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Because the new Wii wireless controller only takes AA batteries, what will happen when the batteries die? Will the game know somehow and pause the game/save the game til you put in new batteries or will it just keep continuing, as you can do nothing to stop it?
What's to stop the game from just killing you off, if you are playing Twilight Princess and you are in a boss stage and your controller's batteries die out and the boss kills you, even when you are so incredibly close to beating it.
This is something I don't really understand how it will work.
Every battery controller I've ever seen just dies and they game just keeps going as if you set the controller down. Twould be nice if it knew and paused it but I wouldn't count on it. Buy some rechargeables and keep em rotated. It seems like people want to make minor issues that are universal sound like deal breakers for he console.
dont worry that much the wireless controller for the gamecube lasts a very long time (ive heard) That would be cool if when the batterys die the controls to the game that your playing switches to another controller you have.
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all three new systems have wireless so this is an issue no matter which console you are using, however with the ds nintendo built in a warning light for when the battery is getting low so you can plug it in or save and not lose any information, maybe the wiimote will feature a similar indicator.
the most likely thing is that the controller probably might have a low battery light or signal that warns you before the battery is completely drained.
Get some rechargables the higer the wat the better
I think you will find that this doesn't solve the problem at hand.
I personaly think that nintendo will find someway around the problem either with the light on the controler changing to a different colour to warn you or the game pausing when the controler signal stops or both.
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of the things i got that are battery power all tell me when there juce is low so a light will be nice
Nintendo did that with the GB, I'm sure they'll do the same for the Wii controller. Where did you hear that the controller will run on AA batteries? Everything these days is rechargeable...
Though Nintendo still considered the units we were using to be prototypes, we reckon they gave a pretty good sense of the unit's heft. The controllers we had in our hands at the Tokyo Game Show were wired and weighed almost nothing. The wireless prototypes have a decent heft to them now, though. They use AA batteries, which will further add to the weight. At the moment, the main controller feels about as heavy as a Nintendo DS. The nunchaku weighs about as much as a cell phone. Holding both units in either hand feels fine, and the buttons are easy to reach.
They also say nintendo was claiming the controller as a prototype, so rechargable may yet happen....but this close to launch probably not, it was more likely just a safety statement in case some problem (ie the halogen rumor) cropped up and something had to change.
