Comments on: Wii-ve Got A Problem

By: MarkvsKutch

MarkvsKutch — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:41:14 +0000

Dude…You don’t have to swing it that hard…Just flick your wrist nerd

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:18:55 +0000

My son is 10, and our latest issue was when the wii controller strap broke and cracked the LCD screen on a $4000 TV. YES THE STRAP BROKE. He did not throw it, he was swinging it like a bat. And mind you, my son does not hit past 2nd base in the real word, so . . . .if you think the straps don’t break with little force . . . .FYI . . you are wrong.

By: Graham Hill

Graham Hill — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:31:24 +0000

Karl

Difficult this one. If the Wii really is as good as Nintendo make out, then people are going to get emotionally involved and perhaps even a wee bit carried away. I am sure Nintendo have recognised this in their development process.

Then they need to test the device over time in realistic situations to see how people really behave when playing. I am sure Nintendo did this to the best of their abilities with prototype controllers and prototype games.

Then they need to get the thing into production to meet strict manufacturing cost targets. That’s often where tough prototypes turn into not-so-tough real products.

The real problems looks like one of balancing the right to buy the Wii with the responsibility to use it, well, responsibly. And the US’ product safety laws which encourage frivolous lawsuits for over-zealous use.

Graham Hill

By: Chris Stock

Chris Stock — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:30:22 +0000

the wii is the worst thing i ever saw. i think they are going to lose more monye than gane because the law suits this guy r going to have. go to youtube.com and look onder wii got a prolem like there is one guy i saw on a video that can sue for 1-10 million because his hand was cut bad. i think if some is walking and a snap of a wii brakes and hits the person in tempole he would be dead … if it went fast

WII IS STUIP

By: Tero Paananen

Tero Paananen — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:53:14 +0000

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/15/nintendo-recalls-3-2-million-wii-straps/

Nintendo is recalling the straps and replacing them with stronger ones.

By: karl long

karl long — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:15:25 +0000

Nice, thanks for pointing that out Tero, I swear I didn’t fake that one up If I had a wiimote and a wii i’d be playing the hell out of it as opposed to faking accidents.

By: Tero Paananen

Tero Paananen — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:34:07 +0000

Oh, and there’s the third kind of Wiimote accident.

The fake kind. Like the one pictured in Karl’s post. There is NO way that is real.

By: Tero Paananen

Tero Paananen — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:33:10 +0000

From what I understand there’s basically two ways Wiimote accidents happen.

One where the user didn’t even bother putting the wrist wrap on. That’s entirely the user’s fault.

And then there are the incidents where the wrist wrap was on, but it broke. This one has “sub-categories” (man, I’m so over-analyzing, but I can’t help it…). If the user leaves the strap loose, it’s not gonna work as intended. If the user leaves it too loose, it could even slip off the wrist entirely while playing, and any controller motion is going to exert much more stress to the strap than if the user strapped it as tight as possible.

In any case you’d have to be swinging that thing pretty damn hard for it to slip off your hand. Or have extremely slippery hands, which I could totally see happening. A Wii Sports Bowling session gets you sweating pretty quick…Wii Sports Boxing MUCH quicker.

Nintendo is addressing the wrist strap breaking problems though. The newer controllers are coming with a much thicker strap.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:27:27 +0000

Icall tell you without a doubt that you have got to be a bonafide RETARD to do that to your remote. First off Anyone who plays that hard is not understanding the motion sensors inside the remote. if you need to turn left in your car do you jam the wheel as hard as possible to the left or do you grab it and just yank as hard as you can. Duh! I’ve had a Wii since day one and maybe I’m just not a meat-head but there has never been any kind of impact into anything. Maybe I don’t flail my arms around like a retarded baboon having a seizure while i play or maybe, it’s just that it takes all kinds of people to make the world go ’round.

By: Micheal

Micheal — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:13:34 +0000

I got a Wii , and i had not have any problem like this
i had drop it a few times lol ( cuz i didnt use the strap )
looking at all this pixs and videos , not to be on any side
but ppl really have to notice thier surrounding ..
and being stuck on the side on the TV ? must have been flying 60mph lol , u do not have to use force on the wii controller