The new Wii bag from Atlantic is pretty nice. We like the stripe, and the messenger bag design. We have no objection to this product. Were we the type to travel with consoles, we would seek out something like this.
But the other new addition to their Gamekeeper line ... okay. Forget that every single Wiimote includes a wrist strap. Forget that these straps are constantly improved upon and sent out at no charge. If you were going to design a Wii wrist strap, what would it look like? Here, we'll make it multiple choice: A) a strap, or B) an improvised carpal-tunnel wrist brace made out of bowling shoes.
If you answered B, you work for Atlantic. But you knew that! We're being hard on Atlantic, but the truth is we respect any company that sees an opportunity to capture a market that, at the moment, doesn't seem to exist. And that's not sarcasm. Maybe the thing really helps! Maybe this removes that last .05% possibility of Wiimote slippage among people who already wear wrist straps. Or maybe Atlantic just had a surplus of hot pink nylon.
[Via GoNintendo]
But the other new addition to their Gamekeeper line ... okay. Forget that every single Wiimote includes a wrist strap. Forget that these straps are constantly improved upon and sent out at no charge. If you were going to design a Wii wrist strap, what would it look like? Here, we'll make it multiple choice: A) a strap, or B) an improvised carpal-tunnel wrist brace made out of bowling shoes.
If you answered B, you work for Atlantic. But you knew that! We're being hard on Atlantic, but the truth is we respect any company that sees an opportunity to capture a market that, at the moment, doesn't seem to exist. And that's not sarcasm. Maybe the thing really helps! Maybe this removes that last .05% possibility of Wiimote slippage among people who already wear wrist straps. Or maybe Atlantic just had a surplus of hot pink nylon.
[Via GoNintendo]
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10-04-2007 @ 10:24AM
Anticrawl said...
I am the traveling type with my consoles but to buy a console specific bag it has to be really hot. I usually travel with my 360 because my Wii is far to precious. i don't know if I could handle scratching that beauty. Same problem I've been having since I got the DS Lite and gave the girlfriend my DS Phat, afraid the weather or my clumsiness might be its undoing. They do have invisible skins though from a place called "invisible shield" which are pretty nice and don't cover up the pretty color but man are they a bitch to apply. On the topic of traveling with consoles, I usually just through the 360 in a backpack since I don't really care to much about scuffing it up since I'm on my second console (which is lucky I guess since my first one just poofed a few months ago and was a launch console).
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10-04-2007 @ 6:05PM
Jeremy said...
I have carried my Wii with me when visiting family and I want to show it off. But for starters this bag looks soft. My local Walmart sells a carrying case for the Wii that is hard on the outside and has a foam lining on the inside that the Wii fits snugly into. I think that if you are going to carry a console make sure that it is in something that if dropped it will still be safe.
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