Mainichi News is reporting that Nintendo President Satoru Iwata admits that there may be a problem with the Wii strap, as many Wiimotes have flown into television sets all across the world. "We are investigating" is the quote from Iwata. "Some people are getting more excited than we'd expected." Also, according to the article, Nintendo may be upping its profits forecast.
Unfortunately, Nintendo was saying that they have no plans to change the strap as of now. I'm figuring it's something all of us launch day people will just have to deal with, unless they actually offer to fix our straps by sending the Wiimote to Nintendo. Thankfully, Nintendo seems to be acting quicker on this than they did with the DS Lite hinge crack problem.
[Update: Now even Miyamoto has chimed in, telling people to stop acting like Wiitards, more or less: "We are encouraging people to understand that you really don't have to be so excited, but rather you need to understand the control and then you're going to be the best player. We are looking into the situation to see if there are additional methods to encourage people to kind of calm down so they would never throw away the controller itself." -- R.S.]
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1:59 PM on 12.07.2006
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There may be a problem with the Wii Strap, but I fail to see how having a problem with a strap means there is a problem with the system.
The rest of the quote is :"We need to better communicate to people how to deal with Wii as a new form of entertainment."
That DOESN'T sound like them admitting a problem with the Wii. Perhaps you could fix your title.
It's simple, if you don't think you can play the games without acting like a spaz on meth, use some fishing line. If you think you can play it like a normal human, you are fine. The line is there to keep you from dropping the remote, not as a bungie cord for throwing it as hard as you can.
There's not an admission of anything in that statement.
However, the world is filled with idiots that don't understand electronics well enough (i.e. fix blinking 12:00 on the VCR) to understand how the Wiimote works. It's not friggin rocket science. Whole arm swinging = not necessary. Flick of the wrist works fine in 99% of the cases thus far. Idiots + beer + Wii = bigger dong contest = borked tv.
Seems there's not enough about the Wii that game sites can bitch about, so they're spinning everything they can into what looks like bad press for Wii, when in reality, it's just bad coverage by people who work with motives ulterior to simply covering games.
Huh?
Seems to me it was like 2-3 days from the time the crack issue hit the net that Nintendo was already offering free repairs. Thats pretty fast in my book.
As long as people keep hold of the controller and wipe off their hands when they become excessively sweaty the strap should hold fine on the occasional accidental release and not sent the Wiimote flying into expensive electronics.
And as for the DS Lite comment, that's because it seems to me that there was probably 2-3 weeks of reporting problems before Nintendo acknowledging that there might be a problem.
And do we really need to debate the difference between acknowledge and admit? The article is the big part.
I don't think Nintendo is really the blame for all those idiots out there but I'm glad they decided to make it stronger so we never have to hear about that strap again.
I thought the Wii was all about immersion. Using a tiny flick to throw a bowling ball or hit a tennis ball doesn't seem like immersion to me.
No matter how you cut it, the Wii controller was designed to be used with either minimal or excessive force... the strap simply isn't strong enough to work as a safety net for extreme use of the controller. If Nintendo just uses something stronger for future releases, it will make everyone happy.
If they had done that, some idiot would have accidentally strangled himself with the strap, then people would be bitching that it's too strong.
Crack story first posted on Joystiq 7/17
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/17/nintendo-ds-lite-cracks-on-hinge/
Nintendo's response on Kotaku 7/20
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/nintendo-capitulates-offers-free-repairs-for-cracked-ds-lites-188778.php
So there was roughly 3 days from the time this hit mainstream gaming sites like joystiq to the time they had a pulicized solution. Thats damn fast.
Since when do we need a corporation like Nintendo to caution us about the thickness and durability of a FALKING PIECE OF STRING?!
I mean any halfway coherent human will simply look at the FALKING STRING and will within 1-3 seconds assess the strength of the FALKING STRING and in short order adjust the amount of stress they apply to the FALKING STRING!
This is complete madness.
I mean have you ever replaced shoelaces on a pair of shoes? Have you ever sewn up a pair of socks? These are no-brainers. What? You think you shouldn't have to spend 4 pennies to buy the FALKING STRING? You shouldn't have to spend 8 seconds cutting the FALKING STRING? You shouldn't have to spend 7 seconds tying the FALKING STRING?
W.
T.
F?!
Bunch of bedwetters need some suit at Nintendo to tell them not to wildly swing their controllers because the FALKING STRING might break. Here's a kooky idea... if the FALKING STRING looks like it might not hold up under your spasmodic jerking, then replace the FALKING STRING or add an additional FALKING STRING.
Here's a website to get you started on modding your Wii controller...
With a PIECE OF FALKING STRING.
Douchebags.
How To Mod Your Wii... With FALKING STRING!
http://www.makezine.com/blog/
Pine tar.
Jesus.
WTF? Who sews their socks? Do you mean to tell me that somehow I'm an elitist bastard because I throw my socks away when they get holes in them? Is that what you're saying?
Well you can take your sock sewing ass home buddy, cuz that shit don't fly here. Here at the toid we pitch them baddies when they get holes in 'em.
Wait, that wasn't your point was it? Ok, what were you saying again? And what is "falking"?
It is also similar to gorshin or gorshining.
This may be the funniest thing I've read all day.
Thank You Lezbro.