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.]
