Dual Charging Station (Wii)

February 20, 2008 | By Doug In Wii |

Dual Charging Station (Wii)
Customer Review: what does the picture show?
Just about to get Wii and looking at charger unit. There appears to be 2 chargers out at present - another made by 4gamers and this one. Is this made by Nintendo or not? Also what is shown in the picture? Is the thing on the left a nunchuck and if so is it getting charged? Are there lights on the unit to show when it is charged? If is charging battery packs up what are the 2 white things in the left of the picture? Are these battery packs and do they replace what comes with the wiimotes? Someone out there help!!

Customer Review: It’s okay
My main problem with this is what a waste of energy, the USB connector means that the Wii has to be on (at least in standby) to charge the battery packs meaning that you waste energy powering the wii to charge the remotes. This is fine if you have 2 remotes and play 1 player games swapping the packs around but if you play 2+ player games and wear down the packs you’ll need to keep the wii on once you’ve finished playing until they’re charged which seems utterly pointless.

Other than that it does what it says on the box, I find it takes about 3 hours to fully charge the battery pack and the pack dies after around 4 hours but I guess that depends on the game you’re playing as to how much the wiimote is used. I’m sure there are better products out there that can be charged independently of the Wii, retrospectively I’d buy them instead as this will probably cost more in powering the wii than the extra cost.

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