Nyko announces Wii Party Station
Though Nyko remained pretty true to the bread and butter of console accessories (controllers, accessory kits, coolers) at this year's E3, the company did show off a prototype accessory we never would have expected to see realized in the flesh. Nyko's Party Station for the Wii was conceived as a coffee table centerpiece of Wii gaming, providing a focal point and various utilities for the social environment group Wii-gaming creates.
The battery powered base station rocks a wide variety of features including mundane things like slots for 4 Wiimotes and a storage drawer for nunchucks and accessories. Rather uniquely, the station also sports things like a bowling-lane-style hand cooling fan, 4 numeric LEDs displays for keeping track of group scoring, four freeze-able cup holders, and almost bizarrely, a center bowl for holding chips and dips.
We've honestly never seen anything like it, but the Wii is certainly a social console and we think this modified pyramid of Wii-worship would be pretty fun at a Wii-themed party. Nyko is currently revising the design to allow for a bigger chip dish area and is hoping to eventually get the product out the door with a gift / impulse friendly tentative $24.99 MSRP.
Source: IGN
