"Nintendo Wii BREAKS my TV"

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daemon

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"Nintendo Wii BREAKS my TV"

Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:42:10 PM #28715 Perm Link

You have to swing your arm pretty fast and quick to do this.

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We brought the Wii home and played it pretty much nonstop for the past 24 hours. At 12:10am, during a slower couch-sitting game of Wii Sports: Bowling, my Nintendo Wii got angry with me. My buddy Troy reels back to roll his ball as he's done about 300 times tonight suddenly feels the controller slip from his hand. (THANK GOD for the wrist strap right?) Nope. Wrist strap snaps. The Wiimote flies across the room impaling my 60" rear projection TV square in the upper left corner. Be warned: Sweaty hands + faulty Wiimote wrist strap = broken TV.

Source and pictures: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2183346

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dexaroni

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Re: "Nintendo Wii BREAKS my TV"

Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:10:26 PM #28727 Perm Link

In response to daemon #28715

It is only a matter of time until someone sues Nintendo... A real shame.

I once threw a pencil at my monitor and scratched the bottom of it... if that counts.

Its not who a person is in the inside, but what he does that defines him.

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gagan242

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Re: "Nintendo Wii BREAKS my TV"

Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:13:02 PM #28733 Perm Link

In response to daemon #28715

that was quite close!

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dexaroni

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Re[2]: "Nintendo Wii BREAKS my TV"

Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:19:29 PM #28742 Perm Link

In response to gagan242 #28733

What do you mean close? The wiimote went through the damn TV!

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gagan242

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Re[3]: "Nintendo Wii BREAKS my TV"

Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:21:44 PM #28745 Perm Link

In response to dexaroni #28742

i thought it crashed on the upper left corner of the t.v., not on the screen, but on the black plastic around it.

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daemon

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Re[2]: "Nintendo Wii BREAKS my TV"

Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:28:36 PM #28751 Perm Link

In response to dexaroni #28727

Sue them for what? Making your hands sweaty hence the controller can become a projectile?

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Artemis Panthar

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Re[3]: "Nintendo Wii BREAKS my TV"

Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:06:26 PM #28757 Perm Link

In response to daemon #28751

No, sue them for a faulty wrist strap (which I assume was installed to prevent this sort of this) which ended up allowing the wiimote to crash into the television

People will sue for ANYTHING, even if it's their own fault. I mean, if they were smart people they wouldn't have even bought the first batch of Wiis because everyone knows the first batch of a console is pretty much the 'test run' and you will inevitably become the victim of faulty equipment.

Also, Gagan242 based on the size of the television, the rear projection and such things, I don't think the TV had much plastic around it - most of the TV IS the screen.

Huh? Signature? What's going on with that signature?

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Aron Schatz

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Re[3]: "Nintendo Wii BREAKS my TV"

Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:01:58 PM #28765 Perm Link

In response to daemon #28751

You'd be surprised what people will sue for. Seriously.

2014 is going to be a good year. More content, more streamlining. Be a part of history!

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Baldeagle1

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Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:37:09 PM #28830 Perm Link

Look at the bright side at least you know the controller is durable

:-P

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daemon

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Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:32:37 PM #28840 Perm Link

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Wiimotes are becoming finely guided missiles, or so the internets would have us believe. The second set of destroyed TV pics comes direct from Michaela, who tells us that her seven year old girl was also playing Wii Sports bowling when her wrist strap broke as well, sending the controller rocketing toward the TV at a glass-cracking lawsuit-inducing pace. Now, we find the Wii Sports bowling thing to be an interesting coincidence, but it seems a little peculiar that a seven year old could produce enough force rolling that ball to tear her strap apart. We're not saying this is the first in what could be a long line of TV-grubbing copycats, but we think the time is officially upon Nintendo to step in before a few hundred thousand straps recalled turns into a few million -- and countless more televisions get themselves busted up royal.

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/21/errant-wiimote-claims-second-tvs-life/

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but it seems a little peculiar that a seven year old could produce enough force rolling that ball to tear her strap apart.

That is one stong kid

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Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:12:25 PM #28847 Perm Link

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I meant to mention something like that in my other post, actually. It's inevitable. One person will have the problem, then hundreds will report the same problem...almost always involving kids because they're so innocent and will invoke sympathy. Nintendo really should've leaped to recall the wiimotes just to prevent a big disaster that will arise.

Huh? Signature? What's going on with that signature?

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Aron Schatz

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Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:52:24 AM #28853 Perm Link

In response to Artemis Panthar #28847

Nintendo is damned if they do, damned if they don't.

Perhaps a few times the strap broke like it was stated, but how many are people just waiting to sue Nintendo?

2014 is going to be a good year. More content, more streamlining. Be a part of history!

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Baldeagle1

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Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:01:48 AM #28858 Perm Link

Then in that case dont use the Nun-chuck style controler use the regular one, no swinging no breaking

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Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:06:01 PM #28878 Perm Link

Nintendo better do something about the wrist strap so not to make the Wiimote a projectile to avoid any lawsuits up their @$$es.

Atleast now there is this which could help decrease the chances of making the Wiimote a projectile weapon.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/24/wii-glove-sweaty-palms-be-gone/

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