Nintendo Sued for Strap Issues

Quit swinging your Wii Remotes at mach 6 people! Don't blame the strap for it not staying in your hand.

Funny thing is, if this happened to Sony, we'd all be laughing.

Wipe your hands before you pick up the remote, you fucking morons!

I hate lawyers, when jackasses like this go to sleep at night what do they think "yeah today I really contributed to society"???

Wiimote + Bawls "bumps" = controller that won't drop?

further proof that you really can sue for anything...including blaming nintendo for your girly man grip.

You just have to wonder: if they never included a strap, would there be people crying? Just idiots who can't hold the control, I think. This is a real shame.

That didn't take long at all.

Anyone tried those rubbery covers for the wii controllers? Do they improve grip at all? I looked at some the other day and seriously considered getting them just in case I get a little too excited in baseball.

Even Phoenix Wright couldn't win this case.

The class action lawsuit seeks to enjoin Nintendo from continuing its unfair or deceptive business practices as it relates to the Nintendo Wii.The lawsuit also seeks an injunction that requires Nintendo to correct the defect in the Wii remote and to provide a refund to the purchaser or to replace the defective Wii remote with a Wii remote that functions as it is warranted and intended. If you would like additional information regarding the Nintendo WII Replacement Strap click here.

Done, done, and done. Case dmismissed.

Though I LOVE the fact that it's UNFAIR that Nintendo assumed that people can hold onto a piece of plastic whilst whipping it around, tethered to their hand.

While I believe it to be reasonable in some cases, I wonder if some of the internet cases involve people using the straps as handles and swinging the remotes around by the strap.

Isn't controller chucking a pasttime with Nintendo controllers?

This is so damn dumb

Sign up! In three years you may get a check for fifty cents, and these lawyers will make a bunch of money!

I blame Nintendo for the strap issue, but they're replacing them, so problem solved. I would feel bad if I had lost an expensive TV over it, but this lawsuit wouldn't ease that pain in the least.

Sadly common sense is not upheld in a court of law.

:<

That's right. Punish Nintendo for innovative controler development. Pretty soon innovation will be a pure liability.

... the wrist strap broke and caused the remote to leave the user's hand.

Oh yeah, of course. People are that dumb. This sole statement should be enough for the case to be dismissed. So stupid.

lol

when they used the Nintendo remote and wrist strap, as instructed by the material that accompanied the Wii console, the wrist strap broke and caused the remote to leave the user’s hand

How does that even make sense? the wrist strap can't break if the remote hasn't left your hand yet.

What gets me about the entire thing is why in the hell didn't Nintendo put some sort of rubberized grip on the thing?

Obviously somewhere in their testing labs someone threw one of these out of their hand during play; it is precisely why the strap is there in the first place.

But instead of a proactive solution, adding GRIP to the remote, some genius decided that a re-active strap solution would be the best option.

It's like putting a pillow on your handlebars because you don't have handlebar grips. Hell even Sony and Microsoft are smart enough to add grip like material to standard analog sticks and they will see nowhere near the activity that this Wii remotes go through.

Regarding the "get into the game thing", if Nintendo didn't experience people getting excited like this in their test labs then the clearly weren't testing with real gamers. I can speak from personal experience regarding this fact. My brother BROKE A CHAIR dodging rockets in quake, yes you read that right, physically dodging fictional rockets displayed on a static computer monitor. I absolutely guarantee he would break something with a Wii remote in exactly half a second.

"continuing its unfair or deceptive business practices"

Of making you click through a warning screen every time you load a game, of supplying a wrist strap, and of putting warnings in the manuals.

Those bastards!

Wow...just, wow.

I wonder if we could file a class action suit against humanity for being retarded? Jesus Christ, why even bother filing this suit?

I dont see how many people can prove in court that the wiimote broke their tv unless they've got video footage of it happening. My friend dropped his tv a few years ago and the front is all cracked. He still has it in his storage room. I suppose he could get in on this retarded lawsuit and claim the wii broke his tv so he could get a couple thousand bucks for a new one.

Am I correct in assuming that if Nintendo shipped the Wiimote with no strap at all and just assumed that people would not throw their controllers, there would be no basis for a lawsuit?

There is already a sign at walmart saying you get the free replacement. I hate lawyers.

I think it's ridiculous to sue them but I do agree they should have supplied stronger straps initially.

stop jerking off and play the wii idiots.

Hmm, Looks like this is almost two week old news. On the Green Welling site (Sounds like a frog, don't it?) they said they filed suit on Dec 6th. On Dec 7th Nintendo introduced the strap replacement plan, the contact form on th GW site also links to the Nintendo replacement form.

Not standing up for the lawyers, however the current replacement plan could be the response to the GW lawsuit.

On a side note, it would probably just be easier to string a shoelace through the remote, it's -even- thicker than the replacement ; ) Better yet notch some bungie cable through there so the remote can come back to hit you in the face.

I hope everyone involved in this lawsuit dies from a brain aneurysm.

What idiots are seriously going to even bother trying a class action lawsuit?

Even if they could even PROOVE that this isn't all just people being reckless.

Nintendo has already issued a free replacement plan, and a revision update.

The Judge is just going to say, look Nintendo realized their mistake, already took actions to correct the issue, case fucking dismissed.

http://www.classcounsel.com/

lol yeah they look like attn whores.

damnit i haven't even got one yet

the majority of these wiitard people just don't seem right in the head to me. I mean I just don't see very much of this as anything other then user caused, and I doubt a judge will either.

Standing by for my $0.50 coupon off retail-priced Wii accessories that I don;t need that I'll get from this great lawsuit. And also standing by for next year's $1.50 price increases due to increased legal costs by Nintendo.

free publicity

Way to suck the life out of something fun, legal system. This should be thrown out.