First off you can buy rechargable batteries with a little charger, relatively cheap. Second, I don't know anyone who has bought four wiimotes for their system, sure they are out there, but most people don't, Warioware and Rayman were mentioned, two games that don't even have multiplayer with more then one controller, I've only played hotseat multiplayer in these games and in Wario there are games where one person holds the wiimote while the other holds the nunchuk. For Dragon Ball Z and future fighting games I've been using my old gamecube controllers for multiplyaer, so there is definitly other options, cheaper options. Don'[t pretend you need four wiimotes and nunchucks to enjoy the system(most people will never own that, and the ones that do play 4 player will most likely do it with someone else that owns the system that can bring a controller over) And just because the Wii is known for being family friendly as far as I'm concerned Nintendo has always been about the single player experience, Zelda, Mario, Metroid, sure you have your Mariokarts, and such but so far thats not even coming to the Wii.