http://www.gamingbits.com/content/view/1933/2/

Joytech is releasing a plastic cradle of sorts which joins the Wii remote and Nunchuk together to form a light gun. While this seems to be a shout out to the old NES lightgun, it remains to be seen if it will work as well as the original, and if Nintendo will even crank out more than three titles to even justify its existence. It does look cool, however, and I hope it works out well for them. I am rooting for this thing to be an awesome Wii FPS peripheral. If it does turn out well, I'll certainly buy one!

Tags : lightgun : Nintendo : Wii

Comments

By: Magus On: 12:09 Apr 11th, 2007 Offline	I'm getting this. I looked at the picture and started drooling. ^^ What's funny is that the first time I held the nunchuck, I thought to myself "This could be used as the handle on a gun, with the Z button as the trigger".

By: Samuel On: 03:06 Apr 11th, 2007 Offline	You would need to specifically design games around the setup. For instance, you couldn't play Red Steel with it, due to the controls. However, it looks pretty damn good, and is pretty clever.

By: Dragonfly On: 08:16 Apr 12th, 2007 Offline	It sounds like a decent idea, but experience with the Wii-Mote tells me that it can't accurately simulate a gun because it's targetting isn't judged by the screen, but a sensor, which would make the whole idea of "aiming" a much more flimsy one. Still, it has potential. We'll have to wait and see.

By: Jak On: 01:24 Apr 15th, 2007 Offline	Twenty quid for a piece of plastic? nothnx.

By: Corrine On: 11:05 Apr 15th, 2007 Offline	I'm not hardcore enough to find a use for this, the games probably won't appeal to me. If something turns out to be good though I may try it out. :)

By: Dragonsoul On: 12:00 Apr 16th, 2007 Offline	Meh. It looks cool...but what's the use of it in practice? It seems Nintendo is more concerned with finding new-fangled and funky-looking devices more than the actual gameplay. I could be wrong though seeing as I know near to nothing about the Wii. :P

By: Delibrete_14 On: 02:14 May 10th, 2007 Offline	WOW! A Wii GUN! who would have thought that Nintendo Wii is making a SNES comeback. I use to have a SNES gun but i do not know what happened to it? Have you seen it anywhere (sarcasime)