2. Again give it time. There will be plenty of online offerings once the console is established. Network code can be extremely trick to get right. The potential is there for some amazing online experiences.

3. There’s not alot you can do about that but adjust your playing style, or wait till they come out with a wireless nunchuk. I find that you don’t really need to swing your arms about too much for the boxing, a flick of the wrist generally does the trick, like your playing a drum roll. Not only does this negate any restriction of movement from the cable it also lets you get alot of punches in in quick succession.

4. As I have explained to one of my friends who was bemoaning the apparent lack of control. Its a software issue, simple as that. Remember that most developers have been used to coding for a 2d interface/control system and now they have to deal with a whole other dimension. The Wii is so far the only machine that delivers a truly 3D gaming experience and the games designers have to adjust to that. As the software (and possibly firmware) improves you’ll find that the control improves. There is also the aspect that if they made it too sensitive it would be nigh on unusable and the fact that it being such a different way of controlling a game or interface your body has to learn how to use it. It may seem simple on the surface but there are whole muscle groups that your body isn’t used to using in that context which have to be trained. You’ll probably find that as you play with your Wii your control will improve, along with the software being refined and the developers getting used to the system.

I didn’t say anything about being restricted between my hands. What I did say was that it sometimes throws off my movement (should have said “in subtle ways”). But that’s not because of length restriction (tightness).

Perhaps the main problem is mostly mental, but it still affects my play simply in virtue of it being annoying. Next time you play, try to think about how things would be different if you didn’t have the wire, and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.

No, the point is that if I jab my “racket” in tennis in a particular direction, say, out to the right, the ball doesn’t go out to the right. the only things that i seem to have control of in Tennis are 1) the timing of my swing and 2) the speed of my swing. In real tennis, a lot of times you don’t swing all the way through the shot, especially on finesse shots.

2.) I don’t think there is online play because there is really no use for it (yet). For example, how do you tie Red Steel into online play? You can’t. If you do, it would be a terrible game. I don’t care how you do it. MAYBE a game like Elebits would benefit, but come on. Who competitively tries to capture electric creatures. Excite Truck is the only game I can think of that would really have a good reason to go online, and that game’s not that great.

3.) I don’t know how tall you are, but if you’re restricted between your hands while playing Wii Boxing, then you are either playing it wrong or are just really huge. I mean seriously. When you box, your hands are generally in front of your head. If you’re flailing your arms so wildly that they’re over a third of a meter to the left or right of your head, there’s obviously something wrong with your strategy. No offense.

4.) Once again, it is quite possible that if you are angling your upper cuts outwards instead of inwards at your Wii Boxing opponent, you have some bad gesture recognition. I’ve rarely had ANY bad gesture recognition.

If you’re looking for a game that is very good with the way it recognizes your gestures, try Elebits (if you haven’t already). It is THE BEST I’ve played so far.

That’s silly, if you use the force to give direction, how can you select the swing force?
The tennis game has the best controls ever.

I’m worried about on-line play btw…