http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/ Engadget Comments for Nintendo addresses Wiimote damage issues: sends eMail http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/Dec 6th 2006 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/Jan 27th 2008 2:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/Dec 6th 2006 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/Dec 6th 2006 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/
On other side, of course, if one had managed to get a Wii - probably he isn't "any" idiot after all ;)]]>Dec 6th 2006 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/Dec 6th 2006 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/Dec 6th 2006 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/Dec 6th 2006 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/
Something about this whole situation still doesn't sit right with me. I'd be very interested to see what the average speed the wiimote would have to be swung at to break the strap is. If it's within the limit of what your average 6 or 7 year old can do then I'd say there is a substantial design problem afoot.
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But i also think that the wrist strap should atleast do its job...

i have the official PSP wrist strap that came with the case i got, and i can litteraly swing my psp off that thing and it has not broken.

I do it out of habbit.... and i dont care if its stupid... as it shouldent break, i do understand that nothing lasts forever, and it will eventualy break.... but not like after a few games of bowling and letting go of the control, that is ALOT lighter than a psp....]]>Dec 6th 2006 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/
http://greenboyroy.googlepages.com/wii-strap.jpg

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we get pretty into wii sports over here, but not once as someone let go of the controller and had to rely on the wrist strap to keep it from flying. ]]>Dec 6th 2006 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/
Unless throwing it out of gaming rage (I've seen it and it's stupid) or protecting yourself from an intruder (I've never seen it and imagine it's ineffective) there is no reason to release the controller - and no, I do NOT condone the throwing of controllers in gaming rage.]]>Dec 6th 2006 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/
just don't answer the door with a ps2/ps3 controller when the cops knock, or you'll be shot! :^o]]>Dec 6th 2006 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/
If anyone ever throws one of my Wiimotes so hard that the wrist strap breaks, I will kick them in the balls. Hard. Multiple times.]]>Dec 6th 2006 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're holding the Wiimote (as pictured) and take your thumb off the B Button, aren't you in essence letting go of the remote, because it's the only digit on the top half of the Wiimote?

I've only seen the Wii demo'ed in store, but wouldn't it make more sense to use the 'trigger' instead of the B Button? Can this be customized in the controller menu?]]>Dec 6th 2006 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/Dec 6th 2006 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/Dec 6th 2006 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/
nerdtastic, but you know you'd love it!]]>Dec 6th 2006 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/
you could mod a toy sabre to house the Wii remote. how cool would that be? nerd-tastic yeah - but you know you'd LOVE it!]]>Dec 6th 2006 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/Dec 6th 2006 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/Dec 6th 2006 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/
Once and once only have either of us "lost control" of the WiiMote and dropped it during bowling, and the only reason the wrist strap didn't catch it is because I hadn't tightened it and the strap had swung up over my hand. Consumer error. And even with my wild-n-crazy bowling action, all it did was plop to the floor a foot in front of me. I supposed it might have bent some carpet fibers, oh noes.

The thing is not that heavy. It would need an amazing amount of velocity to be able to snap the cable to the wrist strap and do that much damage to a television or a beer glass (referring to the links within the story). I mean, really.

"I keep dropping my toy and breaking it."
"Umm...then stop dropping the toy."]]>Dec 10th 2006 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/06/nintendo-addresses-wiimote-damage-issues-sends-email/
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