Wiimote Straps Not Strong Enough
November 26th, 2006 by Colin Newcomer in Business[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/RkdihGX7iWM" width="450" height="350"][/gv]
If you’ve read Nintendo’s various warnings, you probably know you should never play the Wii without using the strap on the Wiimote. However, what happens when that strap breaks? In this video, you find out just how fast the Wiimote can fly. There have been other reports of broken TVs and screens as a result of flying Wiimotes.
November 26th, 2006 at 1:48 am
He didn’t have to swing so hard.
November 26th, 2006 at 1:51 am
I’m wondering the same thing, why do you have to swing so hard? It’s not like you’re hitting a physical object. Just waive the thing in the air. The problems isn’t with the straps, but people taking the Wiimote technology too literally.
November 26th, 2006 at 1:57 am
Had he simply flicked his wrist he would have had the same response.
November 26th, 2006 at 1:58 am
… Wait a second!! That’s a bar!! Nintendo has attracted bars! I guess they have really reached everyone after all.
November 26th, 2006 at 2:04 am
got to admit though that one bit of string isn’t much protection.
November 26th, 2006 at 2:09 am
It’s not like the controller is meant to be thrown!
November 26th, 2006 at 2:32 am
I wonder if people are gonna start throwing their ps3 sixaxis controllers at the wall now? They don’t even have safety strings for those… idiots…
November 26th, 2006 at 5:19 am
I think its the booze man that shit aint needed lol he is over doin it alot
November 26th, 2006 at 6:10 am
I was a bit dubious about these “flying Wiimote” stories until it happened last night to me. Well, to my 17-year-old nephew actually. We were playing some Wii Sports tennis. He took a swing, nothing too intense, no more intense than what you see on the Wii commercials, and the remote slipped from his sweaty hand and smashed into the wall with a loud bang. The tiny string that secures the strap to the remote tore loose from the plastic tab that holds the strap and string together. It looks exactly like every other photo I’ve seen of broken Wii remote straps.
Smooth plastic, sweaty hand, physical motion, weak strap: this thing likely will fly from many more hands too.
This is a design flaw. Once Christmas hits and millions of new Wiis get pulled from the boxes, you’ll be hearing more and more about flying remotes. Count on it. Nintendo needs to rework the way this thing is designed and they need to do it pronto. The string may be strong, the strap may be strong, but the way they’re connected together is not.
Bottom line: if there’s a need to secure the controller to your wrist, the strap should actually be able to do the job it’s intended to. It isn’t.
I know I’m a lot more paranoid about people playing the Wii in front of my big TV now.
November 26th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
Owned.
November 26th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
Oh well, they have slip proof gloves available for it.