You might have heard this morning that Nintendo is recalling the Wii controllers, because the straps keep breaking while people are flailing around playing “Tennis” and the like. Apparently the straps are breaking while the player’s are waving their arms around, causing controllers to fly through the air, breaking tvs, lamps, and everything else within range.
Some guy setup a blog with pics of the carnage, here’s the entries dedicated to broken tvs, this is crazy:
Hmmmm – another way gaming can threaten your relationship/marriage – this time by putting your partner at risk of injury when you play. WarCrack move over – you have been superseded… :)
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Dec 15, 12:31 pm
I just love this. ^^
With other gaming consoles you get flaws such as overheating components, system freezes and only God knows what else! And with the Nintendo Wii… You risk hitting someone in the head with the game controls. It is kinda a cute flaw compared to the more serious errors of Wii’s competitor’s flaws.