Since it's unveiling I have been impressed with sleek and sexy Nintendo Wii.

Since I'm not privy to pre-launch Wii experience, I was pretty much convinced the console was a completely self-contained unit.

I had NO idea about this: the dreaded SENSOR BAR. The Wii has gone from a sleathy box, to a wire-stringing nightmare (or maybe a little bad-dream). This reminds me of that Pikachu game that came with the microphone... wires everywhere.

Nintendo, that's not fair!

What if it breaks? What if it gets lost? What if it gets dusty? Where's it gonna go in my home-theater rack?

$100 bet that this thing is eliminated in future Wii versions.

Wii-diculous.

Victor note: Yeah, this may be a little bit of a nasty surprise to a lot of gamers. While Nintendo hasn't exactly denied the existance of the bar, they have definitely been underplaying it, since it detracts from the "magic wand" mythos that's been built up around the Wiimote. Oddly, Sony's motion-sensitive controller for the PS3 -- which has been widely dumped on as a Wiimote rip-off -- seems to have the exact same functionality as the Wiimote, but without the sensor bar.

If Sony ends up building a better Wiimote than Nintendo, that would certainly eliminate a lot of the rationale for buying a Wii.

Unless you really want Zelda, Mario and Metroid.