I third the rechargeable batteries thing. I prefer it over the charger for Wii as I often have 4 people over playing and if one Wiimote dies midway through a game you are stuck. Also, as was mentioned earlier, the Wiimotes are battery hogs and I couldn't in good conscience throw that much away. I just picked up a 20 pack of rechargeable and was good to go. I also traded out some batteries in my mouse and keyboard to rechargeable now as well to help shrink my global footprint. I have had them all from Atari, NES, Genesis, N64, Playstation and PS2. Where I am in my life the Wii is the most fun since I am far from a hardcore gamer but love a few games. I love my Wii for the ease of play. Not to say all of the games are children's games, but they are the most fun games ever. Also, being able to download classic games to the Wii (old NES, SNES, N64, ect) to the system has been AWESOME!