Wii sensor bar is not so Wii, it's huge

[Spud1]

What worries me is the possibility that the Wii will be available in different configurations - ala the 360/ps3. For example the 200$ model might only come with a wired controller..which you could get as an extra. This could bump up the price considerabley..

[Steven W]

This is what is already known (might help with some of the incorrect speculation in the article):

- The sensor bar IS required for the controller to work. The controller has an infra-red transmitter on it and the bar uses this to triangulate the positon of the remote in 3d space.
- The remote itself will use bluetooth to transmit info to the console.
- The remote also has solid state 6-axis gyros and accelerometers in it to deal with all the tilting and actions.

As far as im aware, the booths at E3 DID have the sensor bars, they were setup below the TV though and it caused a few problems with tall people.
The booths at E3 also used dev kits (basically Camecubes), not actual Wii hardware as ATi hasn't finished the GPU for the Wii. This is probably why the remotes were wired.

hope this helps

Cheers, any feedback is appreciated. As far as I know the wired controllers were those in the press area for some reason.