http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/ Engadget Comments for Nintendo now shipping beefed-up Wii strap? 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/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Apr 11th 2008 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/
Granted, the Wiimotes and the Wii systems oddly never seem to be harmed in the slightest during these incidents, but hey- I'm a conspiracist.

Chris]]>Dec 7th 2006 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/
You would be surprised how durable those Wiimotes are.. And how easy they are to accidently let go while playing Wii Sports...and how easily the strap breaks. It's already happened to me twice. The first time though the Wiimote was fine. The second time it happened the Wiimote now makes a rattling sound and the B button gets stuck. Hopefully Nintendo will hook us up with some of these straps]]>Dec 7th 2006 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/
I suspect that a homemade light bar hack is the next (minor) challange to conquor.]]>Dec 7th 2006 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/
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http://static.flickr.com/122/315441427_e7c33e6e5d.jpg

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On the other hand, unlike plasma TVs and the like, my wall doesn't really care if a wiimote is thrown at it.]]>Dec 7th 2006 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/
I suspect that a homemade light bar hack is the next (minor) challange to conquor."

Here's a 5-pack of sensor bars for 3 bucks:
http://www.discountcandleshop.com/product_info.php/products_id/150
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I honestly don't see how people can throw around their remote like they are. Is it that hard to apply just a little more pressure on holding the remote? When playing Wii Sports, it's not like you have press any buttons. It's all movement that just requires you to hold onto the remote.

Also if people moved the strap further up their wrist and tightened it, it wouldn't fly as far to gain momentum to break the strap.

Plus I don't think people realize you don't have to swing the remote crazily. All you need to do to get fast movement is quick acceleration and stoppage. You can do that in a short stroke, not a huge swinging motion.]]>Dec 7th 2006 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/May 8th 2007 2:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/
...or that these Wii Remote mishaps were just user error, which might further alienate the first-time or non-gamer users.


Not to sound arrogant but for the record, I have a Wii and have not yet lost control of my remote, even when playing Rayman which requires much more violent Wii Remote gestures.]]>Dec 7th 2006 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/
I've yet to have one fly from my hands or my friends' hands. Just squeeze a little and it's not going anywhere. ]]>Dec 7th 2006 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/
But wouldn't a thicker strap just encourage more people to freely use more force when knocking down those on-screen pins that require "HULK SMASH!" ?]]>Dec 7th 2006 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 8th 2006 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/
When I first started hearing these stories of people throwing their wiimotes I thought they were just not paying attention and being negligent, then it happened to me a few times, and almost everyone I know who has played it. Then I realized the breaking strap really is a problem, and Nintendo obviously agrees]]>Dec 7th 2006 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/
So just because you can control your movements, and actions, doesn't mean everybody can, no matter how many time you have to tell them, or give them time-outs. ]]>Dec 7th 2006 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.wirelesssensorbar.com/]]>Dec 7th 2006 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/

Once again, last I checked (and I haven't played real tennis lately, you don't throw the racket.]]>Dec 7th 2006 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/
Stop admitting the ignorance. I go crazy with baseball and bowling. I never even came close to losing the controller, much like I wouldn't lose a tennis racket in a real life game.

That said, my five year old son isn't "there yet" when it comes to controlling his grip and so on. He's broken a strap, so yes they do break. Hell he even dinged the base of my projection screen. The controller was unharmed. TV? Also... unharmed.

Everyone getting themselves up in arms and ordering straps are pleading guilty to "stupidity".

These pictures of TVs being pierced by Wiimotes is BS just like everyone who EVER thought it might be Nintendo's fault for any of this even if they did NOT include a strap. ]]>Dec 7th 2006 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/
Oh, and here's something to help you. I will not be buying a Wii personally, because I do not feel that the system is right for me. I don't feel like playing games about games that I can play outside for real. I get more exercise that way. But hey, thats just me. Plus I have always thought that it was a gimmick. And I am not going to fall into the hype.

Your turn.]]>Dec 7th 2006 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/
Is it just me? My hand's don't get abnormally sweaty, but I don't really even see that as causing an issue since your hand wraps all the way around the remote. Do people like to hold it with two fingers or something?

The strap is not built to swing the remote by. I have seen kids do that with PSP's and other handhelds, as well as digital cameras, etc. If I have any influence over them, I advise them to stop because "that's meant for if you drop it... don't carry it by it or it could break". Swinging/holding by these straps is not what they were meant for, they're meant as a backup. I suspect at least one of the poor poor televisions that got a wiimote to the screen got one because the kid was just fiddling around and was swinging the 'mote by it's strap.

But maybe I'm crazy. I am the one without the strap. "Oh god, he's a madman!"]]>Dec 7th 2006 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 13th 2006 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/I don't think it'll slip out of my hand but just in case, especially if you have friends coming over to play and swinging at a 46" LCD TV.
I'm put fences in front of the TV just so they don't get too close as well. :P

]]>Dec 7th 2006 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 7th 2006 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/Dec 8th 2006 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/
Heard of cropping? :)]]>Dec 7th 2006 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/07/nintendo-now-shipping-beefed-up-wii-strap/
For those who are looking for the remote, i suggest hitting up toys r us, they seem to be stocking up 2-3 times a week. I bought the console this sunday, and they sold out of their shipment that day. Came back 3 days later, they have another shipment. Bought 3 wiimotes and nunchucks, i guess im lucky. But the wii isnt that hard to get, just line up 9am at toys r us im sure you will get one. The toysrus at torrance, ca had enough for people till 920am. I think they had over 200+ unites that day. I got to the store at 840, and saw the line. I was depressed cause it was a huge line till the toys r us guy asked me if im getting one. Scored myself a wii. YAY. ]]>Dec 8th 2006 1:19AM