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Best Way To Manage Growing Console Clutter?
An anonymous reader writes "Being the owner of several actively-used consoles, I have found myself in a perpetual state of tangled cords and controller 'land mines' when it comes to my living room. With each console supporting four controllers, and a couple of games having their own unique peripherals, this is becoming more and more of a problem. It's not so much that there isn't a place for all of this. as it is that there isn't a place that's visually pleasing, big enough to survive the growing collection, easy to use, and most importantly, cheap. I find myself having to untangle cords or digging through a box/drawer. no matter what solution I try. What have Slashdot readers resorted to when it comes to keeping all of this in check?"
Put the consoles in a convenient closet, no power needed. Put all the controllers neatly wrapped in their cables on top of the consoles or in their respective boxes. Then simply stop playing games and go out into the big blue room...
Want to shoot at things, you can learn to use a gun and try some real skill, even in a shooting range(not my thing thou). Want beat the crap out of things with your excellent ninja skills, go learn some asian martial arts(no me either). Want to just beat people over the head with a longsword and watch the sparks fly when you parry a strike, learn european martial arts(more my thing, lookup aemma or something similar). Want to race, many speedways allow people to race stock and modified cars in drag and other races on certain days(I know one nearby that does stock drags).
Basically, I've never seen the need for a computer game except in a few random areas where it just ain't going to happen( conquering the universe in just a couple of hours ) or it's basically the same experience (solitair anyone?).
Put the games away and go have some fun, probably cost you the same doing it, and trust me, real life is better then virtual in all things except death.
Enjoy!
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You have your living room choked full of this electronic goodnes and even dare to boast about it on the frontpage of /. ?!
i ty?!
Think about all the starving ethiopian kids who could have been saved if you donated the money of the XBox to them instead of whining here how bad you have it when the wires tangle!
And why don't these guys work on something usefull for everyone, like Linux, instead of this useless piece of HurdBSDobscureInterestingProjectNotMainstreamNerd
Sheesh...
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I'm not sure what PS2 third parties have to offer in terms of wireless control, but Nintendo's first-party Gamecube Wavebird is an excellent product - no visible lag, and amazing battery life (I've had it for months, maybe a year, and only replaced the batteries once).
Of course, there are times when it cuts out for a brief moment due to what I can only assume is interference from the other miscellaneous wireless signals blasting through my home, but nothing's perfect.
Glog!
Well beyond wireless controllers or putting the controllers away after a gaming session is over, what other solutions can you offer?
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