Second day with the Wii, more random thoughts and such:
It sucks that adding friends to your address book has to be two-way. It means you can't just message someone who doesn't have you in their address book as well—they have to first enter your Wii Number. You should be able to message someone if you know their Wii Number even if you're not in their address book. Or, at least, there should be an option to make yourself publicly message-able that way.
I've started to play Zelda. First thought: The graphics are piss poor. At first glance, Zelda looks worse than a Gamecube game to me. Granted, there are a few factors at work here: First, this is (or at least was originally) a Gamecube game and wasn't designed from the ground up for the (slightly) better hardware. Wii Sports looks better than Zelda in places. Second, the last time I played a Gamecube game it was on an old tube television and that helps a lot. Seeing Zelda in HD right now doesn't help it out at all. The textures are muddy and the poly count is very low. All that being said, the first few minutes of gameplay were fun. I'm sure the graphics thing will fade away in my brain. I bet going back to Gears of War after this will look photo-realistic in comparison (not that it's far from that anyway).
When you push the power button on a Wiimote to turn the Wii on, it turns the system on but the remote stays off. You have to push the button again (or another button) to turn the Wiimote on. That seems silly. If it knows to turn the system on, you'd think it would also check quickly to see if the system is now on and, if so, turn itself on. It's a tiny annoyance, but still.
There's no start button on the Wiimote. I think Nintendo was the first company to create a controller with a start button and this is the first one I've seen since without it. Because there's no start button, nearly all of the things I've played have you pressing A+B. That's so strange. It's fine, but weird.
Just got into combat for the first time in Zelda. Took a little getting used to, but it's kind of fun! Also, the more I play, the less the graphics bother me, although I still wish it was done in the style of Wind Waker (which I still think is one of the best looking games ever released).