http://www.joystiq.com/2006/10/09/sunlight-wiis-biggest-foe/
Quite annoying but not a mbig deal for me. If block the sun to avoid glare on my TV. If thats where my sensor is hopefully it wont be a big problem.
That and gamers also hate sun light amirite?
******* it, I live in florida. I'm ****ed.:(
I've been to Florida. Your grass is sharp and rough.
Rainy Oregon for the win. I'm on the coast, though, and when the sun's out, it's exceptionally luminous, especially when reflecting off the ocean. I'm sure it won't be too bad.
Meh just draw your curtain slightly so none is hitting the screen. Surely none of you play with glare? i cant stand it.
I guess I'll just have to put my TV under my window. That'd solve the problem, amirite?
Halogen lights are also bad for Wii, they mess up the aiming.
All I have to say is this...
[IMG]http://www.feldschmid.com/fotos/gollum/gollum.gif[/IMG]
Wii hates the light! Wii hates it, Wii hates it!!!
I used to have to play with glare almost all the time due to bad TV location. One side of my house is all windows.:(
But hey, that's just a few weeks out of the year when I'd have to wait until dark to play.
Ha ha best image of a gamer ever
They only come out at night...
I don't play with glare. I usually set the televisions up where glare will forever be absent. Gothic-wiilolita!
I actually like this flaw, if one could call it that. It seems to give the Wii more personality.
It's not a problem for me; I live in a basement. :cookie:
I have a totally empty basement that will soon be specifically tailored to fit the Wii. I really should embellish it and make something out of nothing.
I have shutters for blinds and my lights are always off. So there's no problem for me.
I wonder just how much this affects the wii. Are we talking about total melt down or just a shacky aim? I also wonder how much coverup it will need, Could the glare from the little sun left by the curtain affect it?
I wish I could test this, but alas.
BINGO
Darnit! I'll have to take down all of my sunlamps, reflectors, strobe lights, and lasers with fog machines I've currently got setup to enhance my TV viewing.
Nintendo have largely solved the problem (says so in their Wii development blog thing). It only really means you can't have sunlight shining directly onto the sensor bar, and therefore the TV.
Not really a problem considering if sunlight is shining on it you won't be able to see the screen anyway.
It's only because the sensor bar (which actually doesn't have any sensors at all) has 2 rows of 4 infrared LEDs that the wiimote uses for tracking.
I have to keep my curtains closed all the time anyway - I live on the ground floor right next to a bus stop.
Although this thread has reminded me that I will need to keep my bedroom floro clean if I want to fully enjoy the Wii. Not something I relish.
I play with closed blinds. My boyfriend, however, doesn't, and his gaming experience and habits are of utmost importance.
Complete darkness. :devil:
[COLOR="Yellow"]I live in Florida as well. No matter how hard i try to block the sun from reflecting on my T.V, it always seems to sneak it's way in, somehow. I work while the sun is out anyways so it won't be a problem for me.[/COLOR]
We would be making fun of this if it was a PS3 problem.
I do play in the darkest conditions possible anyway, but hooray for this reinforcing gamer stereotypes. :(
At first I thought this was talking about the DS Lite. And I was like, "why can't we all just get along?"
You guys are profoundly stupid.
None of those were funny. And you completely missed his whole point. How that's possible, I'm not sure.
[quote=s0ul]We would be making fun of this if it was a PS3 problem.
Everyone has a gaming bias, you're a liar if you say you don't (not you specifically). Kicking someone when they're down is always more fun, anyway, and Sony are pretty much below sea level right now.
It odesn't matter at all. Who is going to leave the bar in sunlight that's intense enough for so long? Besides, once you take it out it'll be fine.
Also, you wouldn't playi n the sunlight because of glare.
well its not a huge problem. like speedy said, it has to be directly on. and even so, it would not be hard to cover the bar with something
That's not making fun of it, stupid, it's making jokes related to the subject. If you can't see how that's different I'm driving to Pennsylvania and kicking you in the nuts.
It's nowhere near as sensitive as everyone seems to think, anyway, and according to Nintendo it was a problem realised early in development and a lot of time was spent sorting it out.
It'll be roughly the same amount of trouble you have getting your TV remote to work when there's sun shining on the sensor.
Probably won't affect me. Seeing as my Wii is going into my basement.
No a big deal for me. My Wii will be in the basement.
Thanks to whoever cleaned up the stupid stuff over TendoAddict's spelling. I think to go on like that was stupid an unnecessary to make a fuss like that over it.
Anyhow, here is Ninty's official word on this situation:
I wonder why sun light effects the Wii's controlls in the first place. I dont quite understand how anything the sun emits (Basic light rays, UV rays, ect.) could effect the sensor bar.
The sun emits many types of light. The sensor bar uses one of those types of light to track the Wiimote's position.
Not hard to grasp.
The controller communicates with the system via bluetooth, but it uses infrared to first figure out where it's pointing by using the IR signals from the sensor bar. The Sun gives out a ton of infrared, so the signal would get lost in a blast of IR from the Sun.
[quote]It is as of yet unclear how garlic affects Wiimote functionality or load times.
That'd be purty kewl.
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/wii/more-wii-heliophobia-207115.php
Ok so apparantly for it to affect gameplay it needs to be absolutely swamped in light. Like if you couldnt see the screen at all. False alarm folks.