It didn't take too long for the first
Wii-related injury to surface, and it was even shorter before
Wiimotes folks starting
breaking things with their wild flinging
antics, but when your product spurns the creation of an entire website devoted to users getting banged up when misusing the controller, now that's an accomplishment. Of course, it's probably safe to assume that at least half these Wiinjuries are nothing more than backyard boo-boos that folks translated into Wiincidents to get their 15 minutes of fame, but regardless, when Nintendo
sends out emails and
offers beefier Wiimote straps to those having problems, at least some of this stuff has to be
legitimate. First up is a high-heel-wearing dame who apparently dislocated her knee while going for the smash in Wii Tennis, but the remedy to this happening again should really be quite apparent. Next we've got a rowdy customer service guru who actually swung the Wii-bat so hard, it purportedly snapped something within his arm. Lastly, we've got a Agassi wannabe who didn't exactly pay attention to the overhead (glass) light fixture before serving an ace, and now he's reportedly got the bloodshed (and repair bills) to show for it. The moral of the story is that the Wiimote can be a
potent weapon and injury liaison if not used properly, but hey, we can't deny the humor in folks taking themselves out when going FTW.
Read - Dislocated Knee, via
JoystiqRead - Broken Arm
Read - Sliced Hand
Read - More Examples of Wiimote carelessness
posted Dec 16th 2006 4:02PM
IQ / sobriety tests before each game...it's the only solution.
Less pictures of dislocated knees would be very much appreciated. Ick.
Those people are wiitarded.
Oh for gods sake, these are all games where you SWING YOUR ARMS. Can't people get that right?
The guys in the G3 Creative studio brought a Nintendo WII in last week and
everything seemed to be going well until I had a shot and it slid out my hand and smashed the managing directors office window - EEK, any vacancies for creative director?
David Mac
http://www.g3creative.co.uk
People should really check their surroundings before playing, many TVs are going to get broken during the holidays :D
The Wii remote injury reports do not provide a complete picture unless you provide a proper point-of comparison. The comparison here would be with other physical activities, not injuries sustained from other video game consoles. And if the comparison is made with other consoles, it's an apples and oranges problem: repetitive strain from usual controller versus physical accidents with the Wiimote.
All I have to say is that with all these Wii related injuries it goes to show that there are a lot of retarded people in the world. I'm not talking born retarded. I'm saying they were born and after that they BECAME retarded.
The stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me. I have a Wii. I have yet to play a game that requires me to swing the remote so hard that I start knocking down the house. Heck, I play Wii tennis sitting down and flicking my wrist; I don't even move my arms.
Special kind of stupid indeed.
'spurs', not 'spurns'. Friday it was 'antithesis' for 'apotheosis'. Don't use ten-dollar words if you have a five-dollar vocabulary. Somebody get these guys a dictionary for Christmas.
Lol, Nintendo's screwed!
Real tennis rackets don't have wrist straps yet nobody goes public about throwing one of those. Apply a little common sense and ALL the said issues would have been prevented, combine that with the warnings in the manual, and even in the game (every wii-sports game starts with a warning) and the only reason left that some of these things would happen is one's own stupidity. What makes it more sad is that these people seem to feel justified in blaming Nintendo for it. What next, getting sued because the system is made of hard plastic and someone was hit in the head with it? Come on.
And they're thinking of bringing the Kingdom Hearts series to the Wii?
Like hell. xD