Topic: Corded Wii remotes.... are they needed?

Obviously, I could see a major problem with corded Wii remotes, it kind of defeats the purpose of owning a Wii in the first place for some people...The cord would run on the end of the Wii Remote and be connected directly onto the Wii via those gamecube controller slots, the cord would be connected to where the nunchuck is plugged in on the Wii remote. My brother thinks its a good idea,(mainly because he hates going to Walmart to buy more batteries) so he ran a survey at his school, asking 20 random people on the school campus on whether they would like the idea of a corded Wii remote (he's in a TV productions class).... The results were suprising, about 50% of people wanted a corded Wii remote?! WHY!? I think its a horrid idea, seriously, thats what virtual console controllers/gamecube controllers and Nunchucks are for! Lol, I could imagine people tripping on cords while playing Just Dance! So whats your opinion on corded Wii remotes?

Yes they are needed. Some people don't want to deal with batteries.

Ergh, it's a silly idea. o.0

Tell your brother to spend some of that battery money on a charging station. Then give him a slap.

Perhaps before the days of nimh batteries when rechargeable batteries barely held any charge and failed all too easily, but not nowadays.

No.

_{actually I can imagine people swinging the controller and the Wii flying off onto the floor >:3}

Edit: Really though, corded is a horribly stupid idea, especially for the Wiimote. They should take the DS3's approach and have a rechargeable battery built in.

It's a Nintendo console. It'll probably survive.

The N64 would for sure it is/was such a beast.

Thanks guys, I'll go break the dissapointing news to my bro.

@Machu
Thanks for the advice but we already bought new rechargable batteries, the problem is that those rechargable batteries last about 1 hour! (and thier from Duracell!)
I'll go slap my brother now...

Corded Wii remotes....are they even possible? O___o

That's a dumb idea. Rechargeable batteries are a must better idea and it won't endanger the Wii.

I feel sorry for the those ten random people at your bro's school.

This is like when Ali G invented the mobile phone for the house (cell phone tethered to a jack in the wall). The people who are tired of buying batteries? There's this thing called a recharger. For $15 you can get it with a set of precharged batteries. Done. No more trips to the store. What are they teaching in that school?

tell your brother to invest in rechargeable batteries and a change station

@ChiyoKat: Don´t shop rechargeable batteries by brand. Watch the mAh. Go for as high as possible. A pair of 2700mAh batteries should last plenty of hours. They last for days for me.
An alternative would be a cord to a giant batterypack.

Since nobody can make a Classic Controller compatable controller that plugs into the GameCube Controller ports, I don't think this is even possible.

What B Rex said. It can't happen since the GameCube slots will only work for games that support GC controllers. I don't really see the point of this thread.

Then why did my friends go through like 17 controllers?

@ChiyoKat Your brother should just get rechargeable AA batteries with a charger, a Wii-specific charger, or better yet, an induction charger!

Rechargeable batteries work for me. I only have to swap them out every week or two.

I've got energizer rechargeable batteries and I've only recharged them about once a week if I've been playing non stop. And a wired wii remote would only work if we played no more than 10 feet from the system with a 20 foot cord.

No more than 10 feet from the system?
You'd need a big room with a big TV for that to be a problem.