What game were you trying to play? Something similar happened to me recently, and I think I know what's doing it. The reason why? No idea. Like Arnold and seth, I've had my Wii since launch and every time I went to launch the new Sin and Punishment game, the controller just wouldn't assign to player one. Tried re-syncing, no luck, so I just closed the Wii and tried again and it worked for some random reason.
And then I was trying to play two player with my bro and the second controller just would assign to player two UNTIL we press the Two Player option in the game. Really weird... o_O
Random game thought :
Why is Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 getting so much hate? We finally get a real game and they're not even satisfied... I'm starting to hate the gaming community so f****** much...
