Official Wii Thread: Part 3

[bandit]

Warning! Urgent Wii Remote strap recall commencing!

"HANS GREIMEL, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 24 minutes ago TOKYO - Nintendo said Friday it will replace 3.2 million straps for its popular Wii computer game controllers after the Japanese gamemaker received a rash of reports that the device flew out of the hands of enthusiastic players"

"Nintendo will offer customers to exchange the old straps, which have a 0.6 millimeter (0.024 inch) diameter, for a beefed up strap that has a diameter of 1 millimeter (0.04 inch), company spokesman Yasuhiro Minagawa said. The worldwide recall is expected to cost the company several million dollars."

"People tended to get a bit excited, especially while playing Wii sports and in some cases the control would come loose from their hands," Minagawa said. "The new strap will be almost twice as thick."

"Request" your new strap(s) here:

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/strapreplace.jsp

It appears you can request up to four replacements. Straps will ship the week of 12/21.

And here is how strong the new strap is

http://www.nintendojo.com/fullfocus/...php?1166055790

Thanks for the link also. Got 4 even though I only have 2 remotes.

[bandit]

Here are the images of the skin

[SpoDaddy]

I just ordered 4 new straps as well; I'll probably be playing Wii with some pretty uncoordinated people over the holidays.

[bandit]

You're not going to get them by the holidays. I say people will start to receive them after the new year.

[SpoDaddy]

Hmm, not shipping until the week of the 21st and 5-9 days shipping time....hopefully I have an outside shot at New Years Eve.

Thanks for the pics Bandit; once I get bored with the Wii's asthetic I'm definately slapping one of those skins on it.

[bandit]

Thanks for the pics Bandit; once I get bored with the Wii's asthetic I'm definately slapping one of those skins on it.

They look nice and great quality. I havent placed it into the Wii stand yet. So I dont know if there would be any complications. But overall, I'm happy. I'll have a review on my site shortly.

[SpoDaddy]

That skin actually makes me want to not use the stand so the Wii would look more like an NES.

http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/14-12-2006-4300.html

"Wii more searched for than iPod and PlayStation 3
By James Orry - 14/12/2006 - 3:11pm GMT

Figures released by web analytics firm Hitwise make 'Nintendo Wii' the most searched for electronics item.

Hitwise reports that the for the week ending December 9, 'Nintendo Wii' ranked as the most searched for electronics term, with 'Wii' placing in third. Four of the top six places were occupied by iPod searches, and places seven to nine were filled by the PSP, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 respectively.

"Share of UK internet searches for "nintendo wii" surged up 147% last week. The term "nintendo wii" was among the top 100 search terms based on volume of UK internet searches last week and ranked as the fourth highest volume product search term, after "premium bonds", "car insurance" and "broadband"," Hitwise reported on Tuesday."

Electronics search terms chart - week ending December 9:

1. Nintendo Wii
2. iPod
3. Wii
4. iPods
5. iPod Nano
6. iPod Shuffle
7. PSP
8. PlayStation 3
9. Xbox 360

[burgundy]

There's absolutely no way any non-retard is breaking the Wii strap by accident.

[GohanX]

Burgundy is right, but I'm happy to get a replacement since my cat clawed the strap while I was playing Zelda one day, so it has a little hole in it. Damn cat.

That NES skin looks sexy, I'm looking forward to your install review, Bandit.

[Rumpy]

I recieved my SD card from Buy.com in 3 days using the free shipping.