what makes it so unreliable in the first place? Maybe the networking guys should do that!).
Ideas like that are priceless. What will they dream up next??
Is it really a key to the Holy Garden of Eden?
I'm gonna try that one first, and if I like it, and I want another, 15 bucks isn't gonna break my bank. People do realize that buyin a second one is optional, right? I mean, Nintendo isn't holding a a wii zapper to your head and saying "Buy this or die!!"
So much Nintendo hate on this site lately... I mean, it doesn't bother me, but wow, video game fans are never happy about anything, are they?