While we initially felt Wal-Mart was being a bit old fashioned by not allowing Wii demo kiosks to be setup in stores due to "
safety concerns," Walton and friends apparently had a good bit of foresight that we weren't aware of. After
numerous reports of television sets getting the
axe, and an innocently bystanding HP iPAQ
getting all cracked up, we're wondering if folks aren't just staging their own Wiincidents at this point. Apparently
warning everyone of how jeopardous these free-flying
Wiimotes can be wasn't really taken to heart, as now a butterfingered gamer has quite an interesting tale to tell to the presumably skeptical insurance adjuster. While busting a few moves in Wii Sports, the nonsensical user let the controller fly, but instead of landing softly (and harmlessly) on the couch, it rocketed straight through his window, leaving a fairly dangerous scene as proof of gaming negligence. C'mon folks, we've warned you all enough by now, either strap on that thoughtfully included wrist strap, grab some
sticky gloves, or tape up the windows -- your property, your call.
[Thanks, Sean]
posted Nov 27th 2006 10:15AM
Dunno... This one seems plausible. How much can insurance possibly give him for the window?? Or am I just being insanely stupid here?
Plus, a sentence up there doesn't make sense, but I won't say which. :-)
I dont know, I think all these Wiimote accidents are bullshitski. Someone needs to capture this PHENOMENON on video.
There's a video of it happening on youtube, but to be honest I still don't believe it. I probably won't until it happens to me.
I would suggest getting the extra grippy accessory pack. You can put a gel grip skin over your wiimote and you can also use two lanyards instead of one if you let loose.
If people were playing real baseball in the yard, there would be less broken windows...
Hahahahahahaha
wii sports baseball all u need to do is flick ur wrist slightly and the ball throws the same speed as it does if u went all out....why can't these morons see that? i dont feel badfor them at all
this is getting silly how many are going to throw their wiimotes in the tv or out the window in this month alone? 10? 50? 1000?
I can't get enough of this... What I would like to see is a wii-mote go flying and smash a PS3.
Next up, Nintendo sell homeowners insurance for the wii....
They had to know that by encouraging full fledged movement this would be the result. I predict more to come. It sounds like a redesign of the wrist strap is in order here.
Collateral
If this was a sony product people would be all over this, but since it's not people are more forgiving.
Engadget has been screaming "FAKE" from the start of this whole series of incidents and so far all have proven REAL.
If this had been sony controllers everybody would be all over it.
Time to get some b***s and admit there's a problem with the straps (and human stupidity factor).
Sorry but I don't think that most insurance agencies offer insurance for stupidity.
UM.... can someone say PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY? You MUST hold onto the wiimotes, and can they seriously be that slippery? The wrist strap is a last resort type of thing, not a standard... I bet some nimrod thought they could get a faster ball if they flung the remote around by the strap, D'UH!!! Imagine the damage if someone let a wavebird fly??
LAME!
I have never even had the remote slip out of my hands. What do these people do, put some Vaseline on before playing video games or purposefully just throw it. These are people just trying to get something for nothing.
I call BS. You'd have to throw this extemely hard to break a window.
How come most of these Wiimote-destruction related news are from here in the US? Any news of Wii-mishaps from Japan?
"How much can insurance possibly give him for the window?? Or am I just being insanely stupid here?"
No, you're being smart - the homeowner's being stupid for filing a claim that's probably just going to get him blacklisted.
He's probably lying anyway. But filing claims that insurance companies consider either a) frivolous, or b) unreasonable is the easiest way to have your insurance canceled and/or your rates raised.
He should just suck it up and pay the $100 or whatever to replace that pane of glass.
Actually, the first two cases pretty much do look completely and totally fake(the strap looked cut, period) Most likely they didn't have their wrist strap on an didn't want to look like fools.
The next incident was the one with the girl that threw it into the wall, which resulted in a dented wall, and a shattered Wii that was able to be snapped back together and still work. The cord actually snapped away from the wrist strap, which is totally believable, though it wasn't actually recorded happening.
The next one was actually recorded, however it also recorded the fact that it was obviously done totally deliberately. His swing was definitely designed to snap the Wiimote strap rather than improve his game in any way.
The next case that I know involved someone putting their hand through a light fixture while playing. Definite need to be careful where you're playing, but not the fault of the wrist strap.
Of course, there were the various complaints of people getting tired playing with the Wii. This issue, if anything, points only to Wii being even more fun and interactive than they had claimed. You can still play just as effectively while only moving your wrist and nothing more, so if anyone is getting tired, all they need to do is step it back a pace.
This is the latest incident I've seen, but I don't know if he even had the wrist strap on at the time. I never noticed him specifically mentioning the wrist strap breaking, merely that it went through the window.
I kinda feel bad for him, as he basically did this to share an amusing and somewhat embarrassing story, yet he had the entire forum jump down his throat about it.
In this particular instance, I think that people have taken Engadget's review a bit too literally. When I checked out the actual article in question, I saw no references to insurance of any kind other than the fact that he would have to pay for getting his window replaced. Of course, Engadget speculated on the interesting tale that would be involved with the insurance adjuster, even though that was never mentioned otherwise. I think they fumbled a tad in trying to make this article stand out from the growing plethora of Wii related damage/injury incidents.
With how it has become almost fad to bring up frivolous lawsuits for personal gain, it's quite understandable for fans on Nintendo to get a trifle defensive when pieces like these come up, especially if the fad could become so fashionable as to drive Nintendo to retract a gaming device as fun, original, and full of potential as the Wii.
Honestly though, a lot of these incidents do seem incredibly fake or deliberate(or just pathetic), but the real issue is a concept that a lot of people seem to be losing track of, that of personal responsibility. Whether any of these are fake or not, the point still remains that when the Wiimote is used PROPERLY, then there are next to no incidents of damage.
Please game responsibly.
How are these idiots throwing these at their TVs and windows? Seriously. I have had my Wii since launch and have played a lot. Never has my slipped out of my hand...NEVER! This is getting rediculous. You don't have to throw your hand so freaking hard with tese things. I have seen videos online...and it looks like the person holding the wiimote is trying to kill someone...it doesn't take that much force people!
How long till someone commits murder with the wii-mote. I've already beaten my wife bloody with mine.
CHEERS!
I don't actually own a Wii, but there have been reports coming in from all over. Furthermore, the wrist strap proves to be a little dubious, and has broken on (according to polls) anywhere from 4 - 5 percent of Wii users.
True, most of the people involved were drunk, but still... :P
Let's see -- I'm 53 years old and managed to fling a Wiimote the first time I powered up *bowling* of all things. Nothing broken but the strap. But it *did* break, and I'm no9t asking anyone for anything. But I don't think all the press is BS...
In a shocking discovery, buyers of the new Nintendo Wii have been found to be taping their Wiimotes to actual sports equipment when playing Wii Sports.
More at 11.
Those Wiimotes are sure dangerous. They should be banned. And Nintendo should shut down, the US army should invade, man those Wii are weapons of mass destruction.
ugh.......greasy nerds....
How stupid can people be, its like you have a hammer in you hand are you just swing all willy nilly, no you should be more cautious of what the hell your doing.
Who are these greasy-handed morons who keep tossing their controllers?
I'd really like to know when responsibility died and when.
Can we call the Myth Busters in on this one?
why don't Nintendo bring back the "power glove"? surely the wii would be perfect for this?
http://screwattack.com/Flash%20HTML/ANN/Power%20Glove/Power.html
Engadget is so forgiving of Nintendo. Meanwhile, when Xbox Live Video Marketplace is laggy on their launch day, Engadget expresses utter disappointment and skepticism. When Sony PS3's delay and delay (but still manage to come out a few days earlier than the Wii), Engadget is up in arms.
Nintendo can't even get a tether right. Their whole setup is gimmicky.
Bias much?
I think it's funny that you get your panties in a bunch because engadget didn't scold Nintendo. First of all, I'd say this isn't a whole fault of Nintendo. Excessive force shouldn't be used playing the Wii, but Nintendo should've been better prepared for such a thing to happen. Hyperactive kids, drunks, and general morons will cause accidents.
Also, have you not been reading articles about Wii disappointments? Joystiq and engadget have posted disappointments. The fatal error with some systems during update, gripes with the file management, the way the wii remote has to attach to the classic controller (with nowhere to put it), lack of component cables at launch, etc.
This is a shared blame of the consumer and the corporation, so I would say that explains the leniency. XBLA not being operative? No one's fault but Microsoft. Sony failing to produce enough units? Sony's fault. Also, one can easily avoid broken windows and TVs. Play gently, get a new strap. You can't avoid a product shortage, and you can't avoid downtime, you just have to wait.
I guess my problem is that with Microsoft's and Sony's shortcomings, they were to be expected. With a community as large as Xbox 360's, of course their Video Marketplace launch is going to be slow. There's really no avoiding it. But in less than a week afterwards, Xbox Live is functioning at speeds even faster than before.
And with Sony's feature-packed PS3 system, is their production rate really that appalling? I find it commendable that they came out with their system as early as they did.
Nintendo, on the other hand, produces a graphically inferior system and boasts a next generation gaming experience (comprised of two IR emitters), and they can't even enforce their wrist strap properly. I just expected Engadget to overreact like they've done for the PS3 and Xbox 360, but they've simply attributed the glaring design flaw to hoaxes from the very start.
P.S. My panties are fine.
why should we have to do wrist jerks instead of full motion... if nintendo didnt want people lunging around they shouldnt have shown it like that in EVERY SINGLE COMMERCIAL
Get a grip
If only Nintendo had gone with a non-throwable glove design instead of a remote, things like this never would have happened.
CURSE YOU ASH
Seriously... what game are they playing when this happens. Wii Sports is probably the most motion-centric game out so far...
With Tennis, Baseball, and Golf, it's not like you 'accidentally' throw your club or racket or bat when you swing, I doubt this is happening in boxing... so that leaves Bowling, which, unless you don't know how to bowl, should leave you lobbing the Wiimote into the wall/ceiling above the TV, if anything.
I'm Waiting to see the x-ray of the wiimote stuck in someone's skull.
This is dumb. I picked up a Wii this weekend and can't imagine how someone could do this. And yes, I'm doing the full swinging/pitching in Baseball/Bowling/Tennis.
Uh, wall/ceiling? Unless you have an abnormally large lob, your release point should be a lot lower. I can completely see how bowling would cause a problem. Unlike swinging a bat/tennis racket or throwing a punch, a bowling ball is held, then released while the arm is swinging. It would see natural for at least a small percentage (and thus, probably hundreds) of people to let go of the controller out of force of habit.
This is just a dubious design problem. Strap or no strap.
I keep reading these reports and the stupidity of people amazes me.
Why can't they just hold on to the freaking controller? Do they dangle it from the wrist strap and just swing it around? Do these guys balance a PS3 controller on one open palm and push the buttons with their other hand?
You have fingers. Wrap them AROUND the controller. It's called "grip." It's a smart idea. The Wii was made for it. No one's to blame for this crap but the idiots who can't comprehend how to hold an object in their hand.
Do people seem pretty stupid when this happens? Well, yeah, kind of. Little movements are just as effective, as big sweeping motions. But the thing is that the Nintendo marketing pictures (with all those good looking people having the time of their lives) certainly don't look like their just slumped on the couch making little ten centimeter arcs with their wiimotes.
I dunno. I don't think people are staging these accidents, but neither are they totally without blame. Along the same lines I think Nintendo has to step up and take some of the blame too, for perhaps a too flimsy wriststrap, and also for not anticipating these kinds of accidents.
I call 'retarded' on this one. The fact that anybody on this site is actually attempting to excuse people and blame nintendo is freakin absurd. Take responsibilty for the fact that you threw the f#@!ing thing like an idiot.
Anybody blaming nintendo: let's all sue all the companies who ever made anything that could be flung like a projectile - would that make sense? It has a strap but you are supposed to hold onto the thing. And has been pointed out many times, the game action does not result in infinitely faster / harder the faster / harder you move the control. God damn - it's like back in the 80s when people first started playing action games on PCs and you'd see these idiots pounding on their keyboard in the naive belief that the onscreen character/spac-shop/whatever would respond 'more'.
No sir - i call 'retarded'. And anybody who actually wishes to show-off their idiocy by posting it on a website get's extra idiot points. The correct response to such a happening is shame.
"but the real issue is a concept that a lot of people seem to be losing track of, that of personal responsibility. Whether any of these are fake or not, the point still remains that when the Wiimote is used PROPERLY, then there are next to no incidents of damage."
"used properly" is an extremely subjective term. From the commercials I am encouraged to get into the game as hard as I can. I do not know about you, but when I play my game I get really into it (grip my controller tight when driving, and jump when shot). With the wiimote I will swing as hard as I can when bowling. Nintendo should have anticipated and corrected this. Giving them a pass is ridiculous. Turning a blind eye and fanboying this is even worse. If we get at them now before it becomes a bigger issue, they will fix it ASAP. And guess what, we all win if they do.
This is such a huge issue in this country: the fact that no one takes responsibility for their actions anymore!
So, you flung the controller so hard that you lose your grip AND the wrist strap breaks??!!
Sounds like someone needs to take care of their s**t!!
I have been playing my Wii since it was released and neither myself nor anyone else that has played Wii Sports has had this problem.
From personal experience, I can say that this is completely user error.
Right, and from the commercials, I can drive my jeep through a quicksand pit and out without any problem, and the PS3 controller can control my eggs and make them hit the wall and turn into birds.
Used properly is not a subjective term just cause you want it to be.
I'll admit, the Wii controller strap probably could be reinforced a bit better, and I'm sure there will be stronger wrist straps being brought out by Nintendo and 3rd parties for those people that want to be able to swing their Wiimote at 90 miles an hour, but the cases that I've seen and heard of so far have not been the result of shoddy design but of people simply using the thing beyond Nintendo's intentions.
After reading the first incident with the TV, I went home and checked the strap on my remote. It's cheap. I'm surprised they didn't bother to use the same quality cord that would be included with digital camera straps and stuff. This one is just thread. I just might go and take the strap off of my old CyberShot and use that.
Solution... two words: "Wii-mote Implant"
THATS THREE WORDS DUDE. TWO WOR5DS WOULD BE :WIIMOTE IMPLANT. LEARN TO SPELL
Wow :)
At what point is Nintendo responsible for the stupidity of the people waving these things around like idiots. I have yet to play with an wii (God that sounds wrong.) but just sitting here going over what it would take to actually do damage to a TV (Assuming 6-8 feet away from it.) a PDA, or even a window. You would have to be swinging the thing around like someone hit with an epileptic seizure, on crack, drinking jolt. I'd say 10/90% is the Nintendo to owner ratio of responsibility here. Nintendo's biggest problem was that they didn't hire morons to test the wii before they shipped it.
GET A PSP WRIST LANYARD THEY ARE DURABLE!!!! I HAVE SWUNG MY PSP AROUND BY ITS LANYARD HUNDREDS OF TIMES WITHOUT IT FLYING AWAY!!!
Really though the psp LANYARD is super heavy duty NYLON strap not some PLASTIC STRING like the WIIMOTES strap(if you could call it a strap). Better yet why not get a real console like the ps3 or ps2 or psp. All those beat the wii.
Why are you such a bully? Do you enjoy watching Timmah cry?
If I were Nintendo, I'd use these fools in a commercial to advertise the realism of their games!
On the same note, if I were McDonalds I'd also use the fat guy who sued them because their food was "addicting" in a commercial.
I should work in marketing. I'd make millions.
A few ways to keep the Wiimote from flying out of your hand:
- squeeze a stress ball to bulk up your hand muscles
- duct tape
- vicegrip
- contact cement
- c-clamp
- nail gun
- screws
Feel free to add your own.
Calling these Wii-remote throwing fools "retards" is an insult to retarded people everywhere.
This is probably the most exercise some of these geeks have gotten in years, so maybe they're just being total spaz-cases flinging the remote all over the place. Keep these folks out of the kitchen and away from sharp knives. Just hold onto the thing for crying out loud. Silly.
if the strap is crappy then the fault is lessened to the idiots swinging them
my question is why is that dude sticking his hand through broken glass??
Was he that heartbroken about his Wii that he had to slice his wrist immediately
It seems to me that the stupidest thing about this is a photo of some moron sticking their hand through a hole in a large pane of glass that is just waiting to fail and guillotine their arm off...
And an apparently single-pane window? Ever heard of insulation?
This is stupid. I had a decent sized party at my house on Friday (~50 people), and all of us were imbibing in alcoholic refreshments. Throughout the course of the night the wii did not get shut off, and 4 people were always simultaneously playing. Now, if the wiimotes had serious problems, I think the likelihood of one of the 40 or so people who were playing it, while drunk, would have been way more likely to bustificate something then the average user. I think it is more about user stupidity then any inherent flaw with the remote.
I'm sure someone has thought of this before me, but I haven't seen anyone post it yet. Come this afternoon, I will supplement my Wii remote strap with a cable tie.
I think the first one will fit the bill perfectly, but I might go for the third one, depending on the flexibility:
http://www.tach-it.com/Cable-Tie-Picture.jpg
We finally got our Wii on Sunday. I had been reading about all of these "breaking" straps, so just to be on the safe side, I re-enforced the original little string with a heavy duty nylon one. My wife and I have never even come close to tossing the remote. You have to be really flinging the arms (or be incredibly weak) not to be able to hold on to these things. Call of Duty, Monkey Ball, Zelda, Wii Sports all played with no incidents of projectile remotes. My guess is that over excitement plus not wearing the strap in the first place has caused most of the damage.
Granted the original string attaching the strap to the remote does NOT look very strong. I told everyone in line around me at Best Buy waiting for their Wii's to be aware of that. After actually playing though, I would find it difficult to rocket the remote through a TV or wall. Maybe I just don't flail as much as some gamers ;)
Anyone trying to blame Nintendo or anyone besides themselves for this kind of dumb shit should be shot. In the face. Twice.
It's not hard to hold on to the remote. Even drunk. You'd have to be like the guy in Benchwarmers that always throws the bat.
On that note... Possible solution: tape the remote and nunchuck to your hands.
If the insurance company actually COVERS this then they will have to start raising their rates! I doubt an insurance company would cover it of you tossed a brick through your own window.
I also do not understand why people are flinging their arms soo hard! You do not need POWER to use the controller, just movement!
I wonder how long it will take before some LOOSER decides that it is time to sue Nintendo for making them excerise while playing games. "Your new Wii system caused serious muscle strain!!!!"
Yay, I finally got my hands on a Wii long enough to play it well. Over T-day weekend my little bro brought his down to my uncle's in NY and my cousins ther had one of their own, so we had 3 remotes to get in some good 3-on-3 fun with the (surprisingly not bad) Rayman game and the included Wii sports demo. Although my bad back didn't give me much standing time, it only took me a few plays of each sport and the Rayman game before realizing that you really don't need a lot of force to play the games. Smooth, even swings worked just fine. Whipping it around like a spaz (or as Penny-Arcade would say, a toolbox), does nothing to improve play or scores. These broken TV's, windows, and anything else that might get clobbered, are absolutely NO fault of Nintendo's. It would be like suing Louisville Slugger because the bat slipped out of your hands while playing baseball and clocked the batter on deck.
Even if you're playing one those games like the ones in Rayman that require you to jerk both controllers up and down as furiously as possible. If I somehow let go of the controller and the wrist strap broke and it hit something fragile, I'd still feel like a complete retard. If anything I'd sue, who is it, Ubisoft that makes Rayman? Or at least produces it? Yeah, for making a game that actually encourages you to twitch faster than a OD'ing crystal meth head. Luckily I won those games through shear virtue of a lifetime of excessive crack, er, I mean energy drinks. But I didn't let the controller go! :-P
I am trying to look for instances of Wiimote-related injuries in other countries like Japan. Has anyone heard from the Japanese? It looks like most of the stories come from the US.
It seems to me that most of the news about Wiimote injuries come from the US. What about news from Japan? Have they experienced any wiimote related injuries lately?
This past weekend I was actually lucky enough to witness a strap break, mere hours after declaring bullshit on all the broken strap reports. I even went so far as to tug repeatedly on my own strap, demonstrating that there's no way you'd put enough force on it during normal gameplay. Turns out my definition of "normal" is not shared by all.
A friend was playing Wii Sports Baseball and getting a little too into it. He took a big swing and the wiimote flew straight into the wall (missing the tv and a window by about a foot), popping off the back cover and sending one of the batteries flying. The strap, still firmly attached to said friend's wrist, looked a lot like some of the pictures that I've seen here on engadget, but one side of it had frayed and something that looked like fishing line inside of it was exposed. The wiimote itself was in perfect condition. I didn't examine it too closely, but I didn't see a scratch on it, and upon putting the battery back in it just took a quick resync to get it working perfectly again.
It's definitely not the most dramatic incident report considering nothing was smashed, scratched, dented, or otherwise deformed, but it's at least one that I know for sure is true. The best part: not a single person present, including the offender, had any doubt that it was pure user error. His hands were sweaty, he swung way harder than he knew was necessary, and it just got away from him.
So there you go. Keep yourself and your friends in check, make sure everyone plays relaxed, and everything will be fine.
99% of the population has an average I.Q. of 117, 90% of the 99% has an I.Q. of 90 and below, Forest Gump character had an I.Q. of 70, It means 90 out of 100 people you meet are "Gumpish" we all seem to be surprised when people do "Stupid" things, Statistically its to be expected, we all would like to believe that 90% of people are smart but thats just not true. Everywhere I go there is someone doing something stupid, on TV or on the road, its everywhere. The only ones who dont know this are the "Stupid" people. I know its not "politically correct" and many of you will be upset by my statement, but it will not change the truth of it all.
Unless the tv is in front of the window (or within several feet), I have trouble believing a wiimote heads for the window instead of the tv, since that is where you usually aim.
I have seen so many post on this Engadget site of people doing questionable things?, from destroying PS3 to just making "As#%#" of themselves, sometimes it's funny, but most of the time it's depressing that we are all in this day not to show ourselves in a better light, Maybe this is the sign of the future and we have to get use to it, from not too smart tech gear to world events, I know we can look at the glass half empty or half full, if only it was half?, its not!, it's only 1% full and 90% empty and 9% average as its always been, so lets not all be surprised by what people do, I have seen people return tech gear to the store they purchased from because they destroyed or got harmed by their "Stupidity" not by the gear they were using, I have story after story that I could tell you and most I will admit they are funny but it is at the cost of "Stupidity". We are not creatures of the Obvious that is why most of the post here dont make any sense, only a small percentage, the rest we either ignore or debate online with the Low I.Q. individual as we make the mistake that we can change there mind or enlighten them in some way.
People who throw the Wii remote into windows or their head, they do it for the only reason that makes sense, They are clumsy or stupid or both, lets be honest, Anyone who is not stupid or clumsy has a little to no chance of this occurring.
give up Nintendo fanboys...geezz too many reports for it to be a coincidence and too many reports for it to be minor problem/special cases. Nintendo is a cheap piece of equipemnt made from cheap material.
I give it that it was a good idea with the motion sensing but only goes so far... I'd rather save my $250 and not risk smashing my $2000 TV/ window/ getting arm, wrist injured (btw i play tennis and badminton). It can be very easy to damage your joints if there is no weight to a rackets, its the same as over swinging or missing the ball but in the Wii's case..your doing it EVERY time...
How many people here agree that most are stupid, and that is the only reason why things like this happen?.
Even if the insurance company does find Nintendo to be at fault, they still won't cover it! Why?
Insurance never covers acts of God!
(This message was brought to you by The Wights who say "Wii!")
General rule of thumb should be: Do not do anything with the Wii controller that you would not do with the thing it is supposed to emulate. For example, would you do a full swing and let go with an actual bowling ball in your house while facing the television? Probably not. So don't do it with a Wii controller. That's how freaking realistic the virtual experience is. And it's true, the Wii controller is pretty sensitive so you don't have to make such exaggerated movements. I don't think any of these poor saps should get anything for their grief, except maybe a giant remedial lesson in STFU. If I attempt to hang a chandelier using silly putty, obviously only one outcome can be expected. The same thing if you chuck a Wii controller, or ANY plastic object of similar size and weight, with full force.
Personally, pure embarassment and fear of looking like a stupid swinging monkey in my home would prevent such a thing from ever happening.
So why is it that when something happens to Sony, it's totally their fault, but the mighty Wii is innocent of selling a piece of crap? engadget is the Fox News of the gaming community.
can anyone say "mythbusters"? i think im going to email them with these wii mote accident pages and ask them to try it out :D
can anyone say "mythbusters"? someone should email them and tell them about this and they should try it themselves :P
If an insurance company sees you claiming something as cheap as a glass window, they consider you an uneducated insurance risk and expect you to claim lots of other stuff... and they will raise your premiums.
Insurance may cover the little stuff, but only use it for the big stuff - the stuff you can't afford on your own. (And never let those guys who come up to you and repair your windshield chips for "free" and bill it to your insurance company near your windshield. That gets you flagged as an "insurance risk" and will raise your premiums)
I guess if these people could hold onto anything they'd be out playing real sports.
What baffles me is that this kind of people are complaining to Nintendo too. It's like blaming the games for the screw up your child come out to be. I can see the future, where wii remote accessories come out to "protect your tv" and crap and people spend 30 bucks on straps you can make at home. And seriously, if you make your drunk friend play assume the consequences that you may end up with broken things.
I swear I started saying the phrase "people are stupid" as a joke, but I've been meaning it more and more lately, it's dissapointing (and scary).
This is retarded, you dont even need to swing the remote in order for it to work. A quick flick of the wrist does the same as swinging it as hard as you can. If people are dumb enough to ruin $40-60 worth of gaming material by using it wrong, then they can go ahead. The wrist straps arent faulty, people just have anger issues.
i don't understand. why do people want a video of the straps breaking? what are the chances of an accidental snapped strap caught on camera? if i do see a video out there, it's probably a fake.
I think it's a plausible situation after this not being an isolated incident.i think Nintendo should educate players more in their manuals to use less force, and maybe reinforce the strap.(though highly unlikely) i can imagine holding on to such a smooth controller with sweaty hands. very dangerous. getting the grip skin is a great idea.