Nintendo will replace faulty wriststraps
Nintendo has been forced to upgrade its Wii console after users discovered a major flaw - the weakness of a piece of string. The string which attaches the remote control handset (known as the wiimote) to the player’s wrist has been breaking. The wiihaveaproblem.com feature photographs of people with black eyes, bruises and dislocated knees as weel as broken windows etc caused by over-enthusiastic use of the devices. Nintendo announced today that it would be exchanging free of charge the straps on all 3.2 million wiimote controllers already sold.
After initially denying there was a problem with the wrist strap Nintendo announced today that it would be exchanging free of charge the straps on all 3.2 million wiimote controllers already sold.The weak point was identified as the 0.06m thick string which attaches the wrist band to the device. The string on the new straps will be nearly twice as strong at 1mm thick.
The upgrade is expected to cost Nintendo several million pounds. Nintendo spokesman Yasuhiro Minagawa said the original strap “turned out to be insufficient in its strength for some customers.”
He added: “People tended to get a bit excited, especially while playing Wii sports and in some cases the control would come loose from their hands.”
Source: timesonline.co.uk
