The Wii is Here.

[Buttoxin]

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You all know that Squeek is right. You don't need to have it on standby mode. Becides, when you turn on your Wii, you can get all those emails and stuff and you don't have to have it on.

[SethSquall]

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The Wii won 6 baftas over here, which is cool. Shame the award show is fucking terrible.

[BlackyChan2473]

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Man Daniel, you're really pissed about that fan huh? Well at least you'll get it back in time for me to demolish you when Brawl comes out.

[SethSquall]

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What are the benefits of leaving it on? I don't know of any.

Heck, I keep my wireless router unplugged too. Why would I want an open wireless connection all day and night? So someone can send me a message or a picture?

Some things still update like the wii channels. I think think you can download things like demos and such on the 360 and PS3 when it's on standby. So it's nice that while your out and about your console is updateing itself I guess. Saves you coming home and having to wait.

[zidart]

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What are the benefits of leaving it on? I don't know of any.

Heck, I keep my wireless router unplugged too. Why would I want an open wireless connection all day and night? So someone can send me a message or a picture?

well my friends and family send me some messages and pictures....and when i forget what assignment i have to do for school i send a message to my friends.

and besides i don't have problem leaving it on, besides i hate to wait a lot of time to download the questions, news or the forecast it just downloads automatically when i start playing.

[Squeek]

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What are the benefits of leaving it on? I don't know of any.

Heck, I keep my wireless router unplugged too. Why would I want an open wireless connection all day and night? So someone can send me a message or a picture?

[nforcer06164]

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I have an idea!

Turn the console off when you're not using it.

Appliances shouldn't have standby modes. It's stupid. Disable it. There's so little reason to leave the console on and so many reasons why turning it off is a good idea.

Heck, I just can't stand to see the red light on when I'm not using it, so I unplug it when I'm done.

@Nforce: http://kotaku.com/search/wii%20overheat/

Hey Squeek, some people like to use WiiConnect24. You said yourself that you're just paranoid of leaving electronics of any sort on at night.

PS http://kotaku.com/search/wii%20overheating/

[Squeek]

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I have an idea!

Turn the console off when you're not using it.

Appliances shouldn't have standby modes. It's stupid. Disable it. There's so little reason to leave the console on and so many reasons why turning it off is a good idea.

Heck, I just can't stand to see the red light on when I'm not using it, so I unplug it when I'm done.

@Nforce: http://kotaku.com/search/wii%20overheat/

[nforcer06164]

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It has never made news on any gaming blog site I frequent. Not once.

These same blogs report every problem that occurs with the PS3 and 360, no matter how minor it is, to make sure their readers know about them in advance.

Then you missed it, because I'm sure it had to appear on Kotaku at some point. I pretty positive that that's where I first got the news.

[SuperSonicX]

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If you were going to send it to Nintendo, why did you buy the $10 fan?

The reason why is because I thought the fan would be quiet as the built in one but the fan is too damn loud when in use and I don't wanna hear it while the Wii is off and Wiiconnect24 is on. Plus it takes up both of the USB ports on the back of the console and only leaves one open on its side so that's why I'm sending it off so I won't have to hear this thing sound like a vacuum everytime I turn it on.

[Squeek]

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It has never made news on any gaming blog site I frequent. Not once.

These same blogs report every problem that occurs with the PS3 and 360, no matter how minor it is, to make sure their readers know about them in advance.

[nforcer06164]

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I've never heard of someone's Wii actually overheating.

Whatever caused it to overheat is going to happen again with or without the fake attachment. Confined space? On its side? Both? They can cause it. But like I said, the system will feel hot but nothing will happen.

The console uses less electricity than a light bulb. I don't see how it can overheat.

Squeek, I don't know whether your serious or just ignorantly biased. There's been reports where the Wii overheats during standby and damaging the GPU. It happens without the fans being blocked, and the fact that it only happens during standby makes that a non-issue. Do a quick search on Google. It's a known issue.

[Squeek]

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If you were going to send it to Nintendo, why did you buy the $10 fan?

[SuperSonicX]

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I've never heard of someone's Wii actually overheating.

Whatever caused it to overheat is going to happen again with or without the fake attachment. Confined space? On its side? Both? They can cause it. But like I said, the system will feel hot but nothing will happen.

The console uses less electricity than a light bulb. I don't see how it can overheat.

The fan on the back of the Wii stopped working while I was playing Smash Brothers Melee then it all of a sudden just shut off leaving me clueless. Now I have to ship it to Nintendo for repair so that at least I can at least sit in the Wii menu with out it burning up like a thanksgiving turkey.

[Squeek]

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I've never heard of someone's Wii actually overheating.

Whatever caused it to overheat is going to happen again with or without the fake attachment. Confined space? On its side? Both? They can cause it. But like I said, the system will feel hot but nothing will happen.

The console uses less electricity than a light bulb. I don't see how it can overheat.