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Does anyone have a recommendation for a Wii remote for a young child?

Feb 27, 2013 3:07 AM

My son is almost 3 and is starting to play the Wii with my wife and I (yes we still play our original Wii). He has some trouble holding the full-sized Wiimote and I would like to get him one that is properly sized for his smaller hands. It seems that Nintendo has stuck to the one-size-fits-most philosophy and made their remotes in only one size, which means any smaller one will be made by a third party. We all know that some third party items for the Wii are pretty good and some are outright garbage, so...
Has anyone used a smaller Wiimote that actually works as described? Motion plus would be cool but not a deal breaker if it is not included or available. We don't have a lot of games that need nunchuk so that doesn't really matter much.

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Fortunately, we have not needed a smaller size controller yet. Did not even know if they made that sort of thing - so will watch this thread to see if anyone has used them before and what they recommend.

In the meantime, I found this on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Kid-Friendly-Remote-Pack-Green-Nintendo/dp/B003E446HC

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@kophia: That is actually one I hadn't seen before. I've seen them in-store at Target and WalMart over the years, and seen them on various other websites as well. The big question I have is whether or not there is one made with any quality to it since Nintendo doesn't make one themselves.

One thing about the one you linked to that I don't like is the size of the "home" button (which of course will pause a Wii game). IMHO the home button on a kid's controller should be small and difficult to push by accident; that one did exactly the opposite.

Here is one I found on toyrsus.com that seems appealing for our little guy:
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11999729&searchURL=true#showReviews

However I have also had wildly varied results with the quality of disney-branded merchandise in the past two years.

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