Wii Wireless Sensor Bar
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Video Game Reviews of Wii Wireless Sensor Bar
Customer Review: Good price, but doesn't deliever the range
Summary: 2 Stars
My living room is quite large and the standard Wii sensor bar leaves the on-screen arrow acting jumping, along with a delayed game response (which is quite aggrevating when playing Mario Kart!) so I purchased this sensor from Wal-Mart today to fix the problem. Unfortunately for me, it did not. After calibrating the remotes with the new sensor in the Wii menu, the jumpiness was reduced minimally and the delay still existed. I measured the location of the sensor bar from where I was sitting and it was almost 25 feet. I moved up a bit and it worked fine (just like the stock sensor). I plan on returning the item tomorrow since it simply did not deliever the distance it markets. If you have a large space, hold onto the recipt incase you encounter the same problem I have.
I gave it 2 stars because generally, the stock sensor will work fine. If you really want to go wireless, than the price can justify the purchase.
Customer Review: Battery life leaves a bit to be desired
Summary: 3 Stars
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Rorke Haining's review linked above beat me to the punch. In short, it's a great concept but rather than battery powered it would be better to have an option for a power adapter - either to a USB port, to a plug-in charger, or even to the Wii connector. Battery life is limited to a few days and there is no sleep mode, the only option for power management is a 1 or 2 hour timer that lets loose with screeching before shutting down. Wireless is great if you can set it and forget it for a few months, but I'll probably either modify it such that I can power it externally or buy a Nintendo Wii Sensor Bar Extension Cable.
Customer Review: Works great!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have a projector setup for my home theater so the sensor bar needed to sit 15 feet away from the wii itself. The cable on the included sensor bar wasn't going to cut it. This wireless sensor bar did the trick nicely. At first the pointer was jumpy when I sat across the room but then I discovered there is a sensitivity setting in the wii menu and everything works perfectly now.
In my opinion it would be nice if the sensor bar had a way to plug it in so you don't have to run it off batteries. I actually ended up installing a power jack into mine - it took a little drilling, soldering, and super glue but it works nicely now. No batteries. :)
Customer Review: Incrediable!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This product works great, I have it 23 ft away from my Wii and it picks up the motion 100%, no lag, no miscues. This was well worth the money and I have now wires hanging around to boot. I would say if there is a down fall and I don't think that it is but it takes 4 AA batteries, but it last an incredible 25 hrs minimum, depends on batteries if you but AA Lithium batteries you'll get more time, but Lithium batteries aren't rechargeable like the regular AA's are, which I recommend getting 2 sets of, one to play with and one to charged up and waiting to go. Customer Review: Works great.
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this Wii Wireless Sensor Bar because my cat chewed through the wire on the sensor bar that came with the Wii. This one runs on batteries, but at least there isn't a wire for the cat to chew. There is a timer you can set so the bar doesn't stay on and using up the batteries when you're not using it. One night my husband played the Wii before bed and after we'd turned out the lights and gone to sleep the alarm on the sensor bar went off - it was loud enough to wake us up and the Wii is in a different floor of the house than our bedroom. So turn that off when you're done if you don't want the alarm going off.