Comments on: Review: VTech V-Motion Active Learning System

By: Mike from Oakville

Mike from Oakville — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:01:16 +0000

Vtech did a good job fooling everyone with those commercials making this out to be comparable to the WII. However quality wise it’s poor. The graphics leave a lot to be desired, but the worst part is we’ve gone through 2 controllers. On the first one the joystick stopped working so I went to walmart to get a 2nd and that one worked for a whole week. VTech wants me to spend more money by mailing it to them for a replacement. I’ll just keep returning them to walmart. Save your money for something else.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:54:36 +0000

No.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:26:20 +0000

As noted in our review, the motion controlling doesn’t work real well. We don’t even bother testing games with it most of the time.

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:56:46 +0000

Has anyone else had problems with the controllers in the motion controller mode? We can play games just fine in the joystick mode, but the system does not respond in motion mode? Any suggestions?

By: Laquita

Laquita — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:18:30 +0000

I love the system my little boy has learned so much..you guys do need to come out with more games. Also 24 bucks is a little on the expensive side thinks about it ..it os bad enough that you only have 8 games now you want an arm and a leg for thoses. low the price i say amd tell then te sysytem is good but they need to get over them self

By: Alhea

Alhea — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:17:17 +0000

We have bought both the vsmile and the vmotion for our nephew. When we first got the vsmile the power button stopped working we took it back and exchanged it. Then the 2nd one stopped working too. It had been to long to return so we were out 50 bucks. Then we bought him the vmotion for his birthdfay. He played it 3 times and it is not only having the same problem but also other ones. We are taking it back and never being vtech again. He is so dissapointed.I am angry.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:47:27 +0000

We received a V-Motion for our 3 1/2 year old this past Christmas. The games are very educational and he has a great time playing them. However we do have concerns over system stability. Last month, there were intermittent issues where the system would not start, and when it did start, the games would not load properly. After trying a few troubleshooting suggestiong from VTech it was determined that the system was faulty so we returned it to V-Tech for repair/replacement.

By: Torontonian

Torontonian — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:27:18 +0000

Thanks for the review. We bought this system for Christmas for our 4yr old son. He previously showed interest in playing our little $10 classic Namco 5-in-1 TV game, but he had trouble with joystick.

So we thought that V-Motion would be great for him because of motion controller and simple game play.

Just like in your review we found that he preferred operating joystick over motion controller. I personally found that controller is a bit laggy, but it is probably the game itself (Kung Fu Panda).

I also was quite disappointed with the graphics. The 5-in-1 classic TV game I mentioned previously looks better on my TV (32″ LCD) than this console. It might be the smoothing of all those huge pixel blocks that is done better on 5-in-1 than on V.Motion.

By: carolyn

carolyn — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:31:31 +0000

Bought V-Motion for grandaughter she loves it. Very educational.

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:38:28 +0000

I am utterly baffled. I bought a VMotion to keep at my house for my grandchildren. I even paid for expedited shipping so it would arrive before they come to spend this weekend. Plug in and play? NOT! Am I missing something?
Tried with both batteries and then with AC adapter. Thought that might be the problem. Cables are all in appropriate places on the TV. Unit lights up, wireless controller lights up and is in sync with the unit. Game is inserted correctly. Nothing happens! What am I doing wrong? I have DirecTV. Could that be an issue? Don’t know what else it could be. Please… HELP!
Pam