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Smallest Console Needs More Room to Run

Joystiq reports that some of the boys over at MTV intalled a Wii in their aptly-named “game cave”, but had their funtime niggled at by the sheer amount of room it takes to accommodate four tennis-swinging Wiiers: We managed, and we had fun. But the geometry of the Wii is clear now. Little more than […]

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Joystiq reports that some of the boys over at MTV intalled a Wii in their aptly-named “game cave”, but had their funtime niggled at by the sheer amount of room it takes to accommodate four tennis-swinging Wiiers:

We managed, and we had fun. But the geometry of the Wii is clear now. Little more than a couch-width may have been all the space required for four-player gaming in the pre-Wii era. Any Wii consumer's old game-playing real estate is going to need an upgrade.

I’m thinking the Wii is going to be one of those consoles that one or two people out of every social group actually owns, and is taken out mostly at parties and séances.

MTV News [MTV]