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 stopped working after 1 month August 31, 2010
S. DEWITT (Tampa, Fl)
It worked great the first week. Then it got weak. We had to jump around and move and really struggle to get the sensor to sense our controllers. We kept replacing the batteries (we made sure to turn it off after every play) and it would work good for a day or two and then it would not sense again. Now, after a month of use, even when the batteries are replaced and we do flips in front of the TV, it will not sense a thing and I am on-line buying another sensor bar. My recommendation is to not buy this item.
 excellent value, great product August 22, 2010
P. Yang
I was able to set it up easily and use it with the Dolphin Wii emulator on my PC.
Wii Wireless Sensor Bar August 16, 2010
Roya Delaney
The concept is great but the outcome is not. You have to change batteries way too often, even though it is off it's not.
Returned product for the original kind with wire, the kids like it much better.
 Allows for play up to 25 feet away...sometimes July 30, 2010
shaxper (Lakewood, OH)
I bought the Nyko wireless sensor bar for my Wii because I have a very long living room, with a couch roughly 18 feet away from my entertainment center, so a sensor bar promising to work up to 25 feet away sounded like exactly what I needed. Unfortunately, the sensor bar only works from that kind of a distance about half the time, and the rest of the time, it hardly works at all.
The problem is actually with the Wii's sensor technology itself. The bar doesn't actually sense anything. It merely contains infrared lights that the Wii remotes detect and then use to determine where they are in relation to the lights; they then communicate their location to the Wii. What this means is that, when you have a lot of natural sunlight pouring through your living room (which contains infrared light), this can mess with the Wii remotes' ability to sense the light from the sensor bar.
The bottom line: my Nyko wireless sensor bar works exceptionally well AT NIGHT, but during the day time, it is actually less effective than the traditional Wii sensor bar, requiring you to stand less than six feet in front of it in order to sense you, no matter how many times you reprogram the sensitivity settings on the Wii. Granted, this is only likely to be a problem if you get a lot of sun in the room where the sensor bar is. My solution has been to use the Nyko wireless sensor bar AND the regular Wii sensor bar right on top of it at the same time. This gives me average performance during the day and superior performance at night.
Also, despite what this thing promises, I've already made the mistake of leaving it on several times and have come back the next day to discover that it did not power itself off. I don't know if there's something defective about mine, but assume that your bar won't power off either. Even if it does, having to turn the bar on every time you turn on the Wii is a slight annoyance.
All in all, the biggest warning I can give you about this sensor bar is that it's results may certainly vary if the room in which you plan to use it gets a lot of sunlight. Don't be too quick to get rid of your old sensor bar. Using the two in combination is your best bet (unless the wire is the whole reason that you are getting this one).
 Range not as good as advertised July 29, 2010
P. Andrus (San Jose, CA)
This bar doesn't give the extended range that it advertises. I'm pretty disappointed in that. I get maybe 1 or 2 feet more out of this one than I did out of the standard wii sensor bar. Not cool.
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