Third-party Wii component cables for under $7

I placed my order yesterday after reading about this on Engadget. The cheapest total with S&H was $22, but I opted for 3 day delivery and paid $35.31 which was still cheaper than anything I could have gotten from Nintendo/Retail. I figure whatever small price in quality (if any) will be worth it to get the cables 3 weeks earlier than I would otherwise. Here's to hoping they ship on the 30th like anticipated.

My component cables from nintendo.com are scheduled to arrive Wednesday, which is a damn good thing since I finally procured a Wii yesterday morning (courtesy of a three-hour wait in line in the freezing cold at a Best Buy) but I'm waiting for the component cables to play Zelda.

They aren't $7 bucks because it is $17 shipping.

Yay!

My cables from Nintendo only came to $36.95 for two day shipping. Doesn't seem like this deal is that great. Hopefully mine will be coming this week.

Nintendo, are you hearing this? People want games to look good? Who knew!

I'm a Nintendo fan, but I'm not above criticising the company's mistakes. They should have anticipated the demand for component cables, and should have manufactured more of them.

caveat emptor; progressive scan through component is still an analog signal, and is much more beholden to signal loss and poor image quality, things that are exacerbated further by cheap cables. this isn't like buying a generic hdmi cable for your ps3. at least with hdmi, it's digital, so if it works, generally it works as it's supposed to (and this is coming from someone who was dumb enough to buy monster optical cable when he was first setting up his surround setup). i would wait for a review or two before i threw down 20 dollars on what very well may be crap. i understand the impulse to get them, as i won't be picking up a wii until i'm at least able to get the component cables as well, but sometimes it's good to go first party (or at least someone trusted).

Best Buy has component cables on friday that are 25 bucks. NO shipping, because you walk in and buy them. Also, no waiting for it to be shipped. Friday morning, picking those up, playing Zelda in all its glory.

Looks good, hasn't taken them long to bring em out!

Joystiq... make a review of the differentes brands of cables... im very confused with all this brands, best buys have two diffenets brands, then the nintendo's brand, the this Blaze brands....

It doesn't cost $17 to ship a cable from Hong Kong. I ordered a cable from play-asia.com a few weeks ago and it cost me ~ $4.50 for the shipping.

I was in the processing of ordering these when I discovered I would be raped on the shipping. My HDTV has an upconverter that makes it look damn good over composite, so I can wait.

480p over any component cable should be fine unless you have an unusally long connection. Its when you move into 720p or 1080i/p over component that you should start investing in better quality cables; or, buy something with an HDMI port.

These cables probably cost $1 to make in large quantities.

I got the super generic $5 PS2 component cable from Lik-sang (R.I.P.) with my modded PS2. I mean the wires going to the RCA plugs look like they are the same ones on a cheap pair of headphones, but the picture quality (on my 480i TV) is great and looks no worse than with the Sony cables (I tried using my buddies just to make sure) So, like dude said, until you get up to the true HD shit (720/1080) which won't happen with Wii, don't sweat it! People are out there using paper clips and 'gator clips and getting a good picture for pete's sake.

#8:
Do not worry so much! Analog or not, there's not much chance that interference can screw up such a low-resolution signal as the Wii's, unless this 3rd-party cable is exceedingly bad.

I run my 360 on the standard MS component cable. At 720P (which is more than twice the number of pixels compared to Wii), there's not a hint of interference on my LCD widescreen TV.

Do not listen to monster cable propaganda, HDMI is great indeed, but it doesn't show its superiority unless one pushes the boundaries a bit. Analog is good enough at lower resolutions and refresh rates.

Nintendo knows that their fans dont care if their games look like crap, so why do they care?

Bunch of fuckin idiots

ummm... SDTV ftw? >_>

"Product Features of Wii Component Cable"
"# High quality cable included"

Thank god the cable is included.

"# Multiple HD modes: 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080i"

Um... what?

And I noticed that a lot of HK stores do this, ESPECIALLY on ebay. They'll have something on sale for $4.99, but then shipping is supposedly $30 or whatever.

mnugghuhx

Where did you get the info that Best Buy would have them in this Friday? Where can I find that posted?

yes, mnugghuhx, please do share where you got that info from!

The Best Buy near me said they had 'expected' the cables to arrive with the last shipment (this past weekend) but they didn't... They couldn't provide more information.