Nintendo investigates flying Wii controllers

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Nintendo is taking a close look at the wrist-strap on the controller for its Wii console after several reports on the Internet about straps breaking, causing the controller to fly out of the hands of users, its president said Thursday.
Within days of the Wii going on sale in North America last month, tales of broken wrist straps began appearing online. Many were accompanied by photographs of damage caused by the flying controller, which in some cases included cracked television screens. Pictures have also begun appearing in Japan after the Wii launched there on Dec. 2.
One of the selling points of the Wii is its motion-sensitive controller. Users can swing it like a club when playing a golf game, or jab it like a fist in a boxing game.
?There have been reports, mainly on the Internet, about the strap breaking when you play the games very hard,? said Satoru Iwata, Nintendo?s president, at the Foreign Correspondents? Club of Japan on Thursday.
Nintendo tested the durability of all the console?s parts, but ?people are becoming excited ? beyond our expectations? while playing the Wii, he said. The company is investigating the reports, he added.
The Wii went on sale Thursday in Australia and will hit stores across Europe on Friday. Nintendo has sold more than a million of the consoles in the last month, and has managed to do what Japanese-rival Sony Computer Entertainment failed to pull off ? launch a new games console worldwide within a month.
Iwata confirmed Nintendo?s plan to ship 4 million consoles by the end of the year and 6 million by the end of March 2007.




http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/12/07/wii/index.php
 
The string they used to connect the strap to the controller might as well be dental floss. And how are people morons for over exaggerating the movements? Have you seen any of the Wii commercials or the videos Nintendo showed from the last E3? They show people "over-exageratting" and being "morons". Good job guy, defend your favorite video game system to the death.
 
Not a single person in the Wii commercials or videos from E3 over exaggerated the movements to a point where they would lose control of the remote. I can play every single Wii game perfectly and I will never lose control of the remote to a point where it leaves my hand.
 
I have the system, and I just don't see how it is possible to throw your control unless you just let go of the stupid thing!

The same idiots that throw the controller are the same type of people whogo fishing and instead of just casting, they throw the entire rod into the river!
 
that or they hook somebody else and still try to cast anyway


I'll admit to getting a bit careless while playing bowling, but thats about it, and I never worry about the remote leaving my hand.

contrary to popular belief that strap is a lot stronger than people think it is, it takes a LOT of force to get it to just snap like people have shown
 
Didn't the first report of a broken strap turn out to be false? I though I heard that the guy had admitted cutting the strap after the fact. I have had my Wii for a little while now and I still have not figured out how anyone could have thrown it so hard that the strap just broke on it's own.
 
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