Today's hottest game video: Wii-mote plus sweaty hands = SMASH

Nintendo never did nothing wrong here. No sir.

It's this idiot that's wrong.

Blame the customer, not the shoddy product, i always say.

so fake, those were some attention whores

#46

Spoken like someone who's never use it before. Some people really should keep their mouth shut until they experience it for themselves. You know, before you pass judgment... Oops! Too late.

#50

My comment seems really redundant now, saying it was faked. This is my first Joystiq post, I made it last night about 2 AM and then went to sleep. Who knew I had to wait for an e-maill to confirm my comment. So just disregard mine and listen to the other 20 people who said it's faked before me. (It was a Briliant, original comment last night, swear.)

You bunch of little girls, You don't have to swing that hard? Yes you do, that's the whole point of the thing. I don't have a wii but when I get one I don't plan on sitting on the couch and using my wanking wrist, I plan on getting up and swinging away like an idiot.

I don't get you kids....using excessive force is outside of what the product was designed for...we ALL have to sit through 57 warning screens so that retards like this understand how to use the product. Just like how it says do not exceed more than the recommended dosage on asprin containers. When people OD on asprin, it's not the pharmaceutical company's fault.

I can't believe all the blowhards on this thread blaming user stupidity. As I mentioned in my earlier post, this exact same thing happened to one of my Wiimotes last night. My nephew and I (and two others) were playing tennis and the remote went flying out of his hand and smashed into the wall. The wrist strap came apart where the string joins the strap, exactly like in every photo I've seen of broken Wiimote straps. He wasn't playing like a maniac, he wasn't swinging the Wiimote any harder than what you see in the Nintendo commercials, and we certainly didn't stage it. Good grief!

If you're going to add a wrist strap to something due to the possibility of losing grip on it and sending it flying, then shouldn't the wrist strap be designed to ACTUALLY HOLD TOGETHER UNDER EXACTLY SUCH A SITUATION???

This is like having seat belts that don't really prevent people from flying through windshields and simply blaming the driver for crashing the car in the first place.

Get over your smug attitudes, people. This strap has a design flaw. Period.

For all of you people who don't know what moderation is and who do not know how to supervise children. USE DUCT TAPE. Quit blaming the design. If you do feel the need to swing the controller at Mach speeds, prepare to face the concequences. Please, you people who have no common sense, return your Wii, PS3, Atari, camera, and anything else you can fit into your weak hands and buy a grip trainer and quite possibly a clue. AT SOME POINT, THE CONSUMER MUST TAKE RESPONSABILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS. WHY SHOULD THE WORLD HAVE TO CATER TO THE IDIOT. Maybe there should be a written test before someone can become a consumer.

The real amazing thing here is the durability of the Wiimote. Thank to you, Joystiq, for promoting how dependable it is.

Prime example of what PA would call a toolbox.

I would definitely agree with many here that sweaty hands are not the problem, nor are weak straps. Weak GRIP. My hands are almost constantly swetting, and when I play video games, it gets worse. I haven't even had a Wii-mote slip out of my hand yet, much less thrown it accidentally. The way this article claims sweaty hands are the problem, I should have thrown one or broken a strap by now.

I guess I'm smarter than that.

Oh my god.. it says RIGHT IN THE GAME "gently swing"

@56 Yes, there should be written tests for that, procreation and voting as well.

@55 Sure, this product is supposed to hold up, and it does hold up under proper circumstances. I've tested it myself whilst show-boating in Wii-sports, releasing the wii-mote to swing around my wrist and hit home runs.

Give me a break. If a car crashed into a brick wall at 190mph and the seatbelt failed, you'd probably go on a tirade about how the seatbelt was faulty, when the idiot shouldn't have driven that quickly. (see the connection? If not, you're immune to logic.)

All these things hold up when used properly.

This doesn't really have to do with the Wii Remote, but I didn't know where else to ask this question:

I was watching a review of some PS3 basketball game on G4 (X-Play) and they said you must move the controller forward or backward to do a certain move, or side to side to do another. Now, my question is... wouldn't that pretty much REQUIRE you to stay perfectly still, and not move AT ALL while playing this game, unless you needed to do the juke-move, or the spin move they detailed?

In other words, if you're playing games that use the motion-sensitivity for certain maneuvers, and you just move your ass back in your seat a little bit, won't it unintentionally do the move? For instance... say you're playing that particular basketball game, and someone walks in front of the TV... instinctively, you put your hands down to "get a better view", correct? So instead of slam-dunking like you wanted, you just successfully did a spin move underneath the basket.

All I'm saying, is that small, unintentional movements (the ones we all make while playing videogames) are going to translate into frustrated players. "I DIDNT DO THAT! WHAT THE HELL! I SAID JUMP!"

amirite?

Unless the strap itself breaks, then Nintendo cannot be sued

Thats what all those irritating Safety warnings are for, 1. to make sure that those who buy the Wii don't die; thus preventing them from buying more Nintendo products
2. To cover their ass in the case of lawsuit (although with the anti-game sentiment in public these days, a video-game company might not be able to get a fair trial)

busydoingnothing says:

"If this country weren't such a litigious society, I swear to god, common sense would be far more prevalent"

THATS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS ENTIRE TIME!!! It's dumbass, money hungry people like this guy in the video who ruin it for everyone. In the future everything will be lame just to keep themselves from being sued by americans. If I see this guy in the streets I'm beating him down with a wiimote and nunchucking his ass.

I'm waiting for someone to injure themselves playing a Wii game and suing Nintendo. I can see it now. 10 year olds playing baseball coming down with torn rotator cuffs from piching too hard, Wii tennis players with elbow injuries, Wii bowlers hurting their backs, Wii golfers with wrist injuries. Think it can't happen, just wait a few months.

this is like blaming your seatbelt for getting into a car accident.

Aww Man, This was just like how my friend broke the strap. I had about five people over playing the Wii and 360 when I see my friend try to swing a Home run out of the park and the remote slips and at that same time another friend was walking infront of the TV and it hits him in the head. This remote now is deflected up and its the ceiling and bounces back down...Now if have a broke wrist strap, an unlucky friend's head, a lucky TV, and a extremely durable remote because it still works fine.

Ugly retard. Lose some weight, get a haircut, get some fashion sense, shave and shut the fuck up.

in real life for tennis, I tried swing the racket too hard. It cause the ball fly out of court. It required to swing very steady.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. That guy is a retard, no wait sorry, I apologize to all the retards out there. Nobody needs to swing that fucking hard, I played Wii tennis sitting on a lounge chair and did just fine, feet up, just flicking my wrist.

I would just like to say that who the hell has any fun if you "gently swing." I mean honestly the game is meant to simulate tennis that guys was swinging the wiimote nowhere neear as fast as a professional. Do you really have fun if you use minimal movements. I just don't understand why you wouldn't want to swing the remote as hard as you can almost as if you were *gasp* actually playing the game.

Nobody said you have to swing the Wiimote at Mach 5 (you don't) and no one said the remote slipping from your hand should be a common problem (it isn't). But when the strap is too wimpy to handle the accidental toss at normal velocity (which is exactly what I witnessed the other night), then there's a real problem. The strap itself looks nigh indestructible, but the way the tiny string is connected to the strap REALLY sucks. It simply isn't designed to actually handle an accidental toss, from what I've seen firsthand. Nintendo would have been better off leaving off that cheesy little string entirely and running the strap through a larger tether point on the Wiimote. Or tapering the strap at the end so it fits through the tether point. The current setup is equivalent to a heavy nylon seat belt for a car (that simply can't be broken in most situations) with buckles made of peanut brittle. I don't get it.

A restraint is only as strong as its weakest link, and the string-to-strap connection is definitely the weakest link on the Wiimote.

i dont even use the wrist strap. LOL.

Maybe I'm just a crazy weirdo, but yes you DO need to swing the racket pretty hard in tennis - it isn't all about timing as someone suggested. I'm no pro, but come on - it's tennis not slapjack.

Now back to Nintendoland... maybe the guy just likes to make it as real as possible?

That said, I can't believe these remotes are flying out of people's hands like that... That would take a montrously lazy grip!

Am I the only one who sees that the string on that strap is NOT the string that ships with the controller? Unless, of course, Nintendo is releasing multiple wrist straps on their remotes.

That shit in the video was fishing line. It was plastic. It was not the string Nintendo uses. Use your eyes. You've just been had.

@66

Wait, I should've sued Nintendo for the Tennis Elbow I got last week on Wii Sports? Even though I already concluded it was my own damned fault!?

Seriously, though, I did get tennis elbow playing the game the first time... Actually, on that initial day, I had sweaty hands, whiskey in my system, was swinging too hard, and DID NOT break anything or anyone. I've adjusted my personal power output since, and haven't had one mishap. Watching idiots like this makes me more proud of that.

I LOL'd.
Everyone is at fault here.
Nintendo KNEW people would get crazy and they didn't test thier product properly.

The players are at fault for loosening the grip, not having much area to play and playing with sweaty hands.

My Wiimote strap broke and I wasn't playing hard at all (unless you count sitting on the floor making gentle wrist movements as vigourous playing). What do you make of that then?

I'm gonna die! I'm scared...A thief is going to use the Wiimote for kill me! :S! Please Help me!

Hey...Joystic assholes, do you believe wii (hehe,wii=we...you understand) are idiots? Obviously you make something for the Wii's strap fall down...If you'll have an IQ of 50, you'll know you don't need so much force to play Wii.Idiots...