Oh wiily? -- Don't anger the Wii
Monday, November 20th, 2006 - 4:47pm
So while the 360 game of the week might be blamed for eating the console, apparently the Wii will destroy your house.
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For those too lazy to click the link:
"So there's this dude who was playing Wii Sports bowling, as his story goes, and his pal rolls a Lebowski and the next thing you know the strap breaks from the force of the swing; his slippery hands let loose, and the Wiimote flies like a missile and cracks his pal's TV. Believe it or not, having played Wii Sports bowling, this is totally something we can imagine. But you can take one of two positions here: 1) dude or his friend weren't using the wrist strap, as is recommended before every game starts, and the controller flew out of his hands and smashed the set; dude(s) cut the strap and put it on display for internet pity points (and possibly a new TV courtesy of an anxious Nintendo). Or 2) somehow the Wiimote strap -- which, for the record, we think feels sturdy enough -- does break mid-game and this guy really is out a 60-inch TV thanks to Nintendo's fabric engineering team. But we know one thing for sure, that's a helluva crack and something tells us it won't be the last."
This is a real f'd up situation and I would be in trouble with the wife if she came home and found a wiimote/nunchuck sticking out of the TV screen! I wonder if Nintendo will actually do anything for this!
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After making the rounds everywhere else it finally landed here as well. I know he says that he isn't trying to get anything out of Nintendo; but his story is pretty fishy. I just don't see how one could swing the controller in a bowling motion and accidentally let go while leaving enough force to break the strap and continue moving upwards with enough force to travel at least a few feet and strike the tv hard enough to leave a large crack in the screen.
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The protective glass on RPTV's is pretty tough. I can't imagine being able to crack it with some pretend bowling toss. I mean, you'd have to really wind up ... not to mention that much of the energy of the throw should have been lost to the breaking strap.
I call BS.
Shouldn't the controller be totally smashed from the impact as well? Hard to tell from the image, but Im thinking it should be in lots of little pieces based on the impact it must have taken to result in that star.
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I don't know about flat screen TVs, but old school convex front tubes are tough.
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How heavy is the wiimote? How sturdy is the strap material? Is it really conceivable that the momentum of a flung wiimote would shred its wrist strap?
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Looks cut to me.
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I call BS. The controller is light and the strap seems more than adequate to me.
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I'm joining in on the BS.
If it even weighs 8 oz with the batteries in it I'd be surprised. I can't see how he have made an underhanded tossing motion and severed the strap and hit the TV that hard.
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I call BS as well. I used to work for an AV rental company in Las Vegas and we've seen everything from falling plexiglass graphics, to drunk CES exhibitors swinging into 60 inch Pioneer Plasmas and only leave superficial marks. You would have to deliberately wing the remote at the set to make a crack in it. I've seen plasmas in roadcases fall off forklifts, and even saw a forklift slowly back into one that was wall mounted..and none of them had anything more than some deep scratching.
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I call stupid, for that guy thinking anyone would believe him. Everyone knows that gamers don't have enough strength to throw a remote more then 1/2 meter.
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I call shenanigans, because it's such a beautiful word.
Nintendo should make a movie in which they try to break a tv with a wiimote with all japanese martial arts possible... and fail miserably.
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I call BS as well. I played a few rounds of tennis and boxing with the Wii-mote, and the strap felt very solid and secure on my wrist. Plus, I saw my friends playing bowling and none of them ever went through the motions of throwing the ball hard enough to cause the strap to break.
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It shouldn't be too difficult to take a look at the strap to see how it failed: cut, stretched (from someone pulling and pulling to break it), etc..