One thing I haven't noticed mentioned on many blogs about the Wii is the Wiimote's special ability to suck all the power out of all the alkaline AA batteries located in your house. Seriously. It devours batteries like some kind of energy vampire -- especially playing Zelda, where almost everything you do has a rumble action to it. In the past couple of weeks, we've gone through many sets of batteries. Luckily littlestar had some rechargeable AA's so we switched to those fairly early on. On Zelda, the average set of 2 AA batteries lasted anywhere from 6 to 18 hours, mostly dependent on the activation of the rumble feature -- Duracells and Energizers seem to work fairly well, but the packed in Maxxell and Panasonic batteries they give you to start off with don't last very long.
In fact, this Christmas, it may be wise to invest in some rechargeable batteries before unpacking the Wii -- else one might find all there remote controls and flashlights batteries cannibalized by the Wii.
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