Wii Straps SCANDAL!

Are leftys complaining about the wii mote? Is it reversible?

Steve should have linked to wiikilledmytv but it doesn't seem to be responding.

Next up: The Wiimote Cockring. Will it break if you swing it too hard?

I just don't get how these straps are breaking. I worked at Nintendo's testing group and I've never heard of any strap breaking. Granted we didn't get as into it as some people, but when we wanted, we still really got into it.

Has anyone thought that if they make the strap stronger and stronger then eventually the remote itself is going to snap instead? There comes a point when the forces involved are too much to reasonably do anything about.

Or they have to make the remote itself stronger as well as the strap. Make everything out of kevlar. So when you spaz out and throw it at the wall it actually tears right through your wrist, taking your hand clean off, leaving you bleeding to death all over your HDTV. Is that what you want? Is it? Is it reeaaaallly?

:-)

Maybe a better solution to all of this is some kind of glove that you wear that the remote fits into and cannot come out of, so it cannot leave the palm of your hand but your fingers are still free to move? Or just tape the fucker to your hand with duct tape before every session, if you've had a bit to drink or are getting too enthusiastic.

Is there a new metroid game in nintendo wii

I really don't see how people can be so stupid. Been playng my Wii since about 4 days after relase and have never once felt like the thing was going to slip out, even after playing for hours.

Yay for Steve doing the news again. That's fun.

I recently broke a strap on my wiimote sending it flying by my HDTV into a window shade. No damage, but it made me realize how people could be doing it.

Of course, this was at like 1am after I came home drunk with my girlfriend and she kept on striking me out in baseball and I started swinging as hard as I could out of frustration. :)

So, yes, I was in a state of mind I am not normally in, and using the remote in a manner it should not be used it (I _did_ have the strap securely attached), but at the same time, I am a big fan of the stronger straps... I would hate to lose a $2k TV due to the few times I, or one of my friends, uses the remote in an unsafe manner.

stop being sweaty nerds to be honest.

This is impressive customer service from Nintendo. I think most sane people would argue that, if you break the strap on your Wiimote, you're doing something wrong. Yet Nintendo is fixing them for free.

I can imagine MS denying there is a problem ("Strap failures are only 3%, far below the industry average") while quietly replacing early-production straps. Sony would tell us we're lucky to be able to own something as wondrous as the PS3 and that we should work overtime to buy a special armored TV to use with our PS3.

I don't even have my straps installed. Flicking my wrists playing Tennis or slashing monsters in Zelda is not a dangerous activity.

haha well i knew it was coming. check the headline.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

To anyone wondering why Nintendo is catering to stupid people. Rember that the safety bar on lawnmowers is from stupid people trying to lift their mowers to trim their bushes and getting hurt. Businesses must cater to the lowest denominator :/

This new thicker strap is actually bundled with the European versions of the Wii packages.

ahah oh my god there is a story about this on CNN right now

wiimote ate my lunch

I still think a number of people who claim to have broken a strap simply weren't wearing it, and then decided to cut the cord to shift blame to someone else...

The Wii's remote simply doesn't weigh enough to reasonably generate that much force while playing something like bowling in Wii Sports.

I think of the wrist strap on the wiimote like a seatbelt in an automobile. Its there to prevent accidents. However, it is not a guarantee. Wearing your seatbelt does not guarantee that you will come out of a car crash alive or unhurt. Just like wearing the wrist strap does not guarantee that you will not throw your wiimote and damage it or things.

You don't get to sue automobile makers because your loved ones died in a car wreck even though they wore a seatbelt. The same should be true for Nintendo and the wrist strap.

Remote puts out an eye! film at 11.

Guys, it's perfectly plausible for straps to break and for people to otherwise fling the thing around. In fact, I'd say that statistically it's guaranteed to happen given the fact that you have to make (vigorous) arm motions with it.

Just think about baseball, for example. Out of the thousands of at-bats every season there must be several dozen instances of thrown bats. The player is obviously not intending to throw it and has as firm a grip on the bat as might be expected, but when you're swinging a bat around and you do it enough times it's definitely going to fly out of your hands sooner or later. Same thing with the Wii controller.

dont let go of the wiimote while you are swinging it around. problem solved. this has never been an issue for me. a lot of people out there must have a girlie man grip or something.

learn2grip things

This is making Nintendo look back, unjustly so. The human race is doomed to failure, surely!

Most british tabloids today had big articles called "NINTENDO TO CONSUMERS: WII SCREWED UP" which makes it sound like they've accidentally included radioactive polonium in every console by accident.

Kudos to the Big N for doing this.

I let go of the remote once with my hand during a rousing game of homerun derby with friends and the mini strap still held. So people must have been chewing on it beforehand or something. O_o

Also, people are clumsy and some are just plain dumb.

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